Real Madrid star Kroos: Nobody wanted to draw Chelsea in Champions League

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·24 March 2022

Real Madrid star Kroos: Nobody wanted to draw Chelsea in Champions League

Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos says nobody wanted to draw Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Real will meet the reigning champions in the first leg at Stamford Bridge on April 6, having lost to Thomas Tuchel's side in the semi-finals last year.

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"They are the current Champions League champions, so it couldn't be more difficult," The German midfielder said on his podcast Einfach mal Luppen, which he hosts with his brother Felix.

"There could hardly be a bigger hurdle, but we have to concentrate on ourselves, and if we play well, it's possible to do a lot of things.

"We have to try to be very good because that's what we will have to be to reach the semi-finals.

"Probably nobody wanted PSG in the last 16, and probably nobody wanted Chelsea in the quarter-finals. But that's the way things are, and we have to accept them."