Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has revealed that Blues boss Carlo Ancelotti is handling the pressure of the race for the Premier League title well and is keeping the players relaxed.
The Italian is also ensuring, however, that no focus is lost as the race enters its crucial concluding phase.
"He is laid back and he is fairly calm but he doesn't take his eye off the targets," Lampard told his club's official website.
"He speaks with authority and lets us know we have to concentrate and give every ounce in every minute of every game we have left.
"The manager won't show too much tension at the moment because you don't want players showing tension, so we're relaxed but we're focused, and that's how he is.
"He's been like that all season, he hasn't changed and that's because he's been in this situation before, he's won Champions Leagues and Serie A before, so he understands he doesn't want to show tension but at the same time he has that focus."
Chelsea travel to face Liverpool at the weekend, and with the Reds still in the race for fourth place, Lampard is expecting a tough encounter.
However, on the back of a 7-0 hammering of Stoke City on Sunday, the England international claims that confidence is high and the aim is to maintain momentum on Merseyside.
"We want to carry momentum through. If you don't turn up and don't play with the intensity we did on Sunday then we'll lose at Anfield, simple as that," the 31-year-old added.
"If we win two games then we win the league, if we don't then we might have to rely on goals, depending on Man United results.
"It's a difficult game, whoever goes to Liverpool understands it's a difficult game whatever stage of the season we're at. We know it's coming, it's there, we've just got to try and win it."
With John Terry absent for the weekend game against the Potters, Lampard produced an inspirational display in midfield wearing the captain's armband, chipping in with two more goals, one from the penalty spot.
"I try to do that whenever I play but when you're missing John you're missing a big personality and a big player. I had the armband and it's nice to show a bit of determination everywhere, it wasn't just me it was Didier Drogba running up front, creating goals, and Ivanovic and Alex at the back defending," he explained.
"[The goal was] one of my best I think. Sam Hutchinson did well to spot me and I was stretching to get there but just managed to cushion it back with the outside of my boot, I enjoyed that one."
The Italian is also ensuring, however, that no focus is lost as the race enters its crucial concluding phase.
"He is laid back and he is fairly calm but he doesn't take his eye off the targets," Lampard told his club's official website.
"He speaks with authority and lets us know we have to concentrate and give every ounce in every minute of every game we have left.
"The manager won't show too much tension at the moment because you don't want players showing tension, so we're relaxed but we're focused, and that's how he is.
"He's been like that all season, he hasn't changed and that's because he's been in this situation before, he's won Champions Leagues and Serie A before, so he understands he doesn't want to show tension but at the same time he has that focus."
Chelsea travel to face Liverpool at the weekend, and with the Reds still in the race for fourth place, Lampard is expecting a tough encounter.
However, on the back of a 7-0 hammering of Stoke City on Sunday, the England international claims that confidence is high and the aim is to maintain momentum on Merseyside.
"We want to carry momentum through. If you don't turn up and don't play with the intensity we did on Sunday then we'll lose at Anfield, simple as that," the 31-year-old added.
"If we win two games then we win the league, if we don't then we might have to rely on goals, depending on Man United results.
"It's a difficult game, whoever goes to Liverpool understands it's a difficult game whatever stage of the season we're at. We know it's coming, it's there, we've just got to try and win it."
With John Terry absent for the weekend game against the Potters, Lampard produced an inspirational display in midfield wearing the captain's armband, chipping in with two more goals, one from the penalty spot.
"I try to do that whenever I play but when you're missing John you're missing a big personality and a big player. I had the armband and it's nice to show a bit of determination everywhere, it wasn't just me it was Didier Drogba running up front, creating goals, and Ivanovic and Alex at the back defending," he explained.
"[The goal was] one of my best I think. Sam Hutchinson did well to spot me and I was stretching to get there but just managed to cushion it back with the outside of my boot, I enjoyed that one."
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