Chelsea star Cesar Azpilicueta believes his team will give a better account of themselves in Europe this season.

The Blues were comfortably into the knockout rounds last term, but fell in the Round of 16 to Bayern Munich, the eventual champions.

Azpilicueta believes his team has learnt a lot from that drubbing, while also improving the squad.

They face Sevilla in the first game of the group stages on Tuesday.

He told reporters: "When you get experience obviously it is better, because last season we had players who had never tasted Champions League football. It was new for some of them, and we had to compete against difficult teams.

"The last experience we had in the Champions League was against Bayern Munich, they were the best in Europe last season, so we could see where we want to be if we want to challenge with the best.

"We could see home and away how they played, the intensity, concentration, focus on every single ball. That's what it takes to be competing at the highest level and hopefully from that moment we could see, we could learn.

"You are never happy to lose so we have the chance tomorrow to show what we have improved since last season in the Champions League."