Lampard: "If I didn’t want that challenge I could have sat on the telly and done an easier job''

The boss is under pressure after 4 defeats in the last 6 games it's not a surprise for Lampard who's been in football for all of his life.

If he did not want that pressure he would not have gone into management at all, Lampard argues.

"I enjoy the challenge of it," Frank Lampard told reporters who asked him how the increasing pressure changes his job.

"The thing I do now when we’re in a tough moment is I ramp up the intensity of how we work, but the message is the same as when we were on our unbeaten run. I’m very confident in what I do, whether people want to think that I’ve been a manager for two-and-a-half years or whatever.

"I’ve been playing football since I could walk. I’ve been playing professionally for 20-odd years and I tried to take as much in, in those days, as I do now. I want to win games. I don’t like losing games.

"On Monday, I am disappointed because we lost a game to a team that was better than us on the day. On Tuesday, I wake up and I’m determined to get better and win our next game. That’s the only way I see it.

"If I didn’t want that challenge I could have sat on the telly and done an easier job. I could have been a pundit commenting on what everyone does with hindsight and I don’t want to do that."

After a run of results that has seen Chelsea slip down to the ninth place in the Premier League table, Lampard is under pressure as the Blues manager, with the club hierarchy exploring options to replace him. It's not been reported how much time the boss could be given to turn it around.