Chelsea Under-23s 2 Portsmouth 0: RECAP as swathe of triallists feature at home of Premier League outfit

Pompey continue their pre-season warm-up at Premier League Chelsea’s Cobham base tonight (6pm).
Pompey play Chelsea Under-23s tonight in a pre-season friendly/Pompey play Chelsea Under-23s tonight in a pre-season friendly/
Pompey play Chelsea Under-23s tonight in a pre-season friendly/

The Blues expect to have a mix of first-team players feature this evening against the Londoner’s under-23 side.

The match follows the 1-1 draw at Luton Town on Saturday with games against Peterborough and Bournemouth remaining before the season starts at Fleetwood on August 7.

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Chelsea Under-23 2 Pompey 0

Key Events

  • Mix of triallists and first-teamers to feature
  • Five triallists start for Pompey
  • Mothersille opens scoring 78 min
  • Mothersille with the second 85min

Pompey: Bazunu, Johnson, Mnoga, Triallist, Masampu, Goss, Hackett-Fairchild, Dixon-Bonner, Triallist, Jacobs, Harrison

Players are out and we’re underway at Cobham

We’ve caught a glimpse of Peterborough keeper Dan Gyollai, who is present tonight.

Things a big different tonight - we haven’t been able let into the training ground until 20 minutes before kick-off! Will do our best to relay team news as we find out

We’re in place at Cobham

Welcome to tonight’s live blog

Pompey expected to have a mix of first-team players feature this evening

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