By Tom Gott | Oct 18, 2020, 9: 45 AM GMT+1
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has insisted that everybody enthusiastic with the important personnel need to work on their game management after the Blues slipped to a 3-3 blueprint with Southampton on Saturday.
Lampard’s aspect absorb been electric in the important half of and roared to a 2-0 lead, nonetheless allowed Southampton to claw it relieve to 2-2. And no topic restoring their lead rapidly after, Chelsea once more conceded lifeless because the Saints netted deep into damage time to snatch a level.
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Conceding lifeless on and giving up leads is nothing new to Lampard, who has faced heavy criticism for his decision-making when Chelsea are in the ascendancy, and the boss confessed (by the usage of soccer.london) that game management is one thing the personnel nonetheless need to work on.
“Certain, there would possibly well be positively a game management ingredient of it in a game,” he acknowledged. “We are going to need to absorb a lead and seek for it off. We turnover the ball that resulted in the free kick and then it’s the 2nd balls. There’s a range of facets that resulted in it, you would possibly well per chance well recreate that in practising and focus on about it plenty nonetheless it’s fully disappointing when it occurs.
“I don’t mediate it’s conceding targets due to the form of the personnel. Obviously we now absorb changed the form and I in spite of the full lot need to manufacture these decisions with the personnel we now absorb and getting the one out of them. That is one thing I in spite of the full lot need to mediate of, nonetheless it doesn’t mean I’m tiring dilemma on sticking with that formation and there also will most likely be changes and tweaks to it as we tear alongside. It’s one thing we now need to continue working on. It is miles a switch.
“Commerce needs work on the practising ground, we haven’t had remarkable of that so now and once more the work in progress is in video games and on the present time there absorb been hundreds of huge issues from the 4-2-3-1, in particular in the important half of.
“In the 2nd half of I wouldn’t blame the form of the personnel, extra that we didn’t handle the fact that Southampton absorb been in spite of the full lot enthusiastic to put us below stress of their own half of. We desired to neglect out their press, we didn’t have ample and that supposed we turned the ball over in our own half of, which no topic shape is commonly a discipline.”
Lampard additionally leapt to the defence of goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, who made a handful of approved saves nonetheless once more made a costly error as he pulled out of a challenge and proficient Che Adams a routine aim.
“I became talking about Kepa sooner than and he makes about a in spite of the full lot approved saves in the match,” the boss continued. “But clearly eyes will most likely be drawn to the 2nd aim and I have in mind that since it wasn’t correct Kepa who became enthusiastic about that aim. That is the depressed world of a goalkeeper.
“[Édouard] Mendy is on the minute injured and potentially will most likely be match in the subsequent week or two weeks and then that will most likely be the decision for me to manufacture about who plays.”
