Mason Mount has called on Chelsea to use their 2012 Champions League final victory over Bayern Munich as inspiration for a comeback this year.
The Blues' Champions League hopes for this season are hanging by a thread after they were beaten by Bayern on Tuesday night.
The German champions won 3-0 in the first leg at Stamford Bridge to take a commanding lead ahead of their last-16 tie on March 18.
It leaves the Frank Lampard's side knowing they need to overturn a three-goal deficit in Germany against a side who have lost just twice at the Allianz Arena all season.
Chelsea, however, have good memories of the stadium after beating the Bundesliga giants there to win the Champions League in 2012 and Mount says that must act as motivation.
“We have to be positive, anything can happen,” said the midfielder.
“We saw in the [2012] final between Chelsea and Bayern that anything can happen in football.
“It is 3-0, but you never know, and we need to go there with our heads held high and try to perform to the best of our ability.
“We have shown we can come back in the past and we need to gather ourselves together and we have it in the changing room to bring out the personalities and bounce back in the next game.”
Nesaiknruy_Legend
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The difference between then and now is not only the quality of player we had but also mentality. That team would have beat the current Bayern by 3 or 4 goals, our team lost to the current Bayern. That Bayern would have beat this Chelsea team by 10 goals in the first leg. Those 2 teams from 2012 compared to the current teams are miles apart especially Chelsea one. A comeback is entirely off the cards for us we dont have the mentality or anywhere near the quality of back then...Ashley Cole vs Alonso, Barkley vs Mata, Giroud/Tammy vs Drogba. No chance sorry guys let's just go and try to give a good account of ourselves in the match and focus on getting top 4 and rebuilding for the future. Heard we are linked with Aouar, would be a fantastic signing and very exciting...
SH221B
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The only comeback chelsea can do will be their comeback from Germany to England after the match.