The Blues left Abu Dhabi with a new piece of silverware for our trophy cabinet, and the celebrations afterwards reflected the magnitude of our achievement.

However, matters closer to home are back on the agenda with three games in three different competitions in the next eight days, starting with a tricky trip to Selhurst Park this afternoon. Our midseason conquest of the Club World Cup has left Jorginho in a reflective mood as we approach the final three months of the 2021/22 campaign.

‘It’s very good to win a trophy as early as February, but I also believe the most important thing is for us to stop, analyse and be honest with ourselves,’ says the Italian international.

‘We have to see what wasn’t working; to not only go on the emotion and the momentum of "we won a trophy and now everything is going to work" because it’s not like that.

‘So now we have to sit down, analyse what wasn’t working, what did work and why it worked, because we have a few months until the end of the season, and that is the most important part of the season.

‘If we get carried away by the emotion and the excitement, this can get lost,’ he added.

‘You need to find that balance of "this is great, we’re capable", and on the other hand "we have these mistakes we need to improve.’’'

In the Middle East we battled past Al Hilal and Palmeiras, and those games came on the back of an extra-time success against League One Plymouth in the FA Cup.

It is fair to say the Blues have not been at our fluent best in recent months, not helped by a packed fixture list and injuries and illness piling up, and Jorginho believes there is an area we can improve on.

‘A winning team is a team that finds a way to win, even in difficult times. So there is a positive side on this. You have to fix the side where you could create more chances to make the match easier, and we have to look at this.

‘On the other hand, in tougher times you manage to find ways to win. And that was something that we honestly failed to do in a few matches, where we dropped points. We weren’t that team that finds a way to win, even struggling.

‘You’re not going to win 38 matches. And even on the wins, you’re not always going to be brilliant. So you have to find ways to win even if you’re not playing so well.’