The imagined hand-squeezing produced a response on the left-hand side of the brain, while the toe-wiggling produced one over the centre of the head.

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Essien was making his return to the Chelsea side after two games out with a toe injury, one of which was last Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Liverpool.

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"To make it firmer on one side, to slow him down and keep him off the big toe, " Harken explains.

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The match could not have started much better for the Welsh side, who laid down an early marker of intent when Chopra got across Alex Baptiste to toe-poke a cross from Peter Whittingham that smashed against the crossbar after just four minutes.

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But Leadbitter's side-footed effort back into the box was cleared by Richard Dunne and Jones could only get a toe to another delivery to the back post.

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