N’Golo Kante insists Chelsea do not consider themselves Europa League favourites

Chelsea star N’Golo Kante insists they do not consider themselves Europa League favourites. The Blues reached the semi-finals after beating Slavia Prague 5-3 on aggregate. “We’re not favourites; we played a good match and we will do all we can to get to the final,” said Kante. “I think it’s important to be in the semi-finals, it was our target. We played a good game, it was difficult in the second-half but we got what we wanted and we are happy for that. I think they worked very well, they tried to push more and scored two beautiful goals. And after that we managed to hold on to keep the win.” Kante, the World Cup winner believes completing that Europa League mission would turn Chelsea’s campaign into a success. “We can make the season beautiful by winning the Europa League,” said Kante. “That’s the only title we can win now, so it would be great to win the Europa League. I think at the beginning of the game it was a good feeling to score three goals like this. The most important thing was to qualify. We’ll go into the semi-final with confidence and we hope to qualify for the final.” Chelsea will face Eintracht Frankfurt in their semi-final games.

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