Although Marcus Rashford stole the headlines, Lewis Baker, Nathaniel Chalobah and Ruben Loftus-Cheek showcased their vast potential on Tuesday.
You might have heard that Chelsea’s record of bringing youth team potential into the promised land of the first-team is rather poor. After all, it’s a long time since a fresh-faced John Terry rose through the ranks at Stamford Bridge.
Despite successive UEFA Youth Cup titles, four FA Youth Cup triumphs in the last five years, Chelsea’s next generation are still finding their path to the first-team blocked, with endless loan spells at Vitesse Arnhem often their only taste of regular action.
Therefore, although Marcus Rashford stole the show with a debut hat-trick, England Under-21’s 6-1 demolition of Norway raised more questions about Chelsea’s apparent reluctance to give their best and brightest even the smallest slither of an opportunity.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek has threatened a first-team berth for two years now without ever breaking through, while Nathanial Chalobah and Lewis Baker have had nine loan spells between them in their short careers.
They all scored on Tuesday evening and Twitter was on hand to pass verdict.
It seems rather pertinent to sum this up with one very good point…
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