City's Academy side travelled down to London on Saturday morning but came away from Chelsea empty-handed after two second-half goals. With Joe Lewis away on England duty, and Shane Herbert sidelined through injury, Sammy Morgan drafted Aaron Osborne back into the starting line-up, while, starting his second game on the substitutes' bench for the Under-19s, was schoolboy Chris Martin, who has been banging goals in for Gary Butcher's Under-15 side. There was little to choose between both teams during the first 45 minutes, but the two best chances fell to the Canaries, the first coming when a cross from Nicky Howell fell to Andrew Fisk, who had worked himself into a great position only for the schoolboy to see his header go just wide of the target.

Jake Osborne put in a man of the match performance for Norwich

Shortly after, the attack came down the left flank and it was a cross from Robert Eagle that Danny Crow, who was on target for the reserves in midweek, side-footed inches wide. Into the second half, and the home side took the lead on the hour mark, when the City defence was caught in possession with Osborne being beaten from close range. Ten minutes later and Chelsea doubled their lead when City failed to deal with the ball bouncing around the six-yard box and Osborne stood no chance with a close-range volley. Morgan introduced Martin for his first taste of Under-19 action but by this time there was no way back for Norwich. City Line-Up: A. Osborne, Willis, Halliday, J Osborne, Watts, Howell (Martin 80), Howlett (Cave-Brown 75), Fisk, Blackburn, Eagle, Crow. Subs not used: Muddel, Spillane. Top Canary: Jake Osborne. Report courtesy of John Landamore.