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Cole admits Champions League best chance for Chelsea this term

Ashley Cole is desperate to taste Champions League glory with Chelsea.

The Copenhagen match was the 30-year-old's 80th career game in Europe, all of them in the Champions League, and though he may have an all-time record number of winners' medals in the FA Cup, he continues to seek his first in that competition.

"I played from a young age in the Champions League so I just want to keep it going," Cole told Chelsea TV.

"I have missed out on the medal but it is always nice playing in the Champions League. It is something not many players from here have won so it means a lot to us. I have been in the final twice and defeated twice and it is not a good feeling. Hopefully this season will be different, it will be one to remember."

Cole is steadily closing in on 100 caps for England and he can see the day when he has 100 Champions League games to his name as well.

"I hope so. It would be nice. I am just desperate to win the Champions League and if I can do it in a Chelsea shirt that will be an amazing achievement for me.

"After starting the season so well, we then had this dip in form, it wasn't going for us, and of course it has left us where we are now," he notes.

"It is not a good position for us, we know we have to do better, we want to do better.

"We are out of the FA Cup, the Carling Cup, we're never going to give up on the League but the Champions League is probably now the main focus for us to win because obviously not many people here have won that one."

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