Frank Lampard rather liked the behavior of his team despite the defeat on the field of real Madrid on Wednesday in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. He believes in the chances of his team.
Frank Lampard is not living a dream comeback on the Chelsea bench with two defeats in as many games. Beaten in Wolverhampton (1-0) last weekend in the Premier League, the Blues also lost to Real Madrid (2-0) on Wednesday in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League. But the manager, who will take over until the end of the season, has good hopes of still believing in qualification.
“We were in the game, but we might have played much better”
“Real has great qualities, we knew it, it was a big challenge, he recalled. But the door is always open. We will have to try everything next week. There, we are on a mixed emotion, we were in the game, but we might have played a lot better. We might have taken our chances better, created more things.”
The former English midfielder particularly praised the behavior of his players during the last half hour spent in numerical inferiority following the exclusion of Ben Chilwell. “At ten once morest eleven for half an hour, a lot might have happened, and I’m quite proud of how the players managed this period, I liked their state of mind, continues Lampard. Obviously, if we don’t believe it, if we don’t believe we have a passing percentage, it’s useless. The fans will be there to help us, we know what Real are worth in decisive matches, but it will be in a different stadium, where you want to show different things, to reverse the trend.”
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Chelsea will host Real next Tuesday at Stamford Bridge (9 p.m., on RMC Sport 1). In the meantime, Lampard will try to win his first success since his return on Saturday with the reception of Brighton (4 p.m.) in the Premier League.
