Chelsea vs Roma: Alvaro Morata trains for the third day straight ahead of Champions League clash
The Blues striker has stepped up his return after picking up a hamstring injury while away with Spain
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ALVARO MORATA appears ready for Roma after training for the third day in a row.
The Chelsea striker has stepped up his return after picking up a hamstring injury while away with Spain.
Blues missed him badly as Michy Batshuayi struggled in the defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Antonio Conte said before the game that he expected Morata to be back for the Champions League clash at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.
And Morata looked poised to make his comeback after taking a full part in Conte's preparations.
Blues have won their opening two matches against Qarabag and Atletico Madrid.
Blues skipper Gary Cahill is backing Morata to help Blues bounce back from the Palace defeat on his return against Roma.
Morata has netted seven goals in nine games since making a £65million switch from Real Madrid.
Cahill said: "He is back out on the pitch and hopefully he keeps progressing okay.
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"When you have had a bad result and a bad performance, you want to play again as soon as possible, which is midweek for us, to try to put it right.
"My role as a skipper now is to go into training and be positive and go again.
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"The result is gone and you go in and you work and produce a performance on Wednesday that we know we can, get that winning feeling back and then we go from there."
Blues are without Victor Moses, N'Golo Kante and Danny Drinkwater for the game against Roma.
All three have hamstring problems, with Moses facing a month out after limping off at Selhurt Park.
