Confident Kalou outlines treble target

Salomon Kalou has not ruled out Chelsea FC ending the season with a treble of trophies after the Blues defeated fellow UEFA Champions League contenders Arsenal FC 2-1 in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday.

Exciting climax
Guus Hiddink's team recovered from conceding Theo Walcott's early goal by levelling through Florent Malouda before the in-form Didier Drogba rounded goalkeeper Łukasz Fabiański and slotted in the winner with six minutes to play. That earned the west Londoners a ninth FA Cup final appearance, against an Everton FC side they will also meet at Stamford Bridge tonight in a dress rehearsal for the 30 May showpiece. Before that date, however, Kalou and Co will attempt to overhaul Manchester United FC's four-point advantage at the Premier League summit and reach the final of Europe's premier club competition in Rome on 27 May.

Treble chance 
To achieve the latter goal, Chelsea have the unenviable task of beating FC Barcelona over two legs in the last four, but for Kalou "everything is possible". "As long as there are games and we keep winning then there is a possibility of winning all three," the Ivory Coast striker told uefa.com. "We have to keep doing what we are doing by working hard as a team and I think we can achieve that."

'Beat anybody' 
Having eliminated Liverpool FC in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals and dashed Arsenal's hopes of a first domestic trophy since the 2005 FA Cup, the 23-year-old is savouring the prospect of tackling the Spanish Liga pacesetters. "It will be a good game," he added. "We have played Liverpool, Arsenal and then it's Barcelona in a couple of weeks; these are the types of games everyone wants to play in. We have to go there [to Barcelona, for the first leg on 28 April] and make the job possible. It's going to be a really hard game but we have the team to beat anyone."

United rematch?
Should Chelsea progress to a second successive European final, Kalou would love to face United and atone for last season's agonising 6-5 loss to the Red Devils on penalties in Moscow. "We could even play Manchester United again," said Kalou, scorer of a Chelsea spot-kick in that shoot-out. "They are always there and we are too, so we are always going to meet. They are playing really well and are strong, but I think Chelsea are back at the top level so it would be good to play them."