Chelsea’s attacking midfielder Eden Hazard is on schedule to return from a hamstring injury to play in the second leg against Atletico.

Hazard has missed the last three games with the problem having limped off during the quarter-final victory against Paris St Germain.

The 23-year-old was still feeling some discomfort in his leg earlier this week and is unlikely to be risked for the trip to Anfield on Sunday.

Patrick Barclay's Premier League team of the season 12 show all Patrick Barclay's Premier League team of the season 1/12 DAVID MARSHALL The Luis Suarez of goalkeepers. It could be argued Marshall has saved as many goals on Cardiff’s behalf as Suarez has scored for Liverpool. The wonder is he’s got to the age of 29 with a mere 11 caps for Scotland. A boy wonder (with Celtic) turned late developer. 2/12 SEAMUS COLEMAN The very model of a modern full-back, Coleman drives forward with searing pace and has much better skills than other quickies such as Tottenham’s Kyle Walker. As impressive this season as Everton colleague Leighton Baines, which is saying something, the Irishman merits Champions League football. 3/12 GARY CAHILL To keep Vincent Kompany and Martin Skrtel out of my side, Cahill has needed to improve steadily through the season. Job done. The Chelsea man has height, good feet and an increasing awareness of the need for defensive concentration that can only have come from association with John Terry. 4/12 JOHN TERRY I thought he looked a bit rusty in the first couple of months of the season. The old eyes must have been deceiving me. Terry is still tough and relentlessly determined but a little cleverer, if anything, and often so majestic in his passing as to suggest he could quite comfortably play in midfield. 5/12 LUKE SHAW Not to choose someone from Southampton would seem odd and, besides, the powerful teenager has performed so consistently well as to leave Ashley Cole sweating on a World Cup place with England. He’s not a bad defender as well as excellent going forward. A young Maldini, maybe. 6/12 STEVEN GERRARD In my opinion, the England captain is playing the best football of his life now Brendan Rodgers has convinced him that Roy Of The Rovers is best left in comics (not that he didn’t bring the role to glorious life more than a few times). A truly responsible leader, nearing greatness. 7/12 YAYA TOURE He may have the build of a brick outhouse but there are not many daintier technicians in a Premier League midfield (okay, maybe David Silva, just) than Toure. Also as devastating a free-kick exponent as any, curling them low over the wall and inside the near post. GETTY 8/12 RAHEEM STERLING You keep waiting for his form to dip but it just gets better and better — and more complex. The sudden twist with which he made space to score against Manchester City might have come from Pathe footage of a young Pele. Over-excited? Yes but I don’t see such class every day. 9/12 AARON RAMSEY Many on the Emirates slopes despaired of him. But it took time and guts to get over a badly broken leg and Ramsey has proved himself with a quite magnificent (if again injury-interrupted) season. As a goalscoring midfielder, up there with vintage Lampard. 10/12 EDEN HAZARD Exciting enough, especially before Christmas, to be a Player of the Year candidate in a normal season. Unfortunately for the Belgian, this isn’t a normal season. But he’s of a type Jose Mourinho loves — a flair player with a work ethic. Quick too. A Chelsea legend in the making. GETTY 11/12 LUIS SUAREZ The Uruguayan’s made it an abnormal season. Having missed the start due to illicit use of those trademark teeth, he took the Premier League by the scruff of its neck and made Liverpool the most dramatically improved team. Players’ Player of the Year and Suarez has, in all likelihood, won over the football writers too. 12/12 AND MY RESERVE XI It has to be Hugo Lloris in goal despite the continuing excellence of Petr Cech and Wojciech Szczesny’s resurgence. Across the back are Pablo Zabaleta, Kompany, Skrtel — I didn’t think much of him until this season — and Baines. Jordan Henderson and Fernandinho are the first line of midfield, with Adam Lallana, Sergio Aguero and Ross Barkley in the creative positions and Daniel Sturridge up front. On second thoughts, Barkley’s time will come — I’m going 4-3-3 and leaving him out in favour of Mile Jedinak, representing Tony Pulis’s Crystal Palace. GETTY 1/12 DAVID MARSHALL The Luis Suarez of goalkeepers. It could be argued Marshall has saved as many goals on Cardiff’s behalf as Suarez has scored for Liverpool. The wonder is he’s got to the age of 29 with a mere 11 caps for Scotland. A boy wonder (with Celtic) turned late developer. 