• Champions League

'Big part' to play for Terry ahead of final

ESPN staff
May 14, 2012
John Terry will be giving everything in the lead-up to the Champions League final to help his Chelsea team-mates prepare © Getty Images
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Chelsea captain John Terry says he has a massive part to play in the club's preparations for the Champions League final on Saturday, despite the fact he will miss the showpiece.

The defender is suspended along with Ramires, Branislav Ivanovic and Raul Meireles for the clash with Bayern Munich, all four of whom featured in Sunday's Premier League win over Blackburn in which Terry scored.

"It's always good to end the league season with a win, especially bouncing back after Liverpool in the week as well," Terry told Chelsea's official website.

"It was a difficult game (against Blackburn) even though they had already been relegated, and we were resting guys for the Champions League as well. Sometimes you can be a bit slow when it's like that, which our first half was, but we got the two goals before half-time and it set us on our way.

"We can now go into the Champions League with a little bit of momentum and a winning mentality back, so we did what we had to do."

Terry insists that he and his suspended team-mates will be giving 100% in the lead-up to Saturday's game despite their non-participation, as the team readies itself for the final.

"Now we go into a huge week and we can start concentrating on Munich," he said.

"Robbie (Di Matteo) has rested players, hopefully we will have everyone fit, and those of us that are suspended have been playing games and we still have a big part to play this week in training and preparation."

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