Chelsea are gearing up for their FA Cup semi-final bout with Crystal Palace on Sunday in what is now the Blues' only realistic chance of adding another trophy this season. Thomas Tuchel will be hoping his side can replicate the sort of form they have shown over the past week.
Last weekend saw, Chelsea thump Southampton 6-0 at St. Mary's just a few days before they went to the Santiago Bernabeu and won 3-2 (lost 5-4 on aggregate). "Confidence-wise, I think it is a huge boost, but still, it is a disappointment to go out of the Champions League at the quarter-final," Tuchel said in his press conference on Friday.
"It's not like a big drama in this kind of way, but it is still a disappointment because we felt we could be one of the four teams in the semi-final. It is a weird feeling. We had a huge task to go to Madrid – to win by a minimum of two goals to make it to extra time or three goals to win in a knockout game at Bernabeu.
