Diego Costa to make Chelsea return, reveals Conte

Conte did not confirm if Costa, who has played 99 times for the club, would start against Hull. “For us, now, it’s very important for us to concentrate on the present and not try and see too far into the future”. I don’t know more news about this.

“Obviously it’s good to have him back”.

A shock to any football lover is the continued improvement of Chelsea’s David Luiz who unexpectedly returned to Stamford Bridge in the summer.

Both matches present stiff tests, with Liverpool and Arsenal desperately hoping that can close the gap to the league leaders over the next two weeks, but Chelsea have gone about their job in an impressively professional manner this season and it’s hard to imagine them losing back-to-back games, no matter the opponent. He trained with a fitness coach, not alone.

But it was no surprise to see him back out there.

From Liverpool’s perspective being seven points behind the current league leaders, they will hope for a Chelsea slip-up and want to reverse the outcome of the 2013-14 season and go onto win their club the title.

But after returning to the starting XI, his 15th goal of the campaign set Antonio Conte’s side en route to an eighth straight home league win, which was rubber-stamped by Gary Cahill’s late header.

The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder clashed with Cahill in the 13th minute of the game and was treated on the pitch before leaving Stamford Bridge on a stretcher receiving oxygen.

His team-mates could barely watch, and it must have been playing on their minds as the match continued.

The visitors continued to cause Chelsea some early problems and centre-back Maguire saw his shot deflected into the side netting before heading over from the resulting corner by Evandro. Yet a hamstring injury to Curtis Davies worked in Hull’s favour to an extent as they reverted to a 4-4-1-1 formation with Evandro supporting Hernandez.

Both medical teams rushed to the scene as referee Neil Swarbrick stopped play. “I can put my hands in the fire”. The pain in his back has gone, he has no pain in his back. Cahill doubles the advantage, flcking in a Fabregas free kick from the left, entirely unmarked, and Hull are really unlucky to be two down.

Chelsea soon asserted their dominance though and Costa had a goal rightly disallowed for offside.