Hat-trick hero Loftus-Cheek shows Sarri he can still make the Chelsea gradeIt

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                            Loftus-Cheek

 The England midfielder has emerged as a symbol of the Blues' failure to bring through academy products into their first team, but all is not lost yet
Six successive FA Youth Cups, back-to-back UEFA Youth League titles and a quadruple at Under-18 level - Chelsea's academy cannot be matched in the current youth football landscape. And yet Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been hoisted as a symbol of everything wrong with the path to the first team at Stamford Bridge.
An occasional starter for England during their run to the semi-finals of the World Cup, many expected this to be the campaign that Loftus-Cheek finally broke down the door and became a fixture in the Chelsea first team, able to thrive under the tutelage of Maurizio Sarri.
His match-winning performance against BATE, though, was just his second start of the campaign, both of which have come in the Europa League. Injuries have stalled his development a little since his successful loan spell at Crystal Palace, but the arrival of Mateo Kovacic and the form of Ross Barkley have ensured any opportunities were few and far between.

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