{"id":30875,"date":"2021-01-25T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30875"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:35:21","slug":"sack-chelsea-players-complained-about-frank-lampard-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30875","title":{"rendered":"Sack: Chelsea players &#8216;complained about Frank Lampard tactics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<strong>Daniel Lewis<\/strong>, Sports Mole Senior Reporter<br \/><br \/>A number of&nbsp;Chelsea&nbsp;players reportedly complained about a lack of clear tactical instructions from&nbsp;Frank Lampard&nbsp;prior to his Chelsea sacking.<br \/><br \/>Lampard&#8217;s 18-month tenure at Stamford Bridge&nbsp;officially came to an end&nbsp;on Monday after a run of two wins in eight Premier League games.<br \/><br \/>The iconic former midfielder guided Chelsea to a fourth-place finish in the Premier League last season and to the final of the FA Cup.<br \/><br \/>However, the West London outfit have endured a largely underwhelming 2020-21 on the back of a \u00a3220m summer outlay on new players, the majority of whom have failed to deliver.<br \/><br \/>According to&nbsp;The Athletic, certain senior stars in the Chelsea dressing room were unhappy with Lampard&#8217;s methods, with&nbsp;Kepa Arrizabalaga&nbsp;among those named.<br \/><br \/>It is claimed that the Englishman regularly informed players to &#8220;go out and express themselves&#8221;, rather than providing any more detailed instructions.<br \/><br \/>Chelsea&nbsp;are expected to appoint&nbsp;Thomas Tuchel, out of work since being sacked by Paris Saint-Germain a month ago, in the coming days.<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>sportsmole.co.uk<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Daniel Lewis, Sports Mole Senior Reporter A number of&nbsp;Chelsea&nbsp;players reportedly complained about a lack of clear tactical instructions from&nbsp;Frank Lampard&nbsp;prior to his Chelsea sacking. Lampard&#8217;s 18-month tenure at Stamford Bridge&nbsp;officially came to an end&nbsp;on Monday after a run of two wins in eight Premier League games. The iconic former midfielder guided Chelsea to a fourth-place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[2820,2821,2822],"class_list":["post-30875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-lampard","tag-players","tag-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}