Speaking ahead of the second leg of the Champions League tonight at Stamford Bridge, the former Barcelona player Cesc Fabregas has urged his teammate to find the the killer instinct.
The 27 year old was part of the Spanish squad who lifted the most famous trophy in world football so he knows about nerves when it comes to important games.
When you unlock the mental fear of the quarter-final, which is what we did with the national team, we felt we could become champions.
“Once we were champions we were unstoppable, but you have to take this fear out and take it away. We have to believe we are the best.”
“We have to be ready mentally to win every situation because this game will not be a walk in the park.”
Fabregas is very happy to be working under Mourinho and praised the team spirit in the dressing room, but thinks his side has still something missing which is the killer instinct.
If there is one thing missing it is killing teams. Sometimes we don’t kill them when we have the chance. When we score one we have to score more and more. That’s the only way we can really improve, developing that killer instinct.
