Asmir Begovic has reflected on the first week back in pre-season training which culminated in yesterday’s game against Rapid Vienna.

The Bosnian played the full 90 minutes between the posts in Antonio Conte’s first match in charge of Chelsea. It followed five days of training at Cobham and Begovic gave his assessment of what life has been like since he returned to work after the summer break.

‘It’s been a good, hard week with lots of training and it was nice to finish it off with a match and get the cobwebs off,’ the keeper said.

‘We are buying into what the manager wants us to do. We are working hard to try and improve. We’re