Chelsea midfielder Lewis Bate has been named Premier League 2 Player of the Month for December.

The 18-year-old has featured in all but one of Chelsea's PL2 games this season, playing the full 90 minutes in seven of those 10, including the impressive three wins in the month of December.

Now a regular for our development squad, the England Under-18 international who captained our youth team in the FA Youth Cup final last season and contributed three appearances during the 2019/20 PL2 title-winning campaign is surprised but grateful to win the December award.

"I was shocked when I found out just because of the level of competition there was among the nominations. To beat those players to the award is a special feeling and I know there have been great players to have won it in the past. I'm over the moon." Bate told the official Chelsea website.

"There were some players from Chelsea who were left out of the nominations which I was quite shocked about. Tino Livramento, Myles Peart-Harris and Marcel Lewis all deserve a mention."