Grant pleased with Chelsea progress

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Goals from Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba either side of the break kept Chelsea on top of Group B, and while Grant was happy with the performance - achieved on billionaire owner Roman Abramovich's 41st birthday - he insists it will take time to achieve his desire to turn Chelsea into an attacking force.

Grant declared: "We can play better. But we played positive, good football and scored two goals and could have scored more. We are in first place in the group table with seven points so you can't ask for any more at this stage.

"I think Didier's goal was a very good goal in terms of the combination. It was a very good cross from Paulo Ferreira and Didier scored. I like each goal that comes from a combination like that.

"I don't like to speak about players personally but Didier is a very positive person and he speaks on the pitch as he needs to speak on the pitch - he is doing that very well."

Grant maintained that his vision of an attacking Chelsea is not based on any other club - certainly not London rivals Arsenal who slammed seven past Slavia Prague on Tuesday night.

Grant said: "I respect Arsenal, I respect other clubs but we are not taking an example from other teams, we want to play our game. We are going step-by-step, Arsene Wenger at Arsenal said it took him more than one year and I think we have done well in a short time.

"It is not that it wasn't good in the past, but we are trying to change it and do something else. The past is the past but I respect the past. But we are on the way to playing the game I want. Every game is an improvement. We always want to be better but I don't want to look at the sky and say 'this is the limit', we are playing well at the moment and winning games.

"Arsenal play their football, Manchester United play their football and we want to play ours. We are not taking examples from other teams.

"We want to play as we want to play. It will be positive, good football most of the time. That is what is important. Other teams play their style."