Champions League and FA Cup Chelsea’s main priority, admits Guus Hiddink

Chelsea hosted Manchester City at Stamford Bridge in the fifth round of the FA Cup tournament on Sunday.

Pellegrini maintained at his Friday news conference that he will turn to youth in the fifth-round clash due to City’s Champions League fixture at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday and a length injury list. I think that we played two rounds before and in both rounds we were drawn with Premier League teams and we won 4-0 and 3-0 with all the players that we had in that moment.

“One of the most important things we must do in England is to try to help English teams who are playing in the Champions League”.

Guus Hiddink wants to create more happy memories when Chelsea face off against Everton in the FA Cup next month, but is wary of a Toffees side seeking revenge. “We must be careful not to devalue this”, said Hiddink, who won the competition with Chelsea in 2009, beating Everton in the final.

“We can not take the risk with just 13 players”. The London team sailed past Manchester City 5-1 yesterday.

“I thought for 55 minutes we were very good and well in the game”, Blackburn manager Paul Lambert told the BBC.

But Fabregas, clearly puzzled at the team City put out, said: “We played Newcastle (last week) and three days later played against one of the best sides in Europe (PSG)”. “I know there is a replay still be played, but I would have to favour Arsenal”. After Diego Costa got the scoring started in the first half, Eden Hazard turned up the intensity, creating shots and scoring from a free kick. “We are making steps (forward)”, Hiddink said.

Hazard, whose movement and passing resembled the player who propelled Chelsea to the Premier League title last season, threaded in Willian in the 48th and he finished ruthlessly, lashing the ball fiercely past Caballero and into the far corner. “Those people, they should not come into stadiums”.

Missiles were thrown from the lower section of the Matthew Harding Stand as City players celebrated David Faupala’s first half equaliser in front of the massed ranks of Chelsea’s support.