Marc Cucurella says that Chelsea Liverpool will give their honorary guard on Sunday – but will stop their show of respect as soon as the first whistle goes.
While the visitors of Stamford Bridge can now cherish in the glory of champions, the blues are desperate to strengthen their top-five bid under Enzo Maresca.
Cucurella said: “They won the competition. They deserve it. If we have to do it, we will do it. This is before the game. As soon as the game starts, we go for our objectives.
'We will fight with everything and for the three points. Hopefully we can have this in the coming years. It is what we fight for and what we are trying to do.
'It's a good thing to have it (the guard of honor). I think if they ask me if we do it and we win the game, we would all do it, easy. We have to do it because they have won the competition. When the game starts, we do our work. '
This game is 10 years since Steven Gerrard and Cose Mourinho's Chelsea have to give their own honorary guard at Stamford Bridge, in May 2015.
The blues are now a very different club than what they were then, with a property that desperately reduces the good days for supporters, but Cucurella believes they are building together to special times.
“We train every day before, for winning every game, to play these important games, reaching final, playing for a title,” he said. “This is our main goal and I think we are starting to build something important.”
When securing Champions League football, what Chelsea can do, because they still have to face their fellow rivalen Newcastle and Nottingham Forest in the run-in, Cucurella added: “We know that the Premier League is very difficult. No game is simple. We have to fight. If you are not focused enough in one game, you can lose. Now it's in our hands and it's very important to us. '
Cucurella has become the favorite of Chelsea fans after an initially challenging period, in which the supporters sing a song about him who eat paella and drink Estrella. The 26-year-old Spaniard, however, admitted that lower is not his Tipple par excellence.
“I don't like Estrella! I don't like beer, I don't like wine. I only love vodka! But I feel very proud, because when I went here, it was difficult. '