It was the captain who, with eight other players, was introduced at half-time who began the turnaround by tapping in after a corner bounced off an opponent before Mohamed Salah levelled the scores. Terry headed the winner in the 89^th-minute to make the final score 3-2 in the second pre-season game.

Assistant first team coach Steve Holland reflected on the contribution made by the highest scoring defender in the club’s history.

‘It is something that John Terry has always done throughout his career and it’s a big bonus if your defenders can win a match from a set-play situation, and both of John’s goals were. Long may it continue.’

The two corners were delivered by 19-year-old midfielder Lewis Baker, as was the pass from which Salah scored, with Terry telling Chelsea TV after the game:

‘He [Baker] puts a great ball in, it was a great delivery, and I said to him if he hits it at the first post I will be get there, and thankfully I did get there and we won the game.’

Baker, speaking to the official Chelsea website, confirmed: ‘John Terry said to me it was a great ball.

‘The manager said at half-time for us to step up the tempo and that is what we did and we managed to break Wimbledon down. In the second half we played quicker but we also had to last 90 minutes in the heat and we did well in the second half.

‘There are a lot of young boys in this pre-season at the moment and we all try to do our best when we are with the first team. An impression is what we have to make and in the second half we did.’

Holland also discussed Marco van Ginkel who followed up his 45 minutes at Wycombe with 69 minutes on Saturday afternoon. 

‘Marco has worked fantastically hard to come back from an awful injury at Swindon and has had a long road back but he has done magnificently well, well enough to be involved in the Dutch squad’s training just before the World Cup.

‘He is accumulating games and he is looking stronger every game, and it is really important he gets a good pre-season.

‘It is early days for the squad,’ Holland added. ‘We are still using 21 players over the two halves and the second-half team did better than the first-half team did this time, but it was still an opportunity to see a lot of the players we don’t usually get to see at this time of year. The good thing about this game is that the lads kept going and showed good spirit to recover the game.

‘On Monday we get the Spanish players, Gary Cahill and Filipe Luis into the squad and slowly it will take shape as the weeks go on.’

-          John Terry’s post-match interview and match highlights are available now via Chelsea TV On Demand