Ola Aina:Chelsea Game Is Special For Me

 

Ola Aina would like nothing more than to put one over his former employers on Saturday.

The versatile defender spent more than a decade at Chelsea and so understandably holds the club in high esteem, but his full focus is on bringing the points home to the black and white half of SW6.

“It’s going to be a tough game, a very tough game,” Aina admitted. “I came through the ranks there so I know a lot of people, a lot of coaches.

“It’s going to be a special game for me, but nevertheless the team’s going there to do a job, and hopefully we can.

“I had great memories at Chelsea because I was there from when I was a kid to a young man, some good memories with the first team as well, being with that Premier League winning squad in 2016/17.

“I get excited for every fixture, but to play against your boyhood club is always one that you relish, and I’m looking forward to it.”

The weekend marks the 52nd competitive fixture of what could be a highly successful campaign for Chelsea.

They secured an impressive 1-1 draw away to Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, but Aina knows whichever side Thomas Tuchel names will provide a stern test.

“It will be difficult, even though they’ve got a lot of games,” he said. “They’ve got good rotation in their squad. I think whoever plays for Chelsea against us, it will still be a difficult game as they’ve got quality players.

“That’s just how it is, but with how the Premier League is, anything can happen. Anyone can beat anyone.

“At the end of the day it’s 11 against 11, so I’m looking forward to it and we’ll see what happens.”

Fulham currently sit seven points from safety but, with 15 more still to play for, Aina refuses to let attentions slip.

“To the outside world, it’s looking like a massive mountain, but to us, the staff here, the boys, we just take every game as it comes,” he explained.

“We have to focus on the games one by one, and the next game’s Chelsea so we just have to focus on that, do our best, try and get a result, and that’s how we’ll be pushing on for the rest of the season.

“We have five more games to go, these are five massive finals for us, so we have to hit them head on.”

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