It may not have been obvious from his expression on the touchline, but Avram Grant was more than satisfied following Saturday's 6-0 win over Manchester City.

Prior to the game, many had anticipated a close game between an improving Chelsea team and a high-flying Manchester City, off to their best start to a season for 37 years, but after 90 minutes, the margins were far greater than anyone would have expected.

Grant was delighted with the team's display, pointing to Frank Lampard in the middle of the pitch as a key ingredient in the flowing football that wowed the Stamford Bridge crowd.

'In each game, Frank is better than the game before, and he has a great attitude as a player,' Grant said. 'In the last three games we have seen fantastic assists he made. He is very important for us. We moved the ball very well, and he is a very clever player.'

Despite not scoring, Lampard was the architect for many of Chelsea's goals, and provided the focus for many of our attacks, watching on as Essien, Drogba, Cole, Kalou and Shevchenko found the net.

The nature of victory is what Grant has been talking about since he took over the reigns from José Mourinho, and today provided the perfect example of what the Israeli is after.

'I know that we cannot do it in all the games, but in modern football people come to have fun, and the way of winning is very important.

'I'm smiling now; I enjoyed the winning, and the way of winning. We are in the middle of a process and we continue to do it step by step. Today it's two steps, and it will continue,' Grant confirmed.

'I must say the players have great attitude, and are the main stars here. I have a very good staff, including my two assistants who did a great job.

'We're concentrating on attacking football, how to move right, how to behave right, and how to make them better. That's what we want from the players, but it's more important that they ask it from themselves to make it easier.'

There was also praise for substitute Andriy Shevchenko, who netted his first league goal of the season in the closing stages of the game.

'Shevchenko is a great player with a great attitude. When you see him train you see he is doing his best,' Grant explained, adding: 'It's not easy for a big star to sit on the bench but he is doing it and he scored a very typical goal for Sheva.'

Left out of the 16 today were Shaun Wright-Phillips and Florent Malouda, but Grant insists there are no problems with either player, simply a decision made on the requirements for Manchester City, vindicated by the result.

On Wright-Phillips, he said: 'He is a very good player. In Chelsea there are 25 players in the squad. 95 per cent are internationals and very good players. We can play only with 11 and 5 subs, so each game seven or eight very good players are on the side.

'This is the life in a big team with a big squad. In the last two games Shaun was not in the squad, the next game it can be others. If Malouda was in and others were not you would ask about them. There is no regular starter, what's important for me is the style of the team.'

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