Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has revealed his players ignored a key instruction towards the end of Saturday's 3-3 draw with Southampton.

The Blues were ahead heading into the dying moments before Jannick Vestergaard equalised for the visitors.

And Lampard said he instructed his players to play the ball long to wind down the clock.

"I certainly didn't want to play brave football in the last moments of the game," Lampard said. "That was my message to them, that I wanted them to go longer and break the press. I don't think the players did that enough.

"We tried to play too much and some of that is ingrained in the players that they want to try and play football. That's certainly something I am not a big advocate of with high pressure, as something you can do is miss out the pressure to get the ball high up the pitch and use the players at the other end of the pitch.

"That was probably my biggest disappointment that the players didn't put into action."