Lampard: Too many mistakes
FRANK LAMPARD has ordered his Chelsea stars to cut out the mistakes as they go head-to-head with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s sharpshooters for a place in the FA Cup Final.
Manchester United boss Solskjaer has three of the most potent forwards in the top flight in Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood.
And Lampard knows his men, who have the worst goals-against record in the Premier League’s top 11 teams, need to be fully switched on if they are to book a return to Wembley on August 1.
Lampard said: “We always work on it, there’s never a neglect of defensive work.
“It has to be constant and repeated regularly. A big problem of ours this season is that we’ve been committing individual errors in games.
“Certain games are different to that – like Sheffield United – where we just didn’t play well as a team.
“But we’ve had individual errors in key moments that have changed the face of the result slightly and it has been too regular.
“We will have to be very much on top of our game when it comes to Manchester United.
“They can hurt any defence or any team.
“It was good to get a clean sheet against Norwich – but this will be a very different animal and we shall have to defend very well.”
The five days between Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Norwich and today’s game is the longest the Blues have gone between matches since the restart.
Lampard added: “I’m always one that says players should get on with it, they’re professionals.
“But every three days to play games at the level we’re talking is not easy and we’ve seen some tiredness.”
“We have to dig in to get a push for the last few games.”