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Injury news ahead of Brighton: Three new signings unavailable

10 Sep 2020


In his first press conference of the season, Frank Lampard has reported
there will be absentees for the trip to Brighton on Monday.


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The boss was speaking at Cobham on the eve of the new campaign, with his
first task telling the media watching virtually which players he would not
be able to call upon at the Amex. Added to this list is Mateo Kovacic, who
is suspended following his red card in the FA Cup final.


'Hakim Ziyech took an injury to his knee against Brighton in the friendly
game so he won't be fit,' began Lampard. 'We hope it's a matter of weeks,
hopefully a couple of weeks, but we will have to see on that one.


'Ben Chilwell is working towards fitness. He won't be fit for Brighton. He
has developed and improved this week and going in the right direction,
which is good news for us.


'Thiago Silva is now in London but not training with us until the weekend,
so I doubt very much he will be in contention for the Brighton game.


'Other than that, Billy Gilmour is a longer-term injury, he will be out
for a couple of months more, but other than that we are in decent shape.'


Having picked up injuries in the FA Cup final, Lampard is pleased to have
Christian Pulisic and club captain Cesar Azpilicueta available to him,
perhaps sooner than he expected.


'I am very happy to welcome them both back. Yesterday was their first day
fully training with the team, so they're in contention for Monday.


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Pulisic takes flight yesterday


'I have to be careful and I have a squad to pick from, but the way they're
training and their attitude to come back, it looks like they're over those
injuries. I just have to make sure I manage them both back in in their own
ways.'


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Lampard considers raised expectations at Chelsea and discusses Tomori's
future

10 Sep 2020


In his first two transfer windows in charge of Chelsea, Frank Lampard did
not bring anyone in. That has all changed this summer, and the boss has
assessed how our new signings will impact expectations at the Bridge, with
some pundits stating we should now be title challengers.


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Lampard is content to leave it to outsiders to cast their judgement on
what the Blues should be aspiring to achieve this season. He is
concentrating his focus on improving the individual and the collective,
with the main target gelling his freshened-up squad as quickly as possible.


'The pressure on me to do better than last season should be standard,
regardless of anything,' noted Lampard today at his first pre-match press
conference of the season. 'That comes with the territory of this job.


'I understand there will be a lot of talk about the players we've brought
in, and we were very joined up on the business we wanted to do to improve
the team. We've done it hopefully in a good way. We should be excited, but
we should also have a slight word of caution that we need to work with the
new players to get them settled into the team and get the team working as
well as possible.


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Timo Werner on fire during Chelsea finishing drill


'Other people can talk about us challenging or not. In the last two
seasons we have a finished a lot of points behind Liverpool and Manchester
City, so we have to first look at closing the gap and build confidence by
getting the team working well together. I'm not jumping ahead and making
any predictions on us.


'I know what it takes to win Premier Leagues,' added Lampard. 'When you
look at the teams who have dominated in recent years, they are a story
that has run over a few years in terms of recruitment, coaching and
improvement on the training pitch that translates to the pitch. It's not a
simple story that bringing in players must win the league, it doesn't work
that way.


'I hope we will improve, I know expectations will be there and I won't
hide away from those, but we won't jump ahead of ourselves.'


Lampard went on to explain why he is ready to raise the levels at Chelsea,
just as he did in his playing career as big names were brought in.


'Expectations to deliver are always there at a size of this club, and I
thrive off that pressure. I didn't come in to this job to fight for fourth
place, although that was an achievement last season. I didn't come here to
bring Academy players into the team and say I made this many debuts. No, I
came here to try and win.


'Any club at our level has to tick the major boxes, and recruitment is a
huge part of that. We have been able to bring in players, that changes the
landscape, and we are ready to go. We want to move in an upwards
direction, and the work starts now. It's been a broken pre-season for
everyone, and with new players you have to work very hard, very quickly,
and we will do that.'


When it comes to the make-up of his squad for the 2020/21 campaign, there
remains a chance of further changes. Lampard confirmed Michy Batshuayi is
in talks with Crystal Palace but it remains 'an ongoing situation'.
However, he said there have been no discussions about Fikayo Tomori
leaving on loan.


'Fikayo trained with us today and is in contention for the Brighton game,'
said Lampard. 'There is nothing specific I want him to improve on. All I
want him to do is work hard, show me the work ethic he showed me at Derby
and for major parts of last season, and he knows I'm fair in how I try to
pick the team.


'With four centre-backs last year, two will be unhappy pretty much every
week. It's up to them to try and make that starting place their own, those
are the rules at a club like Chelsea.


'Everybody should be positive going into the season, training and playing
as well as they can, and worry about the unity of the squad and the
results we get as a team.'


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