Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has denied there is a player power problem at his former club.

Blues manager Maurizio Sarri was involved in an on-field argument with goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga when he refused to be substituted in the EFL Cup final earlier this season.

But Lampard has blasted what he believes is a "cheap and easy" to describe the situation.

"It was massively overplayed," Lampard told Goal "It was overplayed to the point where it was false. We had a massive strength at Chelsea. We had fantastic managers at different times, but the strength was that the dressing room wanted to win and had a real desire to be winners.

"That's certainly what I want as a dressing room, as a manager now. It is a very cheap and easy statement to say a problem at Chelsea is player power. Chelsea is a club that has changed managers. It is a club that demand results.

"I think rightly so, it has gone into that bracket now, and it has a way of working. I think as a player, all I would worry about is what I did every week. Was I at my best? All John Terry concerned himself about was that. Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack, Petr Cech and Ashley Cole; They were all great professionals.

"So if you call having strong personalities as a player [a weakness], then I think that's a cheap and easy way to look at it. It became more of a media word than something that was real. The fact is that Chelsea were not winning enough games in a period of time.

"They are getting judged just as Manchester City do, Manchester United do and Liverpool do. It is such a top end job and such a top end club that people look into every avenue when results are not perfect. I think player power was the first call, 'let's look at player power'. It is not the right answer."