The Blues are still fighting on two fronts as we approach the final month of the campaign, with qualification for next term’s Champions League up for grabs via two routes.

As well as being heavily involved in the battle for a top-four finish in the Premier League, we also booked our place in the Europa League semi-finals thanks to victory over Slavia Prague last week, with a place in Europe’s elite club competition available for that trophy’s winners.

However, it is not just the opportunity of Champions League qualification that has Sarri eyeing success in both competitions, but also the chance to lift silverware with Chelsea.

‘At the moment we cannot choose,’ he said. ‘We have to try in the Premier League, we have to try in the Europa League, but we want to win the Europa League because it’s a very important competition, not for going in the Champions League.

‘So we have to try in the Premier League to get in the top four. It’s not easy for us because we have to play only four matches, but we have to try. I think in the last four, five matches it will be very difficult for every team involved in the fight for the top four, not only for us. I think we can see some very strange results in the last part of the season, we have only to fight and see at the end.’