Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert tried to stay positive after defeat to Chelsea.

Lambert dropped the out-of-form Christian Benteke as he tried to find a way to solve their goal problems.

The Scot felt Villa were unlucky against the leaders, but they have now won just twice in their last 20 top-flight games.

"There's a lot of good things to come out of the game for us, we're disappointed to lose. I didn't think we deserved to lose," said Lambert, after his 100th Premier League game in charge.

"Football-wise we played well. I thought the front three were excellent. The performance was very good.

"We're coming into a run of games that, if we play like that, we'll pick up points. It's not just about 17th, we want to go as high as possible. That's the standard they have set themselves."