THE LOWDOWN FROM LAMPARD

Not for the first time in the career of Chelsea, Frank Lampard crucial targets in the north-west of England when the Blues travel to Blackburn on Saturday.After stagnating in the first half, it was vice-captain of the 50-minute header sealed the three points in the tightly contested fixture. It was the 10th goal for Chelsea against Blackburn."I am committed to the post but the ball still dipped on me, so finally I almost go to the floor," he said when he talked through the game and the moment to decide."I am very pleased to see it go because it was a tough game for us. First half is an event that really did not but obviously we have to win the game in any way and we do them: not at our best, but we won."We were fortunate at the end when they had some chances," he admits, "but we had several opportunities to kill the game. When you are 1-0 up you know they are going to launch it on you and when you only have one goal cushion was hard."But it's very important to get three points on the board, there will be other weeks when we can play football better and score more goals."Lampard admitted the performance was the lack of advantage in the first round but noted improvement after changes have been made."We did not do enough in the final third for sure. Was a little more urgency is needed, we said at halftime that we needed to turn. We bring Fernando [Torres] and put Daniel [Sturridge] out on the wing because we wanted to have a little more advanced. 'When the main concern for Chelsea fans in the first half came when Yakubu broke through but could not score and Ashley Cole's clash with Petr Cech after tracking back."I do feel sorry for Pete, he took a whack terrible," said Lampard. "We knew he had a war in the past, so every time he took a knock heads, we had a bit of a panic him. Nose bleed a lot and it took a little time to get the game started again, but credit to him for having the character and tranquility to continue."He had a large bandage in the second half and I saw him at one point and his eyes were watery and he did well to make the save on him."As a team you are doing themselves proud on a clean sheet and if we can get a run of them again then we will certainly in the right direction."