Eden Hazard has taken a significant step in his recovery from injury after partaking in his first work with a football since suffering a broken ankle in June. Hazard has been forced to train alone at Chelsea's training HQ in Cobham while Antonio Conte's men enjoy the delights of China and Singapore as part of their pre-season tour of Asia.
But the Belgian would have been beaming from ear-to-ear after completing some basic drills as part of what is expected to be two more months of rehabilitation before he is ready to play first-team football again.
The 26-year-old suffered the injury in a freak accident while training with Belgium shortly after he helped Chelsea to a fifth Premier League title and a second since his arrival in 2012. He was originally expected to be ready for the start of their title defence but doctors ruled that surgery was required to fix the damage and he is now expected to be out of action until September.
While he may be missing out on the club's tour of Asia, where they face glamour friendlies against Bayern Munich and Inter Milan, he was at least on hand to welcome Alvaro Morata upon his first visit to the club on Friday.
Tiemoue Bakayoko, a summer signing from Monaco, is also present at Cobham and is undergoing his own course of rehabilitation following knee surgery earlier this summer.
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