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Chelsea manager Frank Lampard confirmed that he is putting all his focus on improving the team’s shortcomings in the coming period, following declining results in the English Premier League.
Chelsea have achieved one victory in the last 6 matches and lost 4, dropping the team’s ranking to eighth place with 26 points after 17 matches.
The final blow was a 3-1 loss to Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Matchday 17 of the League.
“We went through tough times last season, but we had circumstances, and people didn’t look at them the way they did this season. I’m the first person to put pressure on me, so I felt the pressure last season,” Lampard said after the game.
“I wanted to finish the league in better place than fourth, but it was an achievement in light of the ban on signing contracts and playing for a youth team, and we also crossed the group stage in the UEFA Champions League,” he added. A loss that is something I used to minimize. “
“You have played here for many years, and when you lose 4 games, people start asking questions,” he continued.
“Expectations are different this season because everyone talks about the money we spend. We spend a lot, but the truth is that the players are young and have not played together for long periods,” he added.
“For the first time, Hakim Ziyech, Christian Polsic and Timo Werner are playing together. If we think that the understanding between them in the match will be like Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling, our expectations will be wrong.”
“I’d rather be realistic. So my talk was true after the Leeds game when I said we wouldn’t compete for the title. I was right when I said teaming up is painful.”
He added: “I remember how things were happening with Pep Guardiola in his first year with Manchester City, but now everyone knows the story. Teams inform each other by fighting and character.”
He underlined: “We know the stories of City and Liverpool, I don’t compare myself with them, I only talk about my team. In the first half, it came up why Chelsea are going through a difficult period. We have to fight, and I will be the first. in fighting. “
“We are trying to get to the level of teams that won a lot during Roma Abramovich (the club president), but we have not reached this stage yet. If we do not count Ngolo Canto and Thiago Silva, we will find that the team is made up of players. young and new trying to adapt. “
Regarding the rumors about his dismissal by the board, he said: “I cannot respond to his way of thinking during the difficult period Chelsea are going through, just as I did not know his way of thinking when there was a conversation about the renewal of my hired a month ago. “
“Our career will not be full of permanent ups and downs. There were failures for 16 games, so I will not think about the management thinking, because that will distract me,” he said.
Lampard is Chelsea’s record scorer with 211 goals, having played for the team from 2001 to 2014.
Lampard coached Chelsea last season, 2019-2020, where the team finished fourth in the English Premier League and qualified for the Champions League.
Chelsea are preparing to play Morecambe in the FA Cup third round next Sunday, and then they will visit Fulham in the 18th round of the Premier League.
