What Chelsea's future 'England captain' did to prove he is ready to step up for Thomas Tuchel

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.”

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The moment may define many people's perception of Colwill but they would be wrong. The England under-21 international more than proved his credentials over the course of 90 minutes and beyond. The youngster was firmly in a battle against Brennan Johnson but generally handled himself well. It was following the full-time whistle that his wider qualities shone, however. In a situation where he good easily be down on himself for his role in the defeat, Colwill's concern was with the team.

While he was embraced by fellow youngster Ryan Schofield at Wembley, the defender could be seen comforting