Chelsea skipper John Terry says Frank Lampard is the best player in the world.
"I'm going to be biased and say he is the best, but I really do think that," said Terry after the 3-0 victory at the KC Stadium on Wednesday night. "No one is playing better than him at the moment and he does it season after season. He is different class.
"He's not just done it for one year and tailed off as we have seen a lot of players do. We have seen him for the past four, five, six years playing at a top level, scoring goals, passing brilliantly and working on things he's not so good at in training. He works so hard on his shooting and his running off the ball.
"When we go on a warm-down, he'll be doing laps around the field on his own. He is an inspiration to myself and everyone else in the team to push on and give it everything in our short careers."
Lampard's goal at Hull was a delicate chip from an angle, a yard outside of the penalty area, taken first time with his left foot and curling over goalkeeper Boaz Myhill inside the far post.
"It was brilliant," said Terry. "He does that every day in training. He scored a couple of goals like that in pre-season in Asia. I can't speak highly enough of the man. What he gives us in the dressing-room when things aren't going well, what he gives out on the pitch and the stuff behind the scenes that people don't get to see. He puts in a lot of hard work off the pitch and gets his rewards on it."