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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

Chelsea wonderkids spotted in training as Reece James return date is revealed ahead of Morecambe

Chelsea have been doing their final preparations for Sunday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Morecambe.

The Blues, who were runners-up in the competition last season, will go into the game at Stamford Bridge hoping to return to winning ways after losing 3-1 at home to Manchester City last weekend.

As the two clubs are separated by three divisions, Chelsea will be expected to overcome the League Two opposition on Sunday afternoon.

Ahead of the game in west London, the first-team squad have been put through their paces at the club's training base in Cobham by Frank Lampard and his coaching staff.

And there's a chance that some of the club's most promising youngsters could play some part on Sunday.

Speaking ahead of the game, Lampard revealed that Tino Anjorin, Tino Livramento, Jude Soonsup-Bell, Lewis Bate and Henry Lawrence are all in contention for some first-team minutes.

"We've called up both Tinos (Anjorin and Livramento), Jude (Soonsup-Bell), who has been scoring goals in the youth team. We’ve called up Lewis Bate who has trained with us before and Henry Lawrence," Lampard explained.

"It’s a great experience for them and it’s something I’ve wanted to do and last season was able to do pre-restart.

"It helps training because it’s really important to have competitive training and having young players enables you to be really competitive without killing the other players physically between games."

As seen in the images below, all five wonderkids were spotted in Friday's session at Cobham.

One of three notable absentees from the training session was Reece James.

He along with Andreas Christensen and N'Golo Kante will miss Sunday's game, but Lampard has revealed that the right-back is set to return to full training very soon.

"Reece James is out for the game. He will train with us tomorrow but the game will come too early," Lampard said in his pre-match press conference on Friday.

"Andreas Christensen and N’Golo Kante, too.

"Kante has a minor hamstring injury so will miss this game and is suspended for Fulham next Friday so we’ll get him right."

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