Development Squad: Milton Keynes 0-4 Chelsea

Chelsea’s Development squad booked their place in the last sixteen of the Checkatrade Trophy with a resounding 4-0 victory at Milton Keynes on Wednesday evening.

With manager Joe Edwards fielding a team including first-team squad players Michy Batshuayi, Eduardo, Kenedy, Kyle Scott, Ethan Ampadu and Charly Musonda against a makeshift home team, the match was never likely to be much of a contest, and so it proved. Batshuayi netted a first-half brace before Callum Hudson-Odoi was handed a third by a mistake from goalkeeper Wieger Sietsma, and Musonda added a fourth just before the hour mark in a second half where neither team pushed very hard a...