Costa makes Conte's night: Dramatic late strike gives new Chelsea boss a debut win after striker escaped red for nasty challenge

CHELSEA 2-1 WEST HAM - MARTIN SAMUEL AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: Diego Costa swung a right boot, more in desperation than expectation. 


The night was not going to plan at all. There was a minute to go and Chelsea were on the brink. Not of victory, although not really of calamity, either; this was hardly an echo of last season. But they were poised to drop points to West Ham at home. And that's not good around these parts. It would constitute an inauspicious start for manager Antonio Conte. In at the far corner it went.