Chelsea suffered their sixth loss of the 2020-21 EPL season, this time going down 2-0 to Leicester City away from home and as per the latest rumours, Roman Abramovich is planning to sack Frank Lampard.
After the loss to the Foxes, Chelsea are now four points away from the fourth spot on the league table(having played one game more than the other clubs) but Lampard might not get the chance to redeem himself as the Blues hierarchy is actively looking to bring in a long-term replacement.
A few names have been doing the rounds ever since this sacking news broke and it seems like Frank Lampard has already made peace with the decision of him being made the scapegoat in the coming weeks.
“I can’t control it,” he said, as per Four Four Two. “I have been asked it over the last few weeks. I understand it and it is the expectation of the club whether it is right or wrong.
“I took the job knowing that there will be difficult times because it is not a club ready to compete. We have had a ban, we have young players, we have new players that we can see are striving for form and to be settled into this team. At the minute we have to fight.
“There are players who are not playing as well as they should do. I was a player and they are the only ones who can deal with that.
“The general theme of our performance was slow, sluggish with a lack of desire to run and that can come with a lack of confidence. We got beaten by the better team.
“If you look at the composition of the squad, you can see there are young players or ones who were in a different league or on loan or in the Championship within one or two seasons.
“You are asking a lot for them to become John Terry overnight. It doesn’t happen that way.”
Frank Lampard is sure to get a few more games to get his act together but the management will have to make a final call on his future before Chelsea get back into the Champions League next month.
The Blues take on Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Round of 16 late next month and there’s no way the owner would want to their side to go into such a crucial game with such a wobbly and disoriented first-team squad.
