Antonio Conte will hope he and the travelling Chelsea fans witnessed the start of what will quickly become a beautiful relationship in Madrid on Wednesday night.

It took only five minutes of their first start together against Atlético Madrid in the Champions League for Eden Hazard to provide Álvaro Morata with his first shooting chance.

The Belgian went on to give Morata at least one more sight of goal before providing the second-half left-wing cross from which Chelsea’s record signing scored his seventh goal for the club.

By the time Michy Batshuayi tapped in Chelsea’s stoppage time winner, the watching Diego Costa had his head in his hands. Amid all the smiles and celebration of his return to Atlético, the 28-year-old must harbour at least a tinge of jealousy that it will now be Morata and not him who Hazard is seeking to pick out.

It was vital for Chelsea that Morata hit the ground running this season, following the departure of Costa, and he has done just that in the Premier League and the Champions League.