Chelsea are getting set to face Norwich City in the lunchtime kick off today, and Frank Lampard has been discussing concerns over his side being more clinical in front of goal.
The Blues lost 4-0 to Manchester United on the opening day, and only scored one goal against Leicester City in a 1-1 draw last week.
Lamprd’s team should have been 3-0 up in the first half of both matches, but they failed to take fairly clear chances.
Of course, Eden Hazard was heavily relied on to get goals and assists at Chelsea before he joined Real Madrid this summer, but Lampard has challenged his players to be the new source of goals.
Being a great goal-scorer in his playing days, and also playing alongside a number of other great goal-scorers, Lampard knows the importance of having those types all over the pitch.
He’s been discussing that very subject to the Chelsea FC website, ahead of today’s big match.
He said:
“The challenge is clear for the strikers and the attacking players: ‘Can you be the players to score those goals?’ because the top teams in the league tend to have players who are scoring regularly, that do win games that are tight, that do make you clear in games and good periods when you’re playing well and you need to score enough goals to put the game to bed.
“That’s the challenge for us. It’s something that we aren’t doing and we need to do.
“We obviously have to score from different areas of the pitch. I think that’s pretty clear. We need to score more goals at this moment for sure.’
“With Eden, we all know the reliance in terms of his output was huge.
“There’s enough quality in this team to win games for sure without Eden. He’s not here now so that’s the end of that story.”
