Florent Malouda has insisted Chelsea's players are focused on getting a result against Inter Milan tonight and not the return of Jose Mourinho to Stamford Bridge.

Mourinho will take his Inter team to west London on Tuesday looking to protect a 2-1 first leg win in their Champions League first knockout leg.

The match marks the first time the Portuguese has returned to the Bridge as an opposition manager after he left the club in 2007 having won five trophies there.

Malouda, one of the last players signed by Mourinho, said while the fans and media were giving a lot of attention to Mourinho's return, it was not concerning the players themselves.

"It is more important for the fans than the players, we as players just want to beat Inter, that's the main thing," the 29-year-old midfielder said.

"It will be an emotional game for him but for us, as you can see from the first game, it was not disturbing for the players here at Chelsea.

"We are not thinking about history, we are trying to make history. We don't care about the past, we are just looking to win and go through tomorrow evening."

Chelsea lost 2-1 in the San Siro last month and face an uphill struggle to reach the quarter-finals after their first and second choice goalkeepers Petr Cech and Henrique Hilario were ruled out with injury.

But Malouda, who scored once and set up two in a 4-1 win over West Ham on Saturday, said Chelsea were confident they could go through.

"We scored an away goal so normally we just need one goal to go through and I think we must have patience against Inter and keep the balance of the team, so we won't rush to score an early goal, we have to be clever in this game and score, I hope, more than one goal," he said.

"We have the experience of the first game where we had opportunities and just want to take those opportunities and score to go through."