Frank Lampard has revealed the only “problem” he had with N’Golo Kante during his time as Chelsea boss.
Lampard was fired for Chelsea in January, when Thomas Tuchel was hired to lead the Blues to Champions League glory.
Edge He played a key role in Lampard’s time at Stamford Bridge, as he has for all the coaches he has played under.
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The Frenchman played a vital role in securing European glory for Chelsea, winning the Man of the Match award in both the semi-final against Real Madrid and the final against Manchester City.
Rio Ferdinand claims that Kante is the MVP of Euro 2020 and Lampard called him “invaluable”, before pointing out a “problem” he had with the midfielder in training.
“When I came to Chelsea I didn’t play that regularly for some seasons because everyone trusts him a lot. He had an injury that led to my first season, we miss him so much. Lampard said.
“You miss N’Golo a lot in the big games because he is a great player. Nobody will want to play against him because of the qualities he has.
“In those big games, finals, soccer tournaments, players like N’Golo are just unaffordable.
“The main reason he’s so good is that he’s the best destroyer in the world. When I say destroyer, I mean to get the ball back. Recovering the ball with anticipation, with the speed to travel short and short distances, its main quality for me is destruction, leaving spaces to recover balls.
“An old-fashioned midfielder who would say he would sit in the back four, Makelele did very well with Chelsea years ago.
But he has so much more to his game. When you see the distances he travels to get in front of people, that acceleration and speed, that’s something special for him, it’s very unique.
He added: “You can multitask. He makes the people around him better, he helps everyone.
“It is exactly as one would expect from the outside, nothing is an act, he is very humble, very quiet, he does not want many conversations.
«The problem I found with him was that I was trying to keep him in training because every day you train and you release him in an opposite session, he does it, and you have to try to get him back because he can, just put that exit in everything he does .
“It’s incredible, it’s exactly what you see from the outside.”
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