Kepa Arrizabalaga has promised to keep working hard to get back to his best for Chelsea.

The Spaniard after series of howlers which has cost Lampard’s squad points in the PL lost his post to new recruit, Edouard Mendy who was signed from Rennes in the summer for around £20m.

Chelsea wanted a loan switch for the 26-year during the transfer window but nothing materialized, however, the world’s most expensive goalkeeper believes that hard work is key to taking back his post from Mendy.

“I feel good, strong, and confident,” Kepa said at a Spain press conference, quoted on the national team's Twitter account.

????️ @kepa_46: "Me encuentro bien, fuerte, con confianza. Quizás no sea una situación soñada, pero durante la carrera de futbolista a veces toca vivir momentos así. Tengo confianza en darle la vuelta y hacerlo lo mejor posible cuando juegue"#SomosEspaña ????????#SomosFederación pic.twitter.com/j7pmFwzrNI

— Selección Española de Fútbol (@SeFutbol) October 6, 2020

“Perhaps it is not a dream situation, but during the soccer career sometimes you have to live moments like this.

“I'm confident I can turn it around and do my best when I play.

“We all want to play. But I don't think about anything beyond the day-to-day life and focusing on the national team's matches.

“We have three matches and my focus is on them.

“In the life of a footballer there are ups and downs, but in the end what is in my hands is to work.”

Frank Lampard has been decent with his goalkeeper for months since he lost confidence in post as Chelsea’s shot-stopper, jumping to his defence and calming the media’s storm at him.

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His recent mistake at Brighton which led to the equalizer and a second-half howler which gave Sadio Mane his second during Liverpool’s Premier League visit to Stamford Bridge detected that the goalkeeper needed rest to rebuild his momentum.

“I think it has been a difficult time for Kepa, that has been well documented, I know it and he knows it, but we should certainly not jump to that conclusion.

“Also I think, which I have felt quite strongly about in the last week, is also understanding Kepa is a young man and the spotlight on him, I think, has become slightly unfair.

“I have to protect him because I know he is a good lad and playing with absolute professionalism and intent to do the best that he can, as all the squad have to.”

Mendy was in the post against Crystal Palace and kept his side’s first clean sheet in the Premier League, a game Chelsea won by 4-0.