Kepa: Chelsea Need Fans' Help Against Real Madrid
Kepa Arrizabalaga has called on Chelsea fans to roar the team to an unlikely comeback in the Champions League against Real Madrid
By James McMath
Kepa Arrizabalaga has called on Chelsea fans to roar the team to an unlikely comeback in the Champions League against Real Madrid.
Chelsea take on the 14-time European Champions at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, needing to overturn a 2-0 deficit from the first leg in the quarter-final tie.
Kepa said: "We need a better performance than we had in the Bernabeu.
"We need to control the counter-attacks better and we need to spend better time with the ball. We need to create more chances, score goals and be more clinical in both areas to have a chance.
"Hopefully tomorrow we can involve the fans at Stamford Bridge and deliver our best to make this different atmosphere that we need to go through.
"It is not going to be easy but we have to push as much as we can."
The Blues managed to end their goalless streak against Brighton on Saturday, but still fell to their 12th league defeat of the season.
Spanish goalkeeper Kepa said: "We have to believe until the end.
"In this stadium, remontadas [comebacks] can happen. We have to have belief this will happen tomorrow, deliver our best and try to do the right things.
"We need a big performance - not the performance of our life maybe, but a big performance.
"We are not happy where we are, but the atmosphere is good between us. We're trying to find a way to win but we are the first to know that we have to deal with changes and we want to change the situation."
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