My Attacking Players Need To Score More – Lampard

Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard is not happy with his attacking players because they fail to take responsibility and break down teams that sit deep to defend in the EPL.

The Blues were poor and wasteful vs Bournemouth during their recent defeat, which is no improvement since their losses vs West Ham and Everton.

Speaking recently, Lampard urged Tammy Abraham, Christian Pulisic and Willian and co to step up and carve out goals against defensive teams.

His words, “I don’t think that’s a training ground thing. It is more an on-pitch thing because there is talent in that room that can break a low block with a certain pass, a moment,”

“Firstly, you want to take that moment and take it on and not be safe.

“Secondly, you have to execute it. Today we didn’t do both enough. I think you can work towards it with how you coach, with how you speak to the players and how you trust in them but the final deal is what goes out on the pitch there today.

“So a lot of that is what we do out there. I don’t want to isolate their bravery because we have to be a collective and a group. On a day like today, you have to have players who can break that moment. The whole stadium felt it was a slightly flat day so you say, okay, the responsibility is on the players.

“Today, we spent a lot of time in their half, in the first half, particularly. It is in attacking areas of the pitch [where we need that magic]. We know we concede a lot and that’s probably the nature of the Premier League in the modern-day.

“You even look at Liverpool who are flying but they haven’t kept many clean sheets themselves at times. That’s maybe how it is slightly but we need to score more. That’s for sure. Going into this game, it was clear that we are creating far too many chances that we are not taking.”

“Yes, maybe. I think that a little bit of fatigue can be part of the picture and we will look at that behind the scenes,”

“Probably more for training, a long week.

“We have had a spell now of game after game after game. Sometimes that feels good when you are winning consistently.

“Now we have had difficult results so it might be good for us to go over some things on the training pitch.”