Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho is convinced they can topple Manchester United in Wednesday night's Champions League final.

"Ronaldo has been fantastic for the Premier League," said Carvalho. "We have to try to not give him too much space. It is difficult to stop him but if you focus and work with your team-mates, it will be easy.

"Sunday was disappointing, but now we have to look forwards to playing the final. It is an important game for the players and the club. The last few days will be more difficult, when you start to think about the game.

"In my first final, we got the result and I got the cup. It was a fantastic day. The Champions League is the best you can get as a player with a club. Playing United is going to be very tough. They have shown what a great team they are this season but we really want to win this trophy. As players we want to deliver this for the fans.

"Over the last few years whenever we have played against United it has always been difficult. But we have shown that we can beat them. We played excellent football at Stamford Bridge in the league when we won 2-1 and we beat them in the FA Cup final last season.

"It doesn't matter who wins the league, this is the Champions League. We will arrive in Moscow confident we can win. We have not got to think about the last game of the season - just focus on the final. To miss out on the league was difficult for us. Now we have to win the Champions League and we have to be prepared.

"The Premier League season was good, but we just could not recover enough points. But now we have a Champions League final to play and just have to focus on that."