Chelsea boss Frank Lampard admits he held back Billy Gilmour earlier this season.
Gilmour put in a man-of-the-match performance in Chelsea's 2-0 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup in early March, but Lampard insists he could have thrown him in earlier.
"People probably think I threw him in against Liverpool in the FA Cup, but he probably deserved to play earlier with the way he was training, and it was probably me being a little bit conservative with him.
"And then the minute he got in there on the pitch, he showed the replication of that training, getting the passing drills right, being the brightest in training, and he went and did it against Liverpool, he went and did it against the best team in the country.
"He has now set a benchmark, and after this break has to try and come back and go on to have the career that he has started to show that he can have."