Liam Rosenior believes Saturday’s game against Manchester United provides the Blues with an ideal opportunity to make up ground on one of the other teams vying for Champions League qualification.
Chelsea have six league fixtures remaining, starting with the visit of the Reds, who sit three places and seven points above us in the table.
A victory at the Bridge would narrow that gap and provide Rosenior’s side with some much-needed momentum heading into the final few weeks of the season. Our head coach is confident his squad are primed to return to winning ways.
‘We have to take advantage of this moment,’ said Rosenior at his press conference at Cobham on Thursday.
‘We’re running out of time, so we need to show that initiative on Saturday evening. We need to play on the front foot and we need to make up those points, which is definitely still possible.
‘We've had a lot of really strong conversations as a group, and we've had some very, very good training sessions. In this kind of moment, you find out about yourself, you find out about your group, and you actually just have to stay focused on the process, which is the here and now.’
Despite recent results, Rosenior has not lost sight of what his players are capable of. That, coupled with the unity in the group and the preparations he has observed, gives him further hope we can secure three points on Saturday.
He said: ‘You focus on what you can control, which is our performance, which is analysing ourselves, analysing the opposition, working making sure your process is right, and making sure the attitude and the energy and the application to the game is right.
'The team are together. We all know that we want to be successful together. That is not in question. What hasn't changed is we have got some very, very good players who can make the difference. I expect a good performance on Saturday.’