N'Golo Kante has stepped up his return to fitness and has been involved in a Graham Potter training session for the first time ahead of Chelsea's clash with Crystal Palace at the weekend. The French international featured in Chelsea's opening two matches of the season but picked up a hamstring injury against Tottenham and has missed the six games since.
Thomas Tuchel said that Kante would be out for a minimum of four weeks and the 31-year-old's return to first team training has come more that six weeks later. Though the former Leicester star had completed individual sessions in the earlier parts of Potter's tenure.
Kante's appearances comes the day after Chelsea's first team players who were not on international duty, returned to Cobham to begin their training. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Trevoh Chalobah, Edouard Mendy, Kepa Arrizabalaga and Marcus Bettinelli trained along with a number of academy prospects under the watchful eye of Potter.
