Frank Lampard feels the responsibility to keep his team spirit high after two consecutive defeat in the Premier League.

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Chelsea Manager Frank Lampard feels confidence is the key to bounce back against West Ham after two consecutive defeat in the Premier League against Everton and Wolves having going nine games unbeaten in the English competition.

However, the Blues will be hosting the Hammers at Stamford bridge in the London derby and the manager looks to get back to the winning ways after a disappointing last week and he feels his side need to bring on that confidence when they play their next games.

“It’s of massive importance,’ Lampard said. ‘It’s going to be a big test of the players, a test of myself, because it’s my job first to pick the players up. What I saw of the two games, against Everton and Wolves, it was things we were doing really well before, against Leeds particularly, and everyone says we are in great form and wants to talk us up, and we just dropped a level for two games and got punished”

“The basic demands of football are high-speed runs, sprints and being competitive, and we dropped our level 15 or 20 per cent, and in the Premier League that happens. So, the understanding of it for me is clear. The confidence has to remain because we were playing very well, the table’s very tight at the top, we’re much closer to the top than we were last year. So, we just need to remind ourselves a little bit of all the great things we were doing before these two games”.

The Blues manager believes that the strongest parts their game as the areas where they dropped their performance in those two defeats also brings confidence which can make the team return quickly to their fine form as they have shown during their last unbeaten run, which also explains why Lampard isn’t ready to make an extensive tactical change yet.

“I have to do what I believe in and what we have done this season. The unbeaten run probably coincided with us turning to 4-3-3. I felt it was a way forward for us and it’s bringing out a lot of the strengths in the players. We were doing it very well”.

“There are things within that system I want to do, how we were moving the ball and building our play and pressing. We came off that a little bit. It’s not like we were doing things terribly in my opinion, we were just doing things at 70 per cent”.

“For instance, the second goal against Wolves. We were four against two, so you’ve got to make sure you don’t allow the player to turn. It’s counter-pressing situations that against Tottenham we absolutely nailed for 90 minutes. So, there are little things and that’s the lesson for the players to have to react in-game and pick up those moments and get them right”.

Frank Lampard also believe that times and challenges like this add experience and togetherness to a team that is just developing and can later be the making of a great side.

“I just think that with a group that has been together for a long time and maybe suffers some tough moments and failures. Liverpool looked like an absolute machine last year but there would have been moments they went through over those four or so years of Jurgen Klopp where they would have looked at themselves”.

“I played in a team that had that, in the early Abramovich years. We didn’t win the league the first year, we came second. The next year we felt a bit stronger, we’d learned a bit more, and I think that is football”.