Chelsea visit this Wednesday the Santiago Bernabeu in full crisis to play the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League. After the dismissal of Graham Pottersecond coach of the course, Lampard He sat on the blue bench until the end of the season. But the sensations have not improved. The London team cannot find his identity and has shown that he has great deficiencies in defense and attack.
the season of Chelsea she’s being creepy. After the dismissals of Tuchel and Potter, the team continues to drift and does not seem to have improved at all since the start of the season, quite the opposite. The London team made a large outlay in the winter market and the feelings of the team have even worsened. The blues are closer to relegation (12 points) than to the positions Champions League in the Premier League (17 points).
He Chelsea He arrives at the Bernabéu after four games without knowing a victory with two defeats and two draws. In addition, the blues accumulate three consecutive games without scoring a goal. Lampardin his second spell as a blue coach, sat on the bench and revolutionized the scheme against the Wolves. He removed the 5-3-2 to implement his 4-3-3. But he did not go well and the Londoners lost again.
The first doubt of the second was Lampard is in the goal. In the first stage of the English coach, Kepa started as a starter, but Lampard brought to Mendy and he settled in the goal. In this second stage, with the Spanish goalkeeper in great shape, Lamps has bet on Kepa as owner. But the shadow of Mendy is there.
Doubts in defense and in the scheme
The second doubt in the return of Lampard It’s in the tactic. in front of Wolves, the British technician changed the scheme. He modified the 5-3-2 that the team was playing with to apply his 4-3-3. But it didn’t work either and the feelings left by the London team just before visiting the Bernabeu they were very bad.
In the first match of the second ‘Lampard era’ at the Chelseathe English coach put cucurella as a left back ahead of Chilwell already James in the right. Koulibalywhich was very slow, and Breathingwho was clumsy with the ball, were the central couple.
A defense that is one of the great weaknesses of this Chelseaand where it is not clear who the holders are. Loftus He has come to play lane, cucurella He has done it as a third central defender and as a winger, Chilwell has interspersed entitlements, and Badiashile y Chalobah They have also had their chances at center back.
Lampard’s idea doesn’t work
For the ideas you want to convey Lampard to his team, it seems that the Chelsea will come out in the Bernabeu with a defense of four, thus breaking with the defense of five that had Potter and Tuchel previously. An idea that is not generating defensive confidence in the Chelsea. Before the Wolvesthe team showed great weakness at the back, with very severe problems getting the ball played and with a terrible defensive balance.
He Chelsea He has been playing all season with three center backs and two wingers, and although things were not working out, the team seems used to that scheme. Last Saturday it was possible to verify that the players did not know how to adapt to the defense of four. Even, Cucurella and Fofana ended up being singled out after being replaced by Lampard and they could be substitutes in the Bernabeu.
Shortcomings in attack: three games without a goal
The other great weakness of Chelsea He’s on the offensive front. The blues have gone three consecutive games without scoring a goal and the doubts are growing. The problem for Lampard, who also had Potteris that there are no indisputable players above and that has begun to generate doubts in the players themselves, especially in the important ones.
In front of Aston Villacon Potter on the bench, the forward of the Chelsea was made up of Havertz, Joao y Mudryk. In front of Liverpoolcon Bruno Saltor as interim, they only played Havertz and Joao. And against the Wolves, Lampard bet on Joao, Havertz y Sterling.
Joao Felix and Havertz seem indisputable in the Chelseabut both were marked by Lampard during the loss to the Wolves. With the score 1-0, the English coach withdrew them both from the field to remove Pulisic y Aubameyang. Both the Portuguese and the German are not at their best and continually make war on their own, with a very anarchic game that does not help the team at all.
The center of the field, the safest
The only thing that seems untouchable and safe in this Chelsea It is your midfield. Enzo Fernandez and Kovacic they seem indisputable. Together with them against Wolves juice Gallagherbut why Kante I was not even in the call. Lampard he wanted to save that ‘ace’ for him Bernabeuand the French midfielder, already recovered from his injury, could make the team improve from the middle.
The doubts in the Chelsea they begin in defense and end in attack, and that is where the Real Madrid can hurt him this Wednesday. With a strong team at the back and a devilish attack like on big occasions, the whites can do a lot of damage to a Chelsea who does not find a clear idea of the game, especially when he is losing. Lampard He is trying to implement his new ideas, but for the moment the team seems to be having a hard time assimilating the new concepts, and the Madrid team should take advantage of that. Attacking in every doubt must be the premise of Ancelotti.
