Paul Merson believes that Chelsea will advance to the Champions League semi-finals – if the Blues can avoid these two teams in the quarter-finals.

Chelsea will learn the identity of our quarter-final opponents on Friday once the round of 16 fixtures have been completed.

“It was an outstanding week for Chelsea, with wins over Leeds, Dortmund and Leicester, and now with Everton at home next they can get on a roll,” Merson wrote for Sky Sports.

“If the Champions League quarter-final draw goes their way, bar Man City and Bayern Munich, I don’t think too many teams will want to play Chelsea. If they don’t meet those two then I think they’ll get through to the semi-finals.”

“Chelsea are a dangerous animal, they’ve got some unbelievable players and they just need to click – at times against Leicester they did,” Merson added.

“Bad teams don’t score the goals like they did, two of them were unbelievable. Kai Havertz’s flick has to go down as one of the goals of the season, you’re not seeing that on a Sunday morning.

“Graham Potter has switched to three at the back and it’s working. It’s taken a while for him to get it right but it’s 100 per cent better than with four in defence.”