CHELSEA new boy Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was in the stands at Stamford Bridge to watch his new side beat West Ham.
The 33-year-old sealed a £10million move to the Blues on deadline day.
He is currently unavailable for action after having his jaw broken when armed burglars broke into his house near Barcelona last weekend.
But after swapping Barca for the Blues, Aubameyang made sure he was there to see his new team-mates in action.
Although it took until the 76th minute for them to get the new man off his seat.
Michail Antonio had initially put the Hammers ahead with a close-range finish.
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Ben Chilwell then levelled things up – stabbing home past Lukasz Fabianski with 14 minutes remaining.
And Kai Havertz netted an 88th minute winner to make sure Aubameyang’s first visit to Stamford Bridge as a Chelsea player was a happy one.
The Hammers did have the ball in the back of the net again through Maxwel Cornet.
But to the relief of the Stamford Bridge crowd, and Aubameyang, it was disallowed after Jarrod Bowen was ruled to have fouled Edouard Mendy in the build-up.
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Aubameyang’s broken jaw means it is currently unknown when he will make his Chelsea debut.
Boss Thomas Tuchel hinted that it could be when the Blues travel to Croatia to face Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Although the nature of Aubameyang’s injury and how he adapts to wearing a protective mask means his involvement in that game is not yet confirmed.
Tuchel said yesterday: “We try with a mask. It depends a little bit on what the specialists say who create the mask for him.
“And then how he adapts to the mask so maybe it could be Tuesday, although maybe this is very soon. So maybe it’s Fulham, maybe it is a week later.
“The very latest [is] after the national break but we try to push things and Auba is happy to push things.
“He is out there now at the specialist to get his mask done and then he tries, I think, Sunday in training.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
