Development Squad: Chelsea 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion

Callum Hudson-Odoi and Reece James made their long-awaited returns from injury for Chelsea’s Development Squad on Friday night in a 2-1 win over Brighton at Stamford Bridge.

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It’s impossible to bury that particular lede, as two of the club’s brightest prospects edged ever-closer to a first-team return, but this was about more than those two players. A sixth match unbeaten since the start of the season kept Andy Myers’ boys atop the Premier League 2 table, and they achieved it with the help of two rather less heralded, but no less impres...