Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has put his Chelsea goalscoring form down to being dropped earlier in the season.<br /><br />Lampard scored his seventh goal of the season to earn his side a 1-0 win over Blackburn at Ewood Park on Saturday.<br /><br />The England international's Chelsea future was questioned when he was left out against Swansea on 24 September.<br /><br />"Being left out of the team spurred me on," Lampard told BBC Radio 5 live. "The minute you're taken out of the team people talk."<br /><br />Lampard's winner at Blackburn was his sixth league goal of the campaign and ended his club's two-match losing run in the league.<br /><br />He is confident of bettering last season's tally of 15 goals for club and country after admitting a spell on the sidelines made him work harder.<br /><br />"I trained hard and I've won my place back in the team," he added.<br /><br />Lampard is hoping Chelsea can kick-on after returning to winning ways against struggling Blackburn.<br /><br />It was hardly a vintage Chelsea performance but it helped erase some of the memories of the 5-3 home defeat to Arsenal on 29 October.<br /><br />"Blackburn was a big game for us, and a tough one for us on paper. I'm very pleased we got the three points, albeit not at our best," added Lampard.<br /><br />"We had to address the manner we lost the Arsenal game. We have to press better and not give people space. You can see the benefit, in that we kept a clean sheet."<br /><br />Lampard had special praise for keeper Petr Cech, who played for most of the game with a broken nose after a collision with Ashley Cole and Blackburn striker Yakubu.<br /><br />"He took a hell of a whack," added Lampard.<br /><br />"I looked over at him at one point and his eyes were watering. He's certainly been in the wars."
