Michael Ballack has revealed that Chelsea now has the focus to go on and win all their remaining Premiership games and push Manchester United and Liverpool all the way to the title.
The German feels that after victories against Liverpool and Arsenal in the Champions League and the FA Cup respectively, has proved that Chelsea are now back on track and ready to claim back the league title that Manchester United took from them last season.
Chelsea's win against Arsenal on Saturday in the FA Cup once again showed how they can dig deep and turn the game around after falling behind, but as the Chelsea midfielder tells the clubs official website, its about staying focused and maintaining the mental attitude that continues to win them matches.
'In the last two games we have come back from 1-0 and 2-0, we have shown great character and that is what we have to keep doing.
'We have to be really focused like we showed against Arsenal in the FA Cup and against Liverpool in the Champions League last week.
'We are focused on the league until the end, we know it will be difficult to go top, because in the last two games the other teams were a little bit lucky, but that's what you need to stay on top.'
Gus Hiddink's half-time team talk must of been something but was it the same for the Arsenal game?
'The Champions League game it was a little bit more difficult because we were 2-0 down and we weren't looking too good, but against Arsenal it was a draw, so at the break things were a bit more quiet,' explained Ballack
Didier Drogba is playing out of his skin at the moment with nine goals in twelve appearances and the German knows that he has the ability to keep producing the critical goals in the most important games.
'He is a player who can decide big games, he is a strong player mentally and physically and that is what he showed against Arsenal.'
Ballack explains why Arsenal was such a tough game.
'Everybody knows they [Arsenal] can play football, they can hold the ball and it is difficult to get the ball off them. You have to run a lot, you have to fight a lot and that's what we did. But they had the same problems because we played well.'
Next stop Everton but will they be seeing the fixture as a dress rehearsal for the FA Cup final.
'They are doing well at the moment, for us on Wednesday is another big game, another difficult game, but we play at home and we will want to win it as usual.
If you see the last games we really played good football, we came back from difficult situations and now we can go further and maybe win more titles.'
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