Five experienced players Antonio Conte could sign before close of summer window

The Italian says he will review the defeat with his players in order to prepare the White Hart Lane game in the best possible way.

“Thankfully it sat up nicely and ended up in the back of the net”.

The Blues won the title at a canter last season but will now also have to compete in the Champions League after missing out on a place in Europe last term.

But Juventus have so far held firm in the determination to keep left-back Alex Sandro, despite Chelsea expressing a willingness to pay £60m for the Brazilian. At the back, Rudiger and Christensen could be flanked by Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso with Luiz and Kante, sitting just in front.

It began to unravel before the quarter-hour mark when Cahill was shown a straight red card for his lunge at Defour before Fabregas was booked for sarcastically clapping Pawson. However, regardless of how much has been spent, if they have done their recruitment right then City could be in for an outstanding year, they just need to go and prove it. They have lost all three games, and Conte was clearly frustrated afterwards.

Sacrificing the extra attacker came with its own problems, as when they moved further up the field there were fewer forward passing options centrally.

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With an extra man, Burnley soon went ahead through Sam Vokes.

The Spaniard, a £58million signing from Real Madrid, scored one and had a second goal disallowed and was a thorn in Burnley’s side for the entire 31 minutes he was on the pitch. After Morata’s influence on the last 30 minutes of the Burnley game he has to start, with Batshuayi pushing out side to cover for Hazard and still provide a good threat. While Chelsea were honourable in sanctioning Matic’s and Chalobah’s requests to leave, the sensible thing would have been to make their moves contingent on ample reinforcements being brought in first. “To win at Stamford Bridge was great but we that picking up points on the road is something that we have to add to our game”.