Chelsea midfielder Mateo Kovacic is targeting a third Club World Cup winner's medal this week.

He twice played in and won the competition during his time with Real Madrid, lifting the trophy in Japan in 2016 and successfully defending their title the following year in Abu Dhabi, where this season's edition is also taking place.

"I've had the luck to be involved in two Club World Cups already and it's a nice experience because it's not easy to come here. You have to win the Champions League, which is the most difficult competition," he said.

"So this is always an important competition and a nice one, to come here where it's nice weather, but we need to concentrate on our job, which is to play a good semi-final. Then, hopefully, we can look forward, but first the most important thing is to win the first game in this competition.

"We should have the same motivation as any team, because we want to win every game, win every competition, so I think the motivation should not be a problem for us. We are playing a World Cup so the motivation should be high for everybody, which for sure it is.

"These players, they know that Chelsea is a club that wants to win everything and we are here to win a trophy that Chelsea have never won, so that's an extra motivation for us. So it would be an amazing thing to be the first players that brought this amazing trophy back to London for this great club."