The Blues make the short trip across west London on Friday evening for the first fixture of the final Premier League slate before the international break, and have been preparing at Cobham with no midweek game to worry about.

Alonso and several of his players suggested there was hard work to do on the training pitch to get back to winning ways against the Bees following Saturday's 2-2 home draw with Hull City, and they have been true to their word by putting in another big shift at Cobham today.

The Blues grafted in the gym and on the training pitch on a lovely late summer's morning in Surrey, and here are our favourite images of the Chelsea squad putting in the midweek work at Cobham today...