Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud is full of praise for manager Frank Lampard.

Lampard lost his first game in charge at Manchester United , then suffered penalty shoot-out agony in the European Super Cup. Now the pressure is turned up before they play Leicester.

Giroud said: “Even though we lost important players, I feel this squad is very strong in both quality and quantity. We have a super mentality and I'm sure we can do good things this year.

“He always tries to be very positive. He's not going to be tough with us when we're not doing well or put us above the moon when we are doing well.

“He is always trying to analyse the situation and he was very proud of our performance after the games. He said it was tough to lose like that, but we need to keep our heads up.

“We hope to look forward and winning this first game at home will be important for us. It's been tough, but we need to recover now.

“We need to remember what we've done and there are a lot of positives to take in the defeats."