FRANK LAMPARD insists there has been no ‘‘crisis’’ meeting with Fabio Capello and wants him to stay as England coach even if their World Cup campaign comes to a premature end.

The midfielder was paraded before the media to try and diffuse the impact of Chelsea team-mate John Terry’s comments 24 hours earlier.

Terry claimed the players were going to air their views on what they felt needed to change to revive England’s hopes of reaching the last 16 after a below-par performance against Algeria.

But Lampard is adamant a DVD re-run of the goalless draw was all that was on the agenda when the squad gathered with Capello and his staff at the team hotel on Sunday night.

However, Capello did stray from his normal approach when he announced Matthew Upson will play alongside Terry in central defence against Slovenia.

Lampard, though, tried to play down the impact of Terry’s outburst as the thoughts of a player who has passion to play for his country and does not want to make an early exit from the tournament.

And Lampard hopes Capello will remain at the helm even if England lose to Slovenia tomorrow and have to head for home.

Lampard said: ‘‘I saw some of his comments and John is very passionate as are all 23 members of this squad. He has been here a long time and is an experienced player.

‘‘He was talking about being 100 per cent behind the manager, that the team wanted to turn it around.

‘‘One of us gets put up every day to speak and John was trying to convey the message that we are going to fight and try and turn things around.’’ Lampard added: ‘‘I don’t like talking about meetings because the reason we have meetings together is so they can stay in-house.

‘‘But it certainly wasn’t a crisis meeting. The manager spoke, we watched some of the Algeria game and we had a look at things that we need to put right – and that was it.

‘‘On the other hand, if the players do want to speak to the manager or (general manager) Franco Baldini, the door is always open for them to speak to them.

‘‘I think people have jumped on things, saying it was a huge crisis meeting with people having it out. But at the meeting yesterday, we just dealt with the Algerian game.

‘‘In terms of team selections and tactics, I’ve always grown up in football where the manager dictates those sort of things.”