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YOUTH CUP REPORT: NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3 CHELSEA 4
Posted on: Thu 23 Feb 2012
Our Academy Under 18 side capped a magical fightback at the City Ground to beat Nottingham Forest 4-3 after going in at half time 3-0 down.
Lucas Piazon hauled us back into the game, before an Islam Feruz brace brought us level. Substitute Alex Kiwomya put the seal on a memorable night with the winner three minutes from time.
Following an impressive performance by his side in last week's fifth round victory over West Ham United, Blues manager Adi Viveash made only one change, with Reece Mitchell replacing Anjur Osmanovic who was the only member of the starting 11 from last week to feature in Saturday's league defeat against Southampton.
The first real opportunity of the game came when Lucas Piazon and Amin Affane exchanged clever passes just inside the Nottingham Forest half. The Brazilian advanced unchallenged into the penalty area but he was nudged off the ball by Jamaal Lascelles just as he was about to pull the trigger.
Jamal Blackman, who travelled with the first team to Naples for yesterday's game, had to be alert to save well from a curling Ben Osborn effort moments later at the other end, while from the resulting goal kick, Piazon was again allowed to run from deep only to see his left-footed strike bounce back off the post.
After a cagey opening few minutes, the game had really opened up and it was end-to-end stuff with both teams looking to gain an early advantage.
A goal had been coming, but unfortunately for the Blues it was the home side who broke the deadlock in the 14th minute, when the ball sat up perfectly for midfielder David Morgan who unleashed an unstoppable drive past the outstretched Blackman from outside the penalty area.
The goal appeared to galvanise the home side and we were struggling to retain possession as they set about us, refusing to let us settle on the ball.
Reece Mitchell had a great opportunity to equalise but blazed high over the bar from inside the box, while the goalscorer Morgan tested Blackman from long-range with a dipping free kick.
It was Mitchell in the thick of the action shortly after again when a wayward throw-in ran into his path only yards from goal, only for the youngster to lose his footing at the critical moment allowing Forest to clear the danger.
Adam Nditi became the first player to enter the referee's book when he was shown a yellow card for a late lunge on Kieran Wallace, and from the resulting free kick the hosts doubled their advantage.
An inswinging delivery by Jack Blake was met by Lascelles who directed it goalwards, only for Nathan Ake to get the final touch and put the home side in control of the tie in the 36th minute.
It had been a poor first half display, and while Piazon almost hauled us back into the game straight from the restart, unbelievably it was 3-0 four minutes before the break.
Again, the Blues failed to clear a set-piece delivery, and when the ball fell to Jordan Palmer-Samuels with his back to goal, the forward showed fantastic improvisation to back-heel his effort into the bottom corner.
Archange Nkumu replaced Mitchell at the break in a tactical switch by Viveash, with the substitute moving into central defence and Nathaniel Chalobah bolstering a midfield that had been overrun in the first half.
The switch paid off almost instantly after a steady flow of Blues pressure. John Swift cleverly released Piazon (pictured below), who skilfully came back inside his marker before firing past Dimitar Evtimov at the near post to give us some hope.
Nditi had a wonderful chance to really turn the game on its head a couple of minutes later but, following an impressive surging burst he lacked the composure when it mattered most and sent his shot high over the bar.
It was a decent response, however, but while we poured forward at every given opportunity, gaps at the back inevitably began to open up, and Wallace almost put the game out of reach only to drag his strike inches wide of Blackman's left-hand post.
With just over 20 minutes remaining we really were back in the game, as the ball fell into the path of Islam Feruz (pictured below) following a quick break, he opted against releasing Lewis Baker and fired into the bottom corner to silence a fervent home crowd and send the travelling away support delirious.
We began to impose ourselves on the game more as we sensed an opening, and we didn't have to wait long to be rewarded.
Kane's corner from the right evaded everybody, and it was the smallest player on the pitch Feruz who headed home from close-range to cap an amazing, gutsy fightback from Viveash's youngsters.
Sensing the initiative was ours, Viveash replaced Amin Affane with the fresh legs of Alex Kiwomya, and soon after we were almost in front, but when Feruz reacted quickest to meet a deflected Kane strike, he could only shoot straight at Evtimov from point-blank range.
As the clock ticked down, the game ebbed and flowed with both teams looking to steal a late winner and set up a two-legged semi-final meeting with Manchester United or Charlton, and it was that man Feruz coming close again, ironically with another header, but this time it sailed wide.
With only three minutes left to spare, though, our comeback was complete. Evtimov failed to hold Lewis Baker's strike, and the substitute Kiwomya showed fantastic predatory instincts to pounce and stab home from close-range, with the manager understandably struggling to contain his emotions on the sidelines.
Forest threw everything at us in the dying minutes as they looked to force extra-time, but some desperate, resolute defending ensured we held on to seal the most memorable of victories.
The match epitomised the old adage of football being a game of two halves, and Viveash admitted that a tactical switch at the break had played a major part in the turnaround, while paying tribute to the eventual matchwinner.
'It's another great night and this has been the most unbelievable of them all. In the first half we were totally dominated in midfield, we were outfought and they were first to every ball, they had great drive about them, real belief and we couldn't cope with it, simple as that,' he said.
'We went in at half time 3-0 down, staring down a barrel. But you can go one of two ways, you can either make a game of it or you can get a hiding. I know my players and I know they will have been disappointed with how they played [in the first half] and I told them that. A few harsh words needed to be said, it hasn't been needed so far in this competition but it was tonight and that's my job.
'The three chances we carved out in the first half gave me belief, I said we needed a goal in the first ten minutes and we scored one in seven. We could have had three before that, the change to get Archange on and push Chalobah into midfield gave us power and we started to win tackles, we were winning all the 50-50s, they were on the back foot, it's a tidal wave, that's what goals do, they give you belief.
'Obviously the second and third are quality goals, then we had Alex Kiwomya who's a great sub to have, his pace is a tremendous threat, he can play out wide or down the middle, he got 20 minutes for the reserves on Monday and that was vital for his preparation. It's a great night for him, he comes on and gets the winner but I was very pleased with the way we switched the play as that's what we spoke about in the build-up.'
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Jamal Blackman; Todd Kane, Nathaniel Chalobah (c), Nathan Ake, Adam Nditi; John Swift, Lewis Baker (Alastair Gordon 89); Reece Mitchell (Archange Nkumu h/t), Amin Affane (Alex Kiwomya 73), Lucas Piazon; Islam Feruz
Unused substitutes: Mitchell Beeney, Anjur Osmanovic
Nottingham Forest (4-4-2): Dimitar Evtimov; Lawrence Gorman, Jamaal Lascelles, Kieran Fenton, Jack Andrews; Michael Holligsworth (Wilfried Gnahore 84), David Morgan, Jack Blake (Derrick Otim 89), Ben Osborn; Jordan Palmer-Samuels, Kieran Wallace
Unused substitutes: Jordan Smith, Elliott Ackroyd, Aristote Kamaneno
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