Cech: We're still confident

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The failure to beat the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge was compounded by their lowest crowd for years, but Cech is adamant that despite their poor start domestically and a miserable result against Rosenborg the team spirit remains buoyant ahead of Sunday's clash with Manchester United.

Cech said: "The spirit is still there, though now is the time for it to come through. It is easy to play when you win every game each week and score five goals. We still have a belief, a confidence. In our last two games, we were superior to our opponents and created a lot of chances."

He added: "We need that killer instinct. You can't just keep wasting chances. At the moment, we're creating lots. The day will come when we create only one or two and we have to put them away.

"Against Rosenborg we had 29 shots, scored once, hit the woodwork, saw them clear the ball off the line. We could have played three days and we'd never have scored more than one goal."

But although they had their chances, the increasing concern for manager Jose Mourinho is the way his side have started to concede goals from set pieces.

Against Rosenborg, Miika Koppinen's goal arrived via a free-kick, needlessly given away by Claude Makelele, and Cech is anxious for them to end that vulnerability.

The Czech international added: "We need to stop conceding from free-kicks. By our high standards, we've conceded too many goals this season from set plays and that wasn't the case last time around.

"We really need to think about that and try to change something, but we are still positive and confident going up to United."