Saturday's FA Cup quarterfinal at Everton provides Chelsea with the chance to continue their quest for a trophy in what has been a calamitous season.
The Blues, dumped out of the Champions League by Paris St-Germain this week, are a pale shadow of the side that dominated English football last season. Everton will go into the cup tie confident they can progress to the semifinals at the first time of asking.
Guus Hiddink has won all six of his FA Cup matches in charge of Chelsea, but the fact that one of them was against Everton in the 2009 final, the Dutchman's final game in his first stint as temporary Blues boss, will be a profound source of motivation for the Merseysiders, whose fans will be vocal from the start in support of Roberto Martinez's team.