Fabregas: ‘Como must play our football, not scared of Champions League’

Cesc Fabregas insists Como ‘must always play the football that got us here’ in the Champions League against RC Lens. ‘You see some teams who look scared and scrape a point.’

It kicks off at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens Agglo at 20.00 GMT (21.00 CET).

This is only the second ever away fixture in Como’s Champions League history, and so the pressure is on to do the job even on unfamiliar territory.

So far in this historic campaign, they have beaten both RB Leipzig and Manchester United 4-1 at the Stadio Sinigaglia, but lost 3-2 away to Feyenoord.

Fabregas has faith in Como

“Every game is different and obviously we want to win, so I pick the players who are most suitable at this moment, there are four or five who can make the difference off the bench too, so fitness levels were influential,” Fabregas told Sky Sport Italia about his starting XI.

“It doesn’t matter if we are home or away, each match is important, but there is a lovely atmosphere here and it’s a good experience for us.”

The injuries remain substantive, missing Moise Kean, Trevoh Chalobah, Assane Diao, Jesus Rodriguez and Jayden Addai, so Tasos Douvikas is the only available centre-forward, but Martin Baturina is rested.

Como have won their last five competitive matches in a row, and have a huge fixture coming up this weekend in Serie A against Inter.