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Conte hints top 4 best Chelsea hope: Still important target

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte admits the top four is now their target after Saturday's defeat at West Ham.

Conte is waiting on today's Champions League last 16 draw.

"We have three possibilities – to play against Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona or Besiktas," he said of today's draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, which begins at 11am UK time.

"But now it is very important for us to be focused on the league, to go game by game, to try to find the right energy to play every three days and to take three points in the kind of game we had against West Ham.

"There is a problem in this league: there are six top teams and only four places for the Champions League.

"You have targets and also, if Manchester City has many points over you, you have an important target to try to go in the first four and to play Champions League.

"Don't forget, two years ago Chelsea missed this target and last season we didn't play European games. Last season Arsenal and Manchester United were out of these places. Then Manchester United won the Europa League, otherwise they were out [of the Champions League] and also Arsenal, for the first time in 19 years.

"To reach this target is not simple. It's very important for me, the players, for all of us. This league is not simple to reach the top four positions."

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