All pressure on Barca
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard admits the squad goes into their clash with Barcelona this week in a relaxed mood.
Lamps said: "It's nice to go to Barcelona without the pressure - but we shouldn't get lulled into that.
"If we go there without pressure and get the result that Barcelona are capable of handing out, then it won't be good for us in terms of the qualifying group and the team in general.
"We need to go there and continue with our form and our play and make sure we're mentally on the ball.
"All it's about at the moment is qualifying.
"It's a great arena of football but we can use that as a positive as well. We'll be playing in one of the greatest places you can play football.
"It's not the time to say we're going to win the Champions League.
"We hope and want to be successful in everything we do - in the league and in Europe - but it's much too early to say.
"Europe is such a difficult competition that we've got to keep playing and improving if we're going to do anything."
Lamps said: "It's nice to go to Barcelona without the pressure - but we shouldn't get lulled into that.
"If we go there without pressure and get the result that Barcelona are capable of handing out, then it won't be good for us in terms of the qualifying group and the team in general.
"We need to go there and continue with our form and our play and make sure we're mentally on the ball.
"All it's about at the moment is qualifying.
"It's a great arena of football but we can use that as a positive as well. We'll be playing in one of the greatest places you can play football.
"It's not the time to say we're going to win the Champions League.
"We hope and want to be successful in everything we do - in the league and in Europe - but it's much too early to say.
"Europe is such a difficult competition that we've got to keep playing and improving if we're going to do anything."
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