Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan will travel to Stamford Bridge for the second leg of their Champions League tie with Chelsea full of confidence after securing a 2-1 win at the San Siro.
At a stage of the competition when no game is easy - as the results of the eight games confirm with no side leading by more than one goal - a 2-1 home win in the first leg is about as good a result as Mourinho could have hoped for.
"We can go there with a legitimate ambition to go through," he said.
"The most important thing is the result and we are ahead.
"It's not obviously the result which ends the tie, it's not 3-0 or 4-0, but no team is leading by two goals at this stage of the Champions League."
Mourinho will make an emotional return to Stamford Bridge on March 16, but he has no fears about being able to put his own emotions to one side.
"I have to control my emotions and have to be professional like I was today," he said.
"In the tunnel, it is not a normal game for me - and it is not for them either - but when the game starts, it becomes normal for them and for me; they want to win and I want to win.
"At Stamford Bridge, I don't expect anything other than people to be glad to have me back as we worked so well together.
"This time I will go back to a different dressing room, a different dugout and but I know normally Mourinho is lucky at Stamford Bridge."
He was a touch lucky in Milan too, with a first-half penalty not given to Chelsea for a foul on Salomon Kalou in first-half stoppage time.
Despite having 12 attempts on goal, of which six were on target, Chelsea still went in at the break one behind thanks to Diego Milito's third-minute opener.
Kalou's 51st-minute goal gave the Blues hope, but it was short lived as Esteban Cambiasso netted the winner four minutes later, putting Inter in control of the tie.
MOURINHO CONFIDENT OF PROGRESSING
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