Lampard tells it how it is. Fair play.

Speaking after his two goals helped Chelsea get some form of confidence back in our 7-0 thrashing of Ipswich, Frank Lampard has spoken out and fair play to him. For me anyway, when Frank or JT speak you sit up and take notice because more often than not they will tell it exactly how it is and won't hide behind excuses.

Frank said:

The important thing is not to think we're back but make sure that we carry this performance over and get a few wins together, Earlier in the season we were up at the top of the table playing great stuff but now we're not and it's a test of the squad and a test of the character.

You can't always be winning Leagues and going on a great run where you're winning 5-0, 6-0, 7-0, like we were at the back end of last season. Sometimes it's not rosy and that's when you have to stand up individually, put your hard work in and help the team turn it around.

There was a time like this near the end of the Luiz Felipe Scolari reign when we were struggling to get wins. Everyone has spells like that to an extent but this one has been a little more prolonged over a period of time. That's the upsetting thing. It is certainly time for us to change it now.

Not winning games is the biggest thing that has affected us. There are quite a few reasons for that, a lack of confidence being one of them, but there has also been a lack of quality and work-rate. We need to step it up across the board to get back to where we want to be.

Everyone at Chelsea understands we're not expected to have the run of results we've had. We have high standards and the results we've had the last two months is not the level we expect. The League games coming up are very important and we need to take the spirit and energy we showed against Ipswich, which has maybe been lacking before, into the next few matches.'

(Source-DailyMail)
I am so glad that Lampard has come out and spoke of Work Rate and quality. I posted here about our tempo and shape were to blame and it's linked to our work rate in a way. What's pleasing is the fact that Lampard has pointed this out so we now know that the players know that they need to work harder.

Maybe yesterday was a spring board to better form and results but one thing is for sure, expect first and foremost, Chelsea to work much, much harder in games to continue to get our season back on track.

KTBFFH