Carabao Cup 2017/18, Chelsea 5-1 Nottingham Forest: 5 Talking Points

5. Chelsea's youngsters step up to address Chelsea's squad depth issues

Antonio Conte would like to add a domestic cup to his cabinet

As many as 4 youngsters made their debut for Chelsea today. Kenedy who, many thought, would not get many chances this season opened the scoring for the Blues from an Anthony Rudiger diagonal. Another youngster Musonda also found the net, much to Conte's delight.

Ampadu, Clarke-Salter and Sterling all made their first appearances for Chelsea's senior team.

If Conte can extract similar performances from his youngsters, he could very well start hoping for the first domestic cup of his managerial career.

Conte won the Coppa Italia during his time as a Juventus player, but he was unable to repeat the feat when in charge of the Bianconeri. The league was everything to the former Italian international.

Although the Turin-based giants claimed three successive Scudetti under Conte's tutelage, they failed to win Italy's sole domestic cup competition.

Chelsea then reached the final of the FA Cup last term, but Arsenal ran out deserved 2-1 winners at Wembley. All of which means that Conte is yet to win a cup as a manager, and it will be interesting to see whether he is able to rectify that record in England's junior knockout tournament this year.