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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/10/19/
azpilicueta-ready-for-champions-league-challenge

Azpilicueta ready for Champions League challenge

19 Oct 2020


We begin our Champions League campaign against Sevilla on Tuesday evening
and Cesar Azpilicueta is confident Chelsea can make a good start against
difficult opponents.


https://i.imgur.com/suJc7Ak.jpg


The Spanish side visit Stamford Bridge for our opening group stage fixture
of 2020/21 and our skipper knows all about what to expect from our
opponents, having played under their manager Julen Lopetegui for the Spain
national team, but has complete faith in our own ability at this level.


'Since I arrived here in 2012 I always had the belief and the confidence
that we could fight for everything,' said Azpilicueta. 'So this year it's
true that we didn't start the way we wanted in the Premier League and the
Carabao Cup but the Champions League starts, it's completely a new
challenge and we have to be ready for it because we are going to be
playing against a strong team.


'We saw Sevilla beat Wolves and Manchester United in the last campaign in
the Europa League, so we have seen that they have the level to compete
against teams in the Premier League, and they are a team that want to
control the game offensively and defensively.


https://i.imgur.com/jL7t1ze.jpg
Sevilla beat Man Utd in last season's Europa League semi-finals en route to
winning the competition


'When they don't have the ball they want to get it back and attack quickly
and also they try to put their attacking players in dangerous situations.
Last season in La Liga they finished in the Champions League places and
they won the Europa League, so they had a very good season and they have
started this season in the same way. We expect a tough game but we are
Chelsea, we are at home, we are playing our first game in the Champions
League, so we have to be ready to compete.'


Our own European campaign last season came to an end in the Champions
League last 16, at the hands of eventual winners Bayern Munich, but our
captain also believes that experience will help make us stronger this time
around, especially in the case of the many young players who were
competing in the Champions League for the first time in 2019/20.


'When you get experience obviously it is better, because last season we
had players who had never tasted Champions League football. It was new for
some of them, and we had to compete against difficult teams.


'The last experience we had in the Champions League was against Bayern
Munich, they were the best in Europe last season, so we could see where we
want to be if we want to challenge with the best. We could see home and
away how they played, the intensity, concentration, focus on every single
ball. That's what it takes to be competing at the highest level and
hopefully from that moment we could see, we could learn.


'You are never happy to lose so we have the chance tomorrow to show what
we have improved since last season in the Champions League.'


However, one of the areas Azpilicueta wants to see improvement in is our
ability to defend as a team and be more ruthless in closing out games when
we need to.


'What is very clear is that if we want to improve and fight for everything
we have to improve the defensive side and obviously this is a problem that
we have to fix collectively and individually, because when you concede so
many goals, one day you can get away with it and you can score four goals
but you cannot rely on every single game to score four goals.


'I think it's key moving forward and we have to start getting this
consistency of winning games, of not conceding goals.


https://i.imgur.com/ZbefAHP.jpg


'When you have the solidity defensively I think it gives a boost for the
whole team. I always see football as a collective. When we don't score
goals I try to see even as a defender, how we can put our dangerous
players, attacking players, in better positions, because sometimes they
don't get the service that they should get. And as a defender I feel bad
when you concede as many goals, but sometimes we have to improve our
personal mistakes that have been an issue and also collectively sometimes
we have to take decisions and say “we all defend together right now”.


'Through the season you're not going to be playing beautiful football
every single day and winning 4-0, even if it's what we wish. When we
can't, at the end of the day it doesn't matter your position, we must do
this to win the game because football is about results.'

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以伊露維塔的名為證發誓 — 若有誰敢奪取屬於我們的藍色之心，不論對方是天使
、惡魔、男人或女人，包括尚未出生者，若有任何的生靈，不論偉大或渺小，是善
還是惡，我們都將懷著復仇與憎恨之心直追到天涯海角，直追到世界結束之日。


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