Pressure on Lampard, Manchester City inflicts Chelsea’s 4th loss in six EPL video games

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Chelsea supervisor Frank Lampard shakes hand with Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on the ultimate whistle Chelsea vs Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday night time.
Even going through a Manchester City aspect depleted by the coronavirus, Frank Lampard could not stop Chelsea slumping to a fourth loss in its previous six video games.
And Lampard is conscious the 3-1 defeat will solely improve the strain on him.
Chelsea slipped to eighth place after lkay Gündoğan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne scored in a 16-minute first-half spell at a cold Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
The London membership is seven factors behind chief Liverpool and three factors again of City, which has performed two fewer video games and now sits in fifth place.
Even Leicester is mounting a title problem in third place after beating Newcastle 2-1 in Sunday’s different recreation.
How fickle soccer will be. Only a month in the past, Chelsea’s all-time main scorer was basking in a 17-match unbeaten that raised speak of a brand new contract midway via his second season as supervisor.
“Whether it puts pressure on me or not, it doesn’t matter,” Lampard mentioned. “A month in the past everybody was asking me whether or not I used to be going to signal a brand new contract, and now they are going to be saying various things.
“But over a busy period we’ve lost four games of football, so the pressure remains constant and you know it’s there.”

Especially when working for Russian billionaire proprietor Roman Abramovich, who has gone via a dozen managers since remodeling the membership along with his 2003 takeover.
After being unable to spend something in his first season in cost as a consequence of a switch embargo, Lampard benefited from round $250 million in squad reinforcements in the summertime switch window. Despite Timo Werner already having fun with Champions League expertise at Leipzig, the $60 million striker is among the many gamers Lampard claims nonetheless wants time to settle.
“Any construct or rebuild takes ache; ache behind the scenes and ache on the pitch sometimes,” Lampard mentioned. “This is a tough interval and I perceive the the explanation why. Today the primary half confirmed me the the explanation why and now we have to maintain combating and I’m the primary one who has to maintain combating.
“I’ll all the time really feel warmth: I felt warmth once we had been on our good run, as a result of I do know that not far away generally is a destructive.”
Gündoğan netted the opener on the flip within the 18th minute after being arrange by Foden, who was on the right track with a flick end for the second inside three minutes. De Bruyne began the transfer inside his personal half that ended with him scoring, assembly the rebound after Raheem Sterling had hit the purpose body. Chelsea’s comfort got here with nearly the final kick of the sport from Callum Hudson-Odoi.
FOXES FLYING
A fifth successive Premier League victory has propelled Leicester to inside some extent of chief Liverpool. James Maddison and Youri Tielemans clinched the win for the Foxes at St. James’ Park earlier than Andy Carroll scored late for Newcastle.
“My ambition is to get into Europe again and for us to progress,” Leicester supervisor Brendan Rodgers mentioned. “It’s all the time going to be a course of for us. We don’t have the funds to go and get that 70 million pound, 80 million pound, 90 million pound participant.
“So for us, we have to develop that player, bring in a young player or a senior player like a Jonny Evans, who is a top player, and manage his career through so he can help our younger players.”