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The Blues coach feels his team will learn a lot from the loss to a team that surpassed them
Frank Lampard has admitted that his side was not good enough during their 1-0 loss to Everton, and feels it was a reality check for those who have said that Chelsea have the best team in the division and are the favorite for the Premier League title.
The Blues fell behind on a penalty from Gylfi Sigurdsson at Goodison Park on Saturday and were unable to shape an answer.
Lampard says his team did not withstand the physical challenge Everton posed and feels lessons will be learned from acting.
The loss is the first in any competition since the loss to Liverpool on September 20, and Lampard says it is an indicator that his team should not be classified as a title favorite, as Reds manager Jurgen Klopp recently said. .
“It’s a long season,” Lampard said. BT sport. “If it makes people who talk about us say that we are going to win the league, we have the best squad in the league. It’s ridiculous.
“When you talk about better squads, you have to look at the teams that have won them in the last two, three, four years. Their squads are full of forwards and wingers who score 30 or 40 goals per season and midfielders who have won multiple league titles everywhere.
“We have some, but we have young players and as a squad we are not.
“In two or three years if I’m still here and I have a couple of leagues in my pocket and you ask me if we’re title contenders, I’ll say yes, but right now people want to look at our squad and talk about it.
“It is very fast that it has passed West Brom and Southampton and we were not good enough, garbage, useless. Now last week we have the best squad in the league and we are going to win it.
“We are probably somewhere in the middle and that’s the reality.”
Commenting on the display from his side, Lampard said: “We were not at our best. The first 20 minutes were key. I knew it was coming, longer balls, second balls, a team desperate for victory and with the capabilities to make it really difficult.
“When you go 1-0 down, it’s absolutely their game plan that makes it difficult. They did well and we didn’t have enough. For our levels, for what we have been recently, it is not good enough.
“The guys are devastated because we’ve been on a roll. It was a great test and we failed the test, but we will in the future. “
Everton’s winning goal from the penalty spot came after goalkeeper Edouard Mendy ran off his line and fouled Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
It wasn’t a great decision for Mendy, but Lampard said he had been outstanding since arriving from Rennes.
“I don’t think he was just guilty,” Lampard said. “He’s been outstanding since he was here, so I’ll stick with that one.”
