Joao Felix has vowed to guide Chelsea to Champions League success this season as he continues to impress under Graham Potter
Joao Felix makes bold Champions League promise ahead of Chelsea vs Dortmund (Image: Photo by Craig Mercer/MB Media/Getty Images)
Joao Felix has insisted that Chelsea must win the Champions League this season ahead of the Blues’ clash with Borussia Dortmund. The German outfit are set to welcome Graham Potter’s side to the Signal Iduna Park on Wednesday evening as they vie for a place in the quarter-final.
With Chelsea ten-points adrift of fourth-placed Newcastle in the the Premier League, qualification to the Champions League next term via domestic competition looks unlikely. Unless they can drastically transform their fortunes, the west Londoners will be eager to do everything it takes to bypass Dortmund.
And, Felix has vowed to lift the prestigious trophy as Chelsea set their sights on European glory. Speaking to Chelsea TV following the clash with West Ham, the 23-year-old said: “Now the focus is on the next game.
“The most important game is always the next one. It’s the Champions League, it’s a competition we want to win. Our Champions League [campaign] starts on Wednesday, and it needs to be ours.”
Felix is currently on loan at Chelsea from Atletico Madrid this season. The Blues are expected to pay the Spanish giants around £9million for the six-month signing of the Portugal international, who was watched on numerous occasions by the club’s scouts ahead of his arrival.
Despite his impressive performances thus far, Potter has insisted that Felix will not be a ‘silver bullet’ who can ‘fix all Chelsea’s problems’. After the Hammers clash, the Blues boss said: “The first signs were positive.
“I think he’s a very gifted individual. Then it’s about how he fits in with the rest of the guys and the team. It’s about the team attacking better and defending better.
“It’s not necessarily about individual silver bullets that can come and fix your problems all of a sudden. It’s not quite as simple as that, although it sounds like a nice way to fix a problem. You have to construct a team.
“I thought he looked the best player on the pitch. (A misjudged tackled) can happen. If you look at the 60 minutes before, he was taking the ball in tight situations, there was real physicality around him, and he was in my opinion the best player on the pitch.”
source: www.football.london
