Frank Lampard has tried to awaken his gamers sooner than they face Real Madrid through telling them that Chelsea’s surprise Champions League triumph in 2012 got here on the finish of his worst season on the membership.
Lampard has time and again batted away questions linking his new transient function with Roberto Di Matteo taking up as caretaker supervisor 11 years in the past and serving to Chelsea to defy the chances through changing into European champions for the primary time of their historical past. However, midfielder Enzo Fernández has printed that the membership’s period in-between head trainer made certain to reference his enjoying occupation all over a speech together with his new squad. Lampard, who faces a problem to restore Chelsea following final week’s dismissal of Graham Potter, didn’t get on with André Villas-Boas sooner than the Portuguese trainer was once changed through Di Matteo halfway in the course of the 2011–12 season.
“Frank talked with the group a bit and he told us to keep our heads straight,” Fernandez stated. “Chelsea is a club with a huge history. He told us he won the Champions League in 2012 and he mentioned it was in his worst moment at Chelsea. A great example for us.
Chelsea, who have been boosted by Thiago Silva, N’Golo Kanté and Mason Mount regaining fitness and traveling to Spain, will be underdogs when they play the first leg of their quarter-final against Madrid. But Lampard believes his side can answer doubts over their character at the Bernabéu. “A quarter-final is an occasion and we have to play the occasion because levels go up at this point in the competition,” the 44-year-old said. “But we have come here with the belief that we can perform under that pressure.
“We have to follow the idea because in a high-level game the biggest thing can sometimes be the mentality – following through with what the idea is under pressure. At this level you have to be spot on with our game to take it back to Stamford Bridge in front of our supporters.”
Lampard’s squad accommodates a large number of younger gamers. “I think you can only become a leader in action,” he stated. “There is not any level in being known as a pacesetter except you do it at the pitch. We have a large number of gamers who’ve a large number of titles so we will be able to’t name ourselves totally younger. Games like the next day to come are a really perfect probability to accomplish and display character.
“It’s standard in a season the place a membership like us falls underneath the degrees we wish, the nature will get puzzled. The most effective factor the gamers can do is turn out it at the pitch. People can see it the place they are able to see it. You can communicate up to you wish to have however the gamers have to turn it at the pitch.
“I’m completely now not wondering the reality they have got a large number of persona as a result of I’ve observed the dressing room and perceive soccer. There is persona. Nobody desires to win soccer fits. But occasionally gamers can take a success on self assurance and occasionally a insecurity can appear to be a loss of persona.”
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Chelsea, who lost against Madrid at this stage last year, should be stronger with Kanté fit again. “N’Golo is a distinct participant,” Lampard said. “It’s a favorable that he is again.”
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