Lampard demands tunnel vision with record on line

Frank Lampard has told his Coventry City side to forget the pursuit of a "magnificent seven" and focus on the football.

The Sky Blues can set a new club record of seven successive league wins with victory at Wrexham on Friday night.

But former Chelsea and England midfielder Lampard wants to head off the danger of his Championship leaders believing the hype their run is helping to create.

"I just want to win games," Lampard told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.

"It won't be forever because this is football. You park the last one, you take the good and bad from it and you move on to the next one. That's all we are doing. Everyone else can talk about records.

"Confidence and momentum are great but understand that if you drop your levels then you'll lose both of those very quickly in this game. There's always that to guard against.

"Yes, it's good we promote confidence and momentum, keep going and have a good feeling on the training ground but keep doing everything right and understand everything can always improve.

"We have to analyse the opposition and understand how dangerous every game is in its own way.

"Wrexham have got some good results already this season against some big teams in the league - which we saw them do at the weekend [drawing at Middlesbrough]."

Wrexham's point at Boro allowed Coventry to move three points clear at the top of the Championship.

The Sky Blues, who lost to Sunderland in the play-offs after finishing fifth last season, are now favourites to clinch automatic promotion to the Premier League.

Wrexham, who lie 16th in the table, have found life in the second tier more of a challenge after three successive promotions but Lampard loves the fact they have brought a taste of Hollywood to the division.

"It's a brilliant story that we've all followed to some degree," he said.

"I played against Wrexham many years ago on loan at Swansea - I think I gave a penalty away. I lunged in when I shouldn't have done.

"To think where that stadium was at then and where the team was at then... it's got a big following now. The owners have come at it from a different angle, with a lot of passion and everyone has bought into it.

"Of course we want to win the game but as a story I think it's fantastic. We should promote those stories of clubs that have come up and invested and have tried to have a go in the Championship - and they are having a go."