2021/22 Frank Lampard

[EFC_FRANCIS]

We cannot keep sacking managers, we have to stick with what we have and get behind him and the team. That’s the truth that some may not like but it is the truth.

Instead of we cannot keep sacking managers how about we cannot keep appointing terrible ones? The only one with an argument of staying in the job is Silva and even then we were in the bottom 3. The underlying stats for Lampard are awful and if that continues we could well be down and he should be sacked

 

[GoldenToffee]

No excuses for that side he put out there today for me.

You know whatever combination of 4 or 5 defenders you play they're going to concede a couple of goals, so why not try to actually win the game?

Iwobi high on confidence, DCL who made a big difference in Thursday, no idea why they didn't start.

Lampard will go in May imo once our relegation is confirmed.

 

[gazzaa2]

He sent this team out motivated and ready to play.
You could see in the first 20 mins - we were on fire.
I said in the match thread that the Townsend injury would be momentum changing and it proved to be the case. I think we scored early on we would have won that game.
I’m not blaming frank for this.

We needed the early goal and that was the gameplan.

I think Palace had settled though by the time Townsend went off. The first 10 minutes was where we were sharp and took the game to them.

 

[barneygumble]

Just play 3 in midfield every game FFS

Bingo.

You can’t play 5 at the back, because if we go behind we are done.

Has to be Allan, VDB and Doucouré when they’re all available.

None of them can play in a “2”.

Iwobi and Gordon at fullback ffs.

 

[dannyboy]

The players are a disgrace but it doesn't look like he's doing anything to help. Even at this stage Lampard looks done in terms of ideas. If we stay up, it'll be one of hell of an escape then a huge summer to prevent us being in the same situation next year.

 

[HeltSkelt]

For the most part, Lampard was a good player who pretty much only ever played with other good players his whole career (which adds an advantage), then did a middling job before managing a Chelsea team of good players, doing a middling job there.

Whoever thought he'd be able to do a job with a team that struggled under Champions League winning managers is clearly insane tbh.
Lampard would have made sense if the academy was bursting with the next Stones/Barkley/Rooney/Rodwell types that needed blooding, in a similar way that Arteta has done at Arsenal, but not when you're already sinking into a relegation battle. I don't buy that there isn't a manager who could do a decent job with this lot, but you need specific types of managers who are suited to this kind of squad. Unfortunately, they'd be unfashionable ones, like your Moyes/Allardyce/Bruce types - win ugly, get the points, reset a little. Can't pass your way out of the bottom 4.

this exactly

 

[BluePaul86]

Lampard win rate: 40%

Benitez win rate: 32%

Don't remember Rafael getting spanked 5-0 + 4-0 in consecutive away games.

 

[dannyboy]

He sent this team out motivated and ready to play.
You could see in the first 20 mins - we were on fire.
I said in the match thread that the Townsend injury would be momentum changing and it proved to be the case. I think we scored early on we would have won that game.
I’m not blaming frank for this.

Some excellent pressing but we really don't look like scoring. The system isn't giving our game any creativity.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

There's no excusing for how he continues to set us up away from home.

I've never felt a manager to hinder our chances at getting a result in such a way that he does in how he sets the team up away.

 

[Thomasc]

Don't remember Rafael getting spanked 5-0 + 4-0 in consecutive away games.

If you are advocating the virtues of Benitez, it’s time for bed mate.

 

[Nymzee]

Don't remember Rafael getting spanked 5-0 + 4-0 in consecutive away games.

I do remember him losing 6 games in 7. Do you?

 

[Gordon Lee's Cushion]

Instead of we cannot keep sacking managers how about we cannot keep appointing terrible ones? The only one with an argument of staying in the job is Silva and even then we were in the bottom 3. The underlying stats for Lampard are awful and if that continues we could well be down and he should be sacked

So all the managers were bad? I really do not believe that and deep down neither do a lot of our fans. Tike we stuck with someone and backed them for longer than a few weeks. Sacking managers as a knee jerk reaction is what has got us in the situation.

 

[jonnyboy316]

Don't remember Rafael getting spanked 5-0 + 4-0 in consecutive away games.

We lost away at Norwich and Brentford under him

 

[Drico]

We can talk it up as much as we like, but today was an absolute disgrace.

We can blame the players - which we rightly do - but the manager is supposed to coach them, improve them, coax performances from them...and he really isn't. Benitez went because his results made his job untenable. Lampard right now is only still in a job because we've already sacked one manager this season, it's surely too late to get anyone else in, and because the club is frankly exhausted and spinning from the managerial merry-go-round.

But on his own merits, make no mistake. This is failure.

 

[Axlswhk]

What was his choices?

VDB cup tied
Allan suspended
Delph oxygen thief

Push holgate to midfield, or play anyone who simple don’t jog around for vast majority of the game.