Levi Colwill is not the first Chelsea loanee to fall at Wembley in a play-off final. Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori and Marc Guehi have seen their loans end in disappointment in the Championship showpiece. All went on to play Premier League football the next season.
At just 19 and in his first season of senior football, the Cobham product was named in Carlos Corberán's Huddersfield starting XI against Nottingham Forest, and despite his own-goal separating the sides, managed to be among the Terriers' standout players. Corberán kept his defence of the youngster simple.
“I think if he doesn’t put his foot there maybe the midfielder would have scored the goal too, so I don’t think it was an easy action for him to defend better. I think he was doing what he had to do,” he said. “Unfortunately it’s true that we could have balanced the last line a little bit better, but these things happen in football. It happened to him when he’s 19 years old because he’s playing in a final when he’s 19 years old, because he deserves to be in a final at his age.”
