‘I Speak to some of them nearly every day,’ Cesc Fabregas says of his friends back at Barcelona, the club he grew up at and spent nine years with, across two spells.
Now though, it’s a little different: ‘Probably now, we speak less — maybe because of the game.’
Chelsea believe they are back in their winning, no-fear, against-the-odds mindset ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 first leg tie, and nothing comes in the way of that.
Manager Antonio Conte has been drilling his players on Barcelona for a month.