Tiemoue Bakayoko making an instant recovery from his knee injury and coming up to speed in zero time in Contes system would be a more than welcome boon ahead of Sundays trip to Wembley to play Spurs and try to avoid an 0-2 start to the season.

Unfortunately, thats a highly unlikely scenario Bakayoko playing, not the 0-2 start even after a few pictures of him training were shared on Snapchat by his brother. Without confirmation by Chelsea in their nightly training ground report (they only say Tiemoues making progress, as are Hazard and Pedro), we have to assume this is just light training alongside other injured players like, for example, Baba Rahman. (Plus, would a family member be even allowed at first-team training?)

These snaps are quite blurry, but that could in fact be Baba in the orange bib.

That said, other enterprising fans contacted Tiemoues brother on Snapchat, and he seems to be under the impression that there is a chance Tiemoue plays against Spurs on Sunday. Again, that seems highly optimistic and quite unlikely, but were likely to receive more solid confirmation one way or another later this week.

Yes, it has come to this.

As it stands, it will either be David Luiz or Charly Musonda Jr who will have to partner Kante in midfield, unless Conte (or the Chelsea Board) have something incredibly surprising and never before seen at Chelsea up their sleeves.

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Tiemoue Bakayoko continues recovery progress in Chelsea training - We Ain't Got No History