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FOUR LOSSES OF SIX: Frank Lampard has led Chelsea to four losses in the last six games. Photo: Richard Heathcote / POOL / GETTY POOL
(Chelsea 1-3 Manchester City) After the humiliation against Manchester City, there is no Chelsea manager in the Roman Abramovich era with a worse score than Frank Lampard.
After 55 Premier League games as Chelsea manager, Lampard now averages 1.67 points.
There is no one else in the era of Roman Abramovich, which began in the beautiful month of July 2003, who can match, with a negative sign.
The loss meant he “surpassed” Andre Villas-Boas, who only had 27 games at Chelsea, at the bottom of the table. At the opposite extreme are Avram Grant (2.31 points per game), José Mourinho (2.19) and Antonio Conte (2.14), Amazon’s calculation shows:
– I don’t think Frank has much time. The pressure is enormous this season and he must also spend time adapting to new players from abroad. They have spent a lot of money and that increases the pressure, no matter who the coach is, former Manchester United captain Roy Keane tells Sky Sports.
Chelsea has spent just over two billion crowns in calendar 2020, and went from fourth to eighth place on January 3 in both years. This summer’s big buy, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, have struggled enormously to break through, with the former playing his twelfth (!) Straight match without online knowledge on Sunday.
However, Lampard has kept the job for so long.
– I didn’t know the word ‘patience’ existed at Stamford Bridge, Keane says wryly.
The Athletic magazine reported after the Manchester City game that Frank Lampard’s job was “very unsafe”, citing anonymous sources that management has already begun to explore alternatives.
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– He’s new to this, he’s 42 years old. Klopp came from Dortmund and brought trophies from there. Now he meets all these stars: Ancelotti, Mourinho, Guardiola, with resumes on their backs. Lampard won’t get the time Klopp had, Keane believes.
Lampard himself says that he will not go to bed immediately and assures that the match against Manchester City was “painful”.
– A month ago everyone said that we could win the League, but I felt confident that the reconstruction we are doing, the refusal to transfer and all the young boys that we use ended up in painful periods. We have character: we were 16 games without losing. Today I have to look in the mirror, but I know where we are now and what it takes to get to the level that City showed today, he tells Sky Sports, adding that “now the test begins.”
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