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Antonio Conte needs to use his creativity, boldness to fix Chelsea

If you want to see the glass as half-full, Eden Hazard's late equalizer against Roma meant that Chelsea avoided their third consecutive defeat in all competitions. To find the last time that happened, you have to go all the way back to September 2002: Claudio Ranieri was the manager, Chelsea were still owned by Ken Bates and the club was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

Rationally, such streaks are meaningless but psychologically, they matter, as Eden Hazard hinted after the game when he said: "I think we were thinking about the back-to-back defeats heading into the game, so one point is enough today.