LAMPS: TOP FOUR ISMASSIVE FOR US

FRANK LAMPARD has stressed it is “massively important” Chelsea clinch a top-four place to keep progressing.

Three points from their last two games would guarantee Champions League football next season but they have tough fixtures at Liverpool and against Wolves on the final day.

Chelsea are still in a very strong position considering the challenges they have faced this term with a transfer ban, losing their best player in Eden Hazard last summer and all under a boss who is in his first year in Premier League management.

Lampard wants to keep moving upwards as he knows Chelsea are not only expected to be playing among Europe’s elite, but that it will be crucial to do so in order to attract top names such as Bayer Leverkusen’s Kai Havertz.

“It’s massively important for the club,” said the Blues boss. “Not just for the prestige, but if you’re a club on the world stage like Chelsea have been you want to compete at the highest level and attract players of the highest level.

“It generates money for the club. So you understand why there is such intense scrutiny on who finishes in the top four.

“It would have been unheard of a good few years ago. Now it becomes not a trophy but an accomplishment in itself. We want to move further than that so we look on upwards in the league, but getting into the Champions League has to be an aim for us.

“If we get there it should be something we’re happy with and, from there, how can we move further forward?”

Lampard (above) is quick to remind people that few gave Chelsea much of a chance last summer.

But he says Liverpool’s progress under Jurgen

Klopp has become the template and success story for every big club and that is why he believes the Reds deserve success.

Lampard added: “I understand that we’re behind them - the points and that gap doesn’t lie.

We’ve seen the work of

Liverpool in the last two or three years to understand how they get there.

“We have to work in our own way towards that, to try to close that gap which is still pretty big.”