Willian is adamant Chelsea are in the Europa League to win it.

Chelsea kickoff their campaign tonight in Greece against PAOK.

Willian knows PAOK's midfielder Mauricio from their time together as 14- and 15-year-old players at Corinthians back in Brazil.

"It will be nice," Willian said of the re-acquaintance possibilities, "and also it will be a difficult game for sure. They have players with quality and we have to be ready. We want to start well, we want to start with three points.

"We have five wins in a row and I think we are confident at the moment. We can do good things this season and the way we play we can try to win titles. Tomorrow we start another competition and we want to start well and win this competition as well, so we go for it!"

He added: "It is an honour to play for this club. I am very happy at Chelsea. My mind was always to play for Chelsea and now with Maurizio Sarri we have a different way to play football, so I just want to enjoy and continue to play for this club.

"The manager wants us to play, everyone can see in the games the difference from last season. We play more, we have more possession, we enjoy to have fun with responsibility and we have won five games in a row so we have to continue the same way."