2/12 SEAMUS COLEMAN The very model of a modern full-back, Coleman drives forward with searing pace and has much better skills than other quickies such as Tottenham’s Kyle Walker. As impressive this season as Everton colleague Leighton Baines, which is saying something, the Irishman merits Champions League football. 3/12 GARY CAHILL To keep Vincent Kompany and Martin Skrtel out of my side, Cahill has needed to improve steadily through the season. Job done. The Chelsea man has height, good feet and an increasing awareness of the need for defensive concentration that can only have come from association with John Terry. 4/12 JOHN TERRY I thought he looked a bit rusty in the first couple of months of the season. The old eyes must have been deceiving me. Terry is still tough and relentlessly determined but a little cleverer, if anything, and often so majestic in his passing as to suggest he could quite comfortably play in midfield. 5/12 LUKE SHAW Not to choose someone from Southampton would seem odd and, besides, the powerful teenager has performed so consistently well as to leave Ashley Cole sweating on a World Cup place with England. He’s not a bad defender as well as excellent going forward. A young Maldini, maybe. 6/12 STEVEN GERRARD In my opinion, the England captain is playing the best football of his life now Brendan Rodgers has convinced him that Roy Of The Rovers is best left in comics (not that he didn’t bring the role to glorious life more than a few times). A truly responsible leader, nearing greatness. 7/12 YAYA TOURE He may have the build of a brick outhouse but there are not many daintier technicians in a Premier League midfield (okay, maybe David Silva, just) than Toure. Also as devastating a free-kick exponent as any, curling them low over the wall and inside the near post. GETTY 8/12 RAHEEM STERLING You keep waiting for his form to dip but it just gets better and better — and more complex. The sudden twist with which he made space to score against Manchester City might have come from Pathe footage of a young Pele. Over-excited? Yes but I don’t see such class every day. 9/12 AARON RAMSEY Many on the Emirates slopes despaired of him. But it took time and guts to get over a badly broken leg and Ramsey has proved himself with a quite magnificent (if again injury-interrupted) season. As a goalscoring midfielder, up there with vintage Lampard. 10/12 EDEN HAZARD Exciting enough, especially before Christmas, to be a Player of the Year candidate in a normal season. Unfortunately for the Belgian, this isn’t a normal season. But he’s of a type Jose Mourinho loves — a flair player with a work ethic. Quick too. A Chelsea legend in the making. GETTY 11/12 LUIS SUAREZ The Uruguayan’s made it an abnormal season. Having missed the start due to illicit use of those trademark teeth, he took the Premier League by the scruff of its neck and made Liverpool the most dramatically improved team. Players’ Player of the Year and Suarez has, in all likelihood, won over the football writers too. 12/12 AND MY RESERVE XI It has to be Hugo Lloris in goal despite the continuing excellence of Petr Cech and Wojciech Szczesny’s resurgence. Across the back are Pablo Zabaleta, Kompany, Skrtel — I didn’t think much of him until this season — and Baines. Jordan Henderson and Fernandinho are the first line of midfield, with Adam Lallana, Sergio Aguero and Ross Barkley in the creative positions and Daniel Sturridge up front. On second thoughts, Barkley’s time will come — I’m going 4-3-3 and leaving him out in favour of Mile Jedinak, representing Tony Pulis’s Crystal Palace. GETTY

However, he is confident a few extra days’ rest will make the difference and is desperate to be available to help Chelsea reach their third final in seven years.