We’ve found ten instances of Frank Lampard, almost always unprompted, offering us a glimpse behind the curtain at a dressing-room of buzzwords where the tactics board sits idle in the corner.
You may well have noticed Frank Lampard’s dedication to revealing what he told his players at half-time in his post-match interviews. This almost always happens when Chelsea, or whichever team he’s somehow managing at the time, stage a comeback through his pearls of wisdom, which he clearly deemed unworthy of mention, say, *before* the games.
Well hold on Frank, we’re not sure how we can be expected to listen to that and not come to the conclusion that you are really bloody clever. You mean to say your message to the players was that they could draw or win a game they were losing, and of the three likeliest scorelines you put forward to make that a reality, one of them was the actual result? Genius.“For me the main thing in the first half-hour was not the tactics, it was the spirit and the fight.
“I said to the players at half-time, I’ve sat there and had those days. I sat there, had those days and lifted a trophy at the end of the year.” Lampard was referring to the 3-0 defeat to Middlesbrough in 2006, at which point Chelsea were 12 points clear in the Premier League having won 21 of their 26 games in Jose Mourinho’s second season. At half-time against Manchester City in 2021, Chelsea were eighth after seven wins from 17 games. Lampard was sacked two weeks later. “In terms of the game, it was comfortable in the end.
“It was like ‘OK, we’ve changed to 4-3-3. We are going to change Dele – bring on Dele for legs and energy. Can you get nearer the front men?'”
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