Frank Lampard Press Conference post Real Madrid 2-0 Chelsea (12/04/2023)

What are your immediate thoughts after that and with two Neils? Is the challenge big enough now or does the door still feel open for the second look? I think both things are a great challenge, of course, a team of the quality of Real Madrid, but the door is open, it is up to us whether everyone opens it more next week or not, that is my immediate thought. I think there's a mixed emotion about the game. I think it's big for the 11-man period we were in the game. and we had some opportunities, I think we can do better and I think I've been here for a short time and there are definitely things where I think we can use our strengths better, especially with the full-back system, where we can be more urgent.

Given a problem with that, those are things that myself, the staff and the players have to work on because I could because I could see an opportunity there tonight in white, so we didn't take advantage of the spirit at the end of the game. The men here for half an hour asked me: do you understand that a lot of things can happen and that? I don't think we've given them many chances, so I like that part and we have to believe that I need to. To be the first to believe this is possible foreigner, what did you think about his performance?

Part of the reason I think we have uh, I had different things to consider. Vanessa's 1v1 is a big problem for any team and so we wanted to be able to create 2v1 on that side of the pitch obviously didn't help getting any yellow cards for the finals, so early it makes you nervous about it. , but he applied it and you know it's very difficult to control so that was part of the thinking and with about five you don't want to be a back five as much as you can um and we try hard but sometimes Madrid always takes you to that and then when we had the ball we want to be a three and we want to use the width and the field and as I mentioned there, I think we could have done a little better.

I think it was a weapon for us today, we were able to get the ball out of the

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ure and get it to size. I think we can do more, but in terms of the system, the idea was very clear: yes, deal with their threats, but also give us possession control of the game, which I think we could have gotten more of if we had done that. I'm honest, Gary Frank, you've known many special magical nights at Stanford Bridge. Collo Angelotti says two to zero and the tie is not over. Are players and fans supposed to believe there could be another special night if they don't? in high level sport, I don't think things go the way you want, I mean, a percentage of the game is a mentality and a belief, um, and the fans will come and support us, you know, we

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Tune in against Real Madrid, but that's a fact, it's already done. But I've been involved while you say games that change. We're in a different place now and maybe that's a good thing because we're in a place where we want to be. to show that some things are wrong to change the tone to change the story and you know, tonight we went with 10 men against Real Madrid, it's a difficult night for the boys, so I see that in the end they are disappointed, but I also saw that they gave. everything in that final part of the game, but it will be different next week and you know they are in we are not favorites, we were not favorites yesterday and we are not favorites today and that is football and um, the chances are ours if we can take them Gentleman, in the right time, good night.

I would like to ask what the mentality is for the second leg and what can be said about Diego Félix's game. Thank you. I think the Rahim and Joe Félix game was a difficult game in the system we played defensively. I have to work hard and their main threat can sometimes be counterattacking or protecting the ball. And it was a tough night, I think for us at the top end of the field, but Joe was a great talent and so was Raheem, so I'm not here to criticize or comment too much or go away and analyze that side in terms of the second game. , we have 90 long minutes of football, so I think our approach has to be balanced and I think you can play with that balance against Real Madrid with their attacking threats, but we also don't have to have extra urgency in our game to have the feeling that we can. an idea of ​​how we can be more forceful with that game at Stanford Bridge, the fans will help, the atmosphere will help, but also our job in the meantime is to prepare the team as best we can to turn the game around, but we have 90 minutes, no the first 10 minutes, we have 90 minutes to try to achieve it.

Frank, you've said that you think there's a lack of faith and that maybe that's why we could see the goalless streak. I was just wondering what practical,

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istic things you can actually do. I will do over the next week to change that with the players and then the team as a whole gets that question a lot and my first feeling is their work on the training pitch, but when I consider the work we do, we work a lot. in the final third you already know in terms of shots and crosses and the idea of ​​how we want to get into the box, so I think it's pretty clear.

I don't think we can go much further than we do without the last part. sometimes trust and, you know, there's an individual thing or a team trust, so I think I'll probably go back to the work side there and, if you work and continue and something can change, you know, Mason's opportunity at the end could come in and this tire feels completely different in the early parts of the game, we might get a goal that gives the 90 minutes a different feel, so keep working, talk to the place where no player doesn't want to score a goal, if you know .

What I mean is that the players want to do it so sometimes they need support, confidence and push in a positive way and not just before next week, it's my job until the end of the season because it's been happening and I get into this, so my job is to try to address it as best as I can, yes, we have time for two more, we're going to go there gentlemen, and then finish it overseas because the defense wasn't defending everyone in the box, right? Do you think it was a tactic? problem or just that a team did not respond adequately in defense it was not a tactical problem it was a um and not changing the problem not being focused in the moment um if you look if you look back at the goal that I have, we were not um We are not prepared as We should, we are with one man less, but in a set piece we still have to control the basics and that is a disappointment because I don't think Real Madrid created many opportunities at that time.

That period with 10 men, so I prepared the piece, we should not concede for sure Frank on your right here front row front row here yes, you mentioned that the second Megatron bridge Stanford will be a challenge for the club will be a challenge Also regarding your future at the club I don't know because it changed my future I'm here for a while until the end of the season it's been pretty clear and I took this job under that idea and I completely understand it so I think the things that happen in between I'm not thinking about what could happen in May or June.

I'm thinking about what kind of control now, so I don't see it that way. I'll get that question a lot over the next six weeks. In general, in my opinion, I am here for this period after that we will see, okay, we will end there. Thank you all, applause, thank you. Don Davido Spanish is football. Los Angeles it is. important