Premier League duties are on pause during midweek, with attention temporarily turning to knockout football and the Carabao Cup, as we make our 96th visit to Anfield to take on Liverpool.

It will be a homecoming for Alonso, who spent five years as a player on Merseyside, but like his players, our manager is fully focused on booking Chelsea's spot in the quarter-finals of this season's League Cup.

Among those involved in Tuesday's session were strikers Danny Welbeck and Emmanuel Emegha, who are both in contention to lead the Chelsea attack in the absence of injured striker Joao Pedro. For Emegha, it would be his Chelsea debut, following his summer arrival from Strasbourg.

Here are our pick of the images from today's training session at Cobham, as the Blues completed our preparations for Wednesday's Carabao Cup fourth-round meeting with Liverpool at Anfield.