Ben Elliott Scores In Chelsea’s 2-1 Defeat Against Palace

Despite going ahead early on, the young Blues lost at Kingsmeadow on Monday evening. Ben Elliott gave Chelsea the lead but goals either side of half-time gave the young Eagles the win.

The development squad had a plethora of chances in Tuesday’s game but just could not find the conviction needed to take advantage.

The deadlock was broken initially and impressively as fresh from his call-up to the Cameroon senior team, Ben Elliott struck a shot which found the bottom corner of the net after a good pass from Omari Hutchinson. It was Elliott’s third goal in 19 appearances for the youth set-up.

Zak Sturge and Mason Burstow had chances to double Chelsea’s lead, but the young Eagles equalised through Ademola Ola-Adebomi who put the ball past Gabriel Slonina after a cute through ball to him in the box.

Harvey Vale on the stroke of the half-time whistle hit the post as the young blues had multiple chances to regain the initiative, but could not find the finish needed.

The second period followed a similar theme, as Chelsea continued to create chances but finding the goal needed to go in front was proving difficult.

Palace capitalised on Chelsea’s missed chances and in their first attack of the second period, Victor Akinwale was awarded a penalty after being tripped by Sturge and Jack Wells-Morrison converted the resulting penalty. It proved to be the winner.