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The Blues coach will see his team take on the Premier League’s top scorer on Saturday night
Frank Lampard believes England have a wealth shame out front with Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s appearance at Everton, which means he’s now competing with Harry Kane and Tammy Abraham on the national team.
The trio are currently at the helm to be part of Gareth Southgate’s team for Euro 2020, which will now take place in the summer of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chelsea will try to prevent Premier League top scorer Calvert-Lewin from finding the net on Saturday on his trip to Goodison Park to face Everton.
The 11-goal hit man is a threat to the club and the country, according to Lampard, but is backing his own striker Abraham to rise to the top.
“Yes, it is an exciting battle,” Lampard told reporters via Zoom. “I profess my love for Tammy enough sitting here. He is my player.
“Talking about an opposition player is a bit different, but what I respect about Calvert-Lewin is that, and this is by far because I don’t know him, but it feels like a career he’s really worked on. That sounds simple. but it is not an easy path.
“Not everyone gets into their first team at 17 or 18, except the Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen types of the world. Other players have to find different paths and now it has been proven, last season and particularly this season, He’s consistently an all-round forward. Every part of his game is a real threat.
“When I see him as a rival striker, he has rightly joined the England team and adapted to that, so he is a huge threat to us this weekend and to Everton in the future. That is why he has marked so many “. goals, fair play for him.
“It is a good challenge for England to have some forwards competing and he has thrown himself into that question.”
Saturday’s game will also see Lampard face his former coach Carlo Ancelotti, who coached him between 2009 and 2011 at Stamford Bridge.
Ancelotti posted a career-best 27 goals in all of Lampard’s competitions in the 2009-10 season, which the current Chelsea manager believes was a triumph of his former mentor’s coaching skills.
“I remember that season very well outside of my seasons because it was the season that I didn’t start out very well,” continued Lampard. “Carlo came in and we played in a diamond formation and I played at the top, which on paper It may look good, but it was very difficult for me.
“My game was very fluid and I wanted to have the opportunity to reach the area. I was quite a few games without getting a goal.
“I remember having a really honest conversation with Carlo and he was very open with the way he handled it with me and I remember being really impressed, not just because it meant my position changed slightly and I managed to start playing better, but how he handled that. for me, with [what] it was a difficult period for me.
“From then on, the season was smooth sailing, not only for me, but for the whole team, so it brought a tune from the whole team. It was a difficult team looking back, a very good team, difficult is the wrong word. ” – but we were strong and overloaded in certain areas.
“In this job, I understand that you have to find balance in a team and he found the perfect balance during that matchup and he should take a lot of credit for that. I think he had a very relaxed demeanor about him, which I appreciate, but underneath. that had a hard edge.
“That was very evident, but I certainly enjoyed his general, laid-back demeanor. I didn’t crave too much conversation with my manager, I just wanted to do my job, but with him I always felt comfortable having that face-to-face conversation. I have specific moments from my time with him that I remember.
“One was the night he left the club and actually came and had a couple of beers with us at The Plow down the road in Cobham. On another occasion, when I was in the United States with Andrea Pirlo in Vancouver, we had dinner together at an Italian restaurant and it was a fantastic event.
“I have great respect for him. He has a personal touch, he managed it, and I think the best of all is that he is very upright. He is very honest in everything he does and that is very refreshing.”
