Chelsea boss Frank Lampard wants a unified squad after it emerged he gave a dressing down to senior player Marcos Alonso.

Lampard said he cannot afford to hold grudges or let issues linger as he briefly addressed his fallout with the left-back at West Brom.

The manager was reluctant to shed any further light on the incident and said: "I'm not going to disclose what goes on in the dressing room. I think that would be wrong, so that was it. It was a game we were disappointed to be 3-0 down at half-time.

"I had to make changes and all I ask from all the players is whatever, for good or for bad, the players stick together in every moment as that is the only thing that brings a successful group so that's as much as I've got to say on it."

The future of both of Chelsea's left-backs, Alonso and Emerson Palmieri, have been uncertain for some time and even more so following the arrival of Ben Chilwell from Leicester.

But Lampard said: "It doesn't affect anything ongoing. I cannot have grudges or feelings in games that carry on.

"We work, we're honest with each other and we carry on working to get better and better and things happen during the course of the season, they happen a lot."