Cesc Fabregas has admitted to forgetting how to play football during Chelsea's form slump earlier this season.

The Spanish midfielder, along with his Blues colleagues, suffered a massive downturn in fortunes in the first half of the club's Premier League title defence which hit a low during the month of November.

Fabregas acknowledges that he was so far out of touch during a stage of the campaign that he actually failed to remember what he was doing on the pitch.

"One time after a game, after Bournemouth, I was in bed and I spoke to my wife," he told Goal.com during a Q&A at a Puma launch in London.

"I forgot how to play football, I have the ball and I don't know what to do with it.

"It was hard, those two or three months from November, when I had no confidence."

Fabregas, who has rediscovered his best form in recent months, added: "Everything has changed in the last few months, I'm playing very well.

"Most importantly, it isn't how you get [knocked] down, it's how you get back up. I can be better now."