Chelsea confirm injury boost as their £35m player is captured in training, he’s yet to play this season

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Chelsea central defender Benoit Badiashile has returned to first-team training.

Benoit Badiashile has not played a game this season after picking up a hamstring injury back in May, but Chelsea have now shared a video on Twitter of the 22-year-old doing running and ball work with the players who remained at Cobham during this international break.

Earlier this month, Chelsea posted on their official club website that Badiashile was closing in on a return and that Mauricio Pochettino was hopeful that it would be soon.

And it now looks like the Argentine could be about to get his wish.

Badiashile joined the Blues from AS Monaco in January in a £35m deal. The Frenchman made 11 Premier League appearances and scored one goal last term.

Benoit Badiashile faces a fight getting into the Chelsea team

Chelsea are not exactly light in central defence. Right now, Pochettino currently has Thiago Silva, Levi Colwill and Axel Disasi all available to him, while Wesley Fofana and Trevoh Chalobah will also be options when they come back from injury.

It means there is no guarantee that Badiashile will be a starter under Pochettino this season.

With Chelsea failing to qualify for European football, there will be less opportunities for rotation compared to the last campaign as well.

With all of that in mind, any chance Badiashile gets, he has to try and take it.

Defensively, the Blues have not been horrific this term, but their goals conceded record is not the best, largely because of their 3-1 defeat to West Ham United. Perhaps, then, Badiashile will get an opportunity very soon.