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lampard--i-enjoy-pressure--i-put-it-on-myself

Lampard: I enjoy pressure, I put it on myself

02 Jan 2021


Pressure. It is a word almost synonymous with Premier League manager and
one that Frank Lampard has been considering at the start of the new
calendar year.


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After a strong autumn in terms of results, December did not yield the
number of Premier League points hoped for but the Chelsea boss counters
the suggestion this is the first real sticky patch in charge of the team
he is having to negotiate, and the idea that pressure is not all round
even when results are good.


'It's not the first test like this,' Lampard points out. 'Last year there
were many tests through the season from start to finish. There was when I
first started, there was around Christmas last year when we went from
seven wins back-to-back to a difficult time, and that's the nature of the
job when you're coming into a team that's young and changing.


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Lampard had the chance to celebrate the Leeds win with fans in the stadium


'You're not going to go from zero to 100 so you have to be ready for those
times. I think one of my strengths hopefully is never being too excited
when we're going well, I was trying to dampen flames after Leeds for
instance when everyone was talking us up, and then my job is to not be too
down when we have results go against us.


'The first person that puts pressure on me is me,' Lampard emphasises. 'I
do that all the time for good or for bad so that doesn't change much, but
I'm not stupid, I know we need to get results.'


He goes on to explain that in times when it is not going so well on the
pitch, there is a need to tweak the things he does. He can't afford to
think he has it cracked or a poor result is nothing to do with his work,
but at the same time he has to stick to his guiding principles, conscious
that those can be lauded when the team does well but the same things can
then be criticised when one goal, however fortuitous, swings a result the
wrong way.


'It's different from being a player to my job now because the pressure
when you're playing is very individual when it comes to aspects in your
game - maybe the opponent you're up against in a game,' Lampard explains.


'The pressure when you're a manager is very general through the week
preparing the team, thinking about selection, understanding expectations,
so it's a different level of pressure and that's something I had to handle
the minute I stepped into management.


'I enjoy pressure and if I didn't then I wouldn't have got back into this
or I would walk away at the first chance and that's never going to be
something that I would do. I just take it on, I don't mind it. That
doesn't mean you're as happy as always, I'm not as happy right now as I
was off the back of Leeds and a 17-game unbeaten run and that's absolutely
normal.


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Training at Cobham this week


'It does make me focus absolutely on the job. You learn a lot more in
defeat or tough moments. You certainly have to review more and look at
yourself more, and look at every tiny percentage around you more. I like
doing that because I think that makes you better as a coach and better as
a person. Maybe my wife will tell you better how I react to pressure at
home.'


Lampard highlights the fact that Chelsea are far from alone in not being
able to maintain steady form throughout this unusual campaign, including
the sides at the very top of the table.


'If you look at this season, everybody has had their difficult periods,
inconsistency has been rife. I think there are multiple reasons for that.
Of course we're searching for that consistency that took us 17 games
unbeaten. We did that for a reason because we were doing the basics well,
energy in the team was good, and those have slightly dropped off.


'Sometimes that's natural, it's par for the course when you're fighting
to get to where you want to be. Teams that we're praising for winning
trophies have gone through these periods and more.


'So it's head-down time, head down and work and not consider the table too
much. We know we're there or thereabouts but the only thing that will
change it in a positive manner is us just going game to game.'

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