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chilwell--we-re-ready-for-the-final-push

Chilwell: We're ready for the final push

25 Apr 2021


Fresh from claiming his fifth Premier League assist of the season, Ben
Chilwell assessed an important win in the race for a top-four finish and
looked ahead to some mouth-watering action to come in the final month of
the season…


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Only Timo Werner now has more league assists for the Blues this term and,
incidentally, it was the German who stabbed in Chilwell's low cross to
settle a tight London derby between Chelsea and West Ham at the London
Stadium on Saturday evening.


With both sides locked on the same number of points at kick-off, the
victory handed Thomas Tuchel's side a significant advantage in the race
for Champions League qualification with just five matches remaining.


After the game, Chilwell reflected on a performance that was not our best
but a result that was one of the campaign's most important to date.


'When you look at the game and what it meant to both teams in the fight
for top four, the win was massively important and thankfully we got it,'
he said.


'We knew before the game that physically they're very strong, on the wings
and in midfield they want to run all day and they've got great quality
going forward. We knew what kind of game it was going to be – we were
going to have few chances and would have to defend to stop them having
chances.


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Chilwell said he was unsure whether this challenge by Fabian Balbuena was
intentional but insisted it most certainly hurt!


'The clean sheet is very big. We only got one goal and could probably have
had a few more but we didn't play our best so the win was important.'


With Liverpool having also dropped points earlier in the day, a four-point
gap has now opened up between us and the Reds, with West Ham a point
better off than Jurgen Klopp's men.


Those who pore over the remaining fixtures have noted Chelsea's difficult
run-in, with Champions League and FA Cup knockout football still to play,
but Chilwell sees only exciting occasions ahead. Our trip to Real Madrid
for a European semi-final next week is the sort of game every player hopes
for, according to the defender.


'This is the reason I came to Chelsea,' he explained. 'You want to be
playing in so-called cup finals every week when you're challenging for the
top four. We also have a semi-final against Read Madrid, which is the
stuff you dream about as a kid, and then an FA Cup final.


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Ben Chilwell: "It's been a very strange week, it was win or nothing today"


'We're all very excited because every week there's an important game and
we're challenging for silverware. These are the games you want to be
playing in so we're very happy to be where we are. It's a chance to win
two competitions so emotionally and physically we're very ready for the
final push.'


Chilwell has started five of the past six games for the Blues but knows
competition remains fierce and any drop-off in quality will be capitalised
upon by his rivals for a starting spot, both at club and international
level.


The need for freshness and temptation to rotate is often tempered as the
big games come thick and fast, which only adds importance to what the
players do on the training pitches and away from Cobham.


'I'm fighting with Marcos for that shirt at left wing-back and I'm
fighting with Luke [Shaw] for the shirt with England so it's fun really,'
he added. 'The competition to be starting is what you want and it pushes
you to train harder.


'I've played a lot of football this season but I don't want to miss any of
what we have coming up, including the Euros. It's a very important time in
my career but as a team as well so we have to rest up as much as we can
between games, recover well, train hard and take the opportunity when it
comes.'

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