Former Chelsea midfielder Gus Poyet has hailed the management combination of Frank Lampard and Jody Morris as "perfect".

Poyet is pleased to see Lampard giving the club's young players their chance this season.

He told Goal: "You can get one player every year getting through into the first team [from the academy] but there was always someone coming from somewhere else.

"A player needed to perform tomorrow. There is a different way of working and I'm convinced there is no right or wrong.

"Every club, with different people in charge, has a different way of working.

"At Chelsea, for many years, it was, 'We want players to jump on the pitch and that day they will perform' - because of the transfer ban, it was something that needed to be changed.

"This generation of young players have the chance for the first time in many, many, many, many years to take the opportunity of playing for the first team at a young age.

"The main thing was the big, strong and perfect decision of the club to bring Frank Lampard back and have the support of the fans.

"And his assistant, many people don't talk about, Jody Morris, who has been the coach of these kids before he went to Derby County with Frank Lampard.

"That connection of knowing the coach and having the fear as a Chelsea player of having someone like Frank Lampard in front of you, and having the chance to prove that the kids are good enough to play for Chelsea, I think was perfect."