Chelsea boss Frank Lampard insists there's positives to take from their 2-1 defeat at Manchester City.

For large spells Chelsea dominated the champions, reflected by the fact they had more possession than City. N'Golo Kante put Chelsea, but City fought back with two quickfire goals and eventually emerged victorious.

"Coming into the game, our recent form and how we're developing quickly, I wanted to come here and be brave, to compete, to be brave on and off the ball," said Lampard.

"In the first half you saw all of that from us. At 1-0 we have relative control of the game. We didn't have that little bit of quality in the final third. They had a couple of moments but we were playing well. Throughout the game there were a lot of positives, but we lost and it shows you at this level the finer details in both boxes are what decide these ones.

"Today I don't think you come away from the game and say anything other than there were two really strong teams going against each other. One wins it because of a deflected goal, and then a real moment of quality from Mahrez. The rest was pretty much in the balance."