Loads of Chelsea stars are that includes for his or her international locations throughout the worldwide break, with Pedro Neto and Marc Cucurella each enjoying within the Nations League on Thursday night time and the likes of Reece James and Levi Colwill are concerned in Thomas Tuchel’s first squad for England.
Cole Palmer has pulled out of the Three Lions squad, in the meantime, staying again at Cobham to get well from his harm setback, with the hope of being obtainable for Chelsea’s first recreation again towards Tottenham on April third.
But it surely isn’t simply the senior stars who’re that includes for his or her international locations on worldwide obligation this week, as 4 academy graduates all featured for England U19 this week of their 2-0 win over Wales.
Chelsea’s U19 England stars
Three of Chelsea’s academy stars began within the recreation towards Wales, with Josh Acheampong captaining the aspect, enjoying as a left-sided centre-back, which is not his pure place.
Kiano Dyer began in midfield alongside Newcastle star, Lewis Miley and Tyrique George began on the left.
George and Acheampong have each performed a number of instances for the primary crew this season, with the 19-year-old winger making 17 appearances this season, offering 4 assists and totalling 713 minutes performed.
In the meantime, Acheampong has made eight appearances, totalling 421 minutes performed.
However there was a fourth Cobham star who featured towards Wales in England’s U19 European Championship Qualifiers, who many followers are already very enthusiastic about, because of the excessive reward the teenager is already incomes at such a younger age.
Chelsea’s personal Osimhen & Aguero hybrid
Chelsea’s Shumaira Mheuka got here from the bench towards Wales for England U19 on Wednesday night time, approaching for Manchester United’s Ethan Wheatley – who scored the opposite objective in England’s 2-0 victory – and netting within the 84th minute.
Mheuka has been labelled “Cobham’s Most interesting” by expertise scout Jacek Kulig, stating the 17-year-old ahead is a “jewel“.
The younger striker has good energy to provoke contact, typically having the ability to journey challenges and bully defenders, even when they’re barely larger than him. However he additionally has misleading agility, particularly contained in the field, typically crafting himself an additional half-yard of house to get photographs off, very like Sergio Agüero.
This distinctive skill to shift the ball in tight areas is extraordinarily worthwhile for strikers within the Premier League, as they can create their very own capturing alternatives, fairly than counting on others to create probabilities for them, once more harking back to Aguero, who was the grasp of making his personal capturing angles.
While Mheuka has the ball-manipulation high quality of an Aguero-type striker contained in the field, he additionally possesses these bodily traits of a Victor Osimhen, utilizing his physique to protect the ball and bully defenders contained in the field. Chelsea has been linked with a transfer for Osimhen in latest home windows, however Mheuka’s improvement may nicely save them a giant chunk of change.
The 17-year-old remains to be growing bodily, in addition to technically, and if he continues to develop, including some further peak to his benefit, his already robust base layer of physicality may turn out to be much more helpful, making Mheuka an enormous field presence within the Premier League.
Shim Mheuka vs Copenhagen efficiency |
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Stat |
Mheuka |
Minutes |
45 |
Touches |
9 |
Correct Passes |
4/5 |
Floor Duels Gained |
0/1 |
Aerial Duels Gained |
0/2 |
Stats taken from Sofascore |
The 17-year-old striker made his first full debut, beginning towards Copenhagen within the UEFA Convention League, earlier than being subbed off at halftime for Christopher Nkunku. Mheuka was unable to get himself concerned, barely getting any service, resulting in his three misplaced duels and simply 9 touches in 45 minutes.
Mheuka has made 42 appearances for Chelsea’s academy throughout the U18 and U21 sides, scoring 19 targets, offering 5 assists and totalling 2,593 minutes performed. He has additionally netted ten instances for numerous England age teams, making 20 appearances from U15-U19.
While he’s nonetheless younger and growing, many have the fitting to be enthusiastic about Mheuka, who has all of the attributes of a superb ahead, with the bodily ranges required to play within the Premier League already growing properly.

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