Fabregas targets final spot

Cesc Fabregas is determined to reach the UEFA Champions League final again this season.

He told Spanish radio EFE: "Obviously, everybody dreams, but you have to work hard to make dreams become reality. If you stay in bed then you are never going to obtain your dream.

"I am dreaming of playing in another Champions League final. If it is against Barcelona it will be difficult, because they have a great team.

"All I want is another chance of playing in a final, whoever that is against.

"If we won, then in five years' time nobody will care who the opposition was."

"I would have preferred to play a European team," he said.

"To play in the Champions League against the same players that you play every week and see on the television, well, I would have preferred Barcelona, Madrid, an Italian team.

"But this is what we have been given and we have to deal with it."

Fabregas' compatriot Fernando Torres has been in scintillating form for Rafa Benitez's men in recent weeks and the Arsenal midfielder is wary of the threat he will present.

"When somebody comes to England there's always doubt on how they are they going to adapt, but he's performing at an incredible level," Fabregas added in The Sun.

"English football fits him like a glove. He's strong, quick, has power, a great finish and, above all, he knows how to find space, which is fundamental over here."