{"id":3464,"date":"2023-09-20T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/20\/read_news-phpnid48873\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:26:58","slug":"read_news-phpnid48873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/20\/read_news-phpnid48873\/","title":{"rendered":"PL Cup: Chelsea winger George scores first competitive goal for development squad\u00a0:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/43272George.png\" height=\"231\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"PL Cup: Chelsea winger George scores first competitive goal for development squad\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea U21s made a winning start to their Premier League Cup campaign on Tuesday evening, thrashing Luton Town 4-1 at\u00a0Kingsmeadow with a player of Nigerian descent Tyrique George on target for the young Blues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager\u00a0Mark Robinson handed a start to Academy Scholar of the Year for the 2022-2023 season, Somto Boniface, while George entered the game as a substitute in the 71st minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leo Castledine gave Chelsea the lead on the half hour mark and Dylan Williams doubled the advantage six minutes later as the hosts established a 2-0 lead, but\u00a0Millar Matthews-Lewis pulled one back six minutes into first half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Castledine\u00a0got his second of the evening with a minute of regulation left when he headed past\u00a0Horlick.to restore Chelsea&#8217;s two-goal advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George wrapped up the scoring\u00a0when he finished from close range in injury time to add more gloss to the scoreline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time the English-Nigerian winger has scored in a competitive game for Chelsea&#8217;s development squad and the goal came in his fourth appearance for the age group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George logged 158 minutes spread across four matches before opening his account for Chelsea U21s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In February, he signed his first professional contract with the Blues that will keep him at Stamford Bridge till the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=48873\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea U21s made a winning start to their Premier League Cup campaign on Tuesday evening, thrashing Luton Town 4-1 at\u00a0Kingsmeadow with a player of Nigerian descent Tyrique George on target for the young Blues.\u00a0 \u00a0 Chelsea manager\u00a0Mark Robinson handed a start to Academy Scholar of the Year for the 2022-2023 season, Somto Boniface, while George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}