Pulisic's high-speed game of hide-and-seek is making him a Chelsea idol | Jonathan Liew

The attacker looked like a fitting replacement for Hazard on the night Lampard’s side reached the Champions League last 16

Of course, they didn’t make it easy for themselves. It wouldn’t be Chelsea if they did. This, perhaps, has been the underlying theme of Frank Lampard’s first half-season: they are a team of wildly undulating fortunes who are often weakest when they appear at their strongest, and strongest when they appear at their weakest.

But once the nervous final minutes had been negotiated, once they could puff out their cheeks and dry their brows, Chelsea could savour a job circuitously well done.

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