Lampard questions Chelsea players' desire after Leicester defeat

Victory took the Foxes prime of the Premier League, 9 factors away from Chelsea, who slip to eighth.

A fifth defeat in eight league video games piles extra strain on Lampard’s place as a £220 million ($300 million) spending spree within the switch market has didn’t reap immediate reward.

“We had been overwhelmed by the higher staff,” stated Lampard.

“I believed they had been sharper than us, ran greater than us, confirmed moments of high quality. They seemed like a staff in kind and we seemed like a staff out of shape.”

First-half targets from Wilfried Ndidi and James Maddison put Leicester in a commanding place and Brendan Rodgers’s males may have inflicted a extra embarrassing scoreline on Lampard had they taken their possibilities after the break.

The previous England midfielder left two of his costly recruits Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech on the bench, whereas membership file signing Kai Havertz was substituted after one other ineffectual efficiency.

“We had been asleep in moments. I felt like there have been numerous moments within the first half the place our sharpness wasn’t there,” added Lampard.

“The fundamentals and naked minimums are to run, dash and canopy floor, and too a lot of our gamers did not do it.”

After Chelsea’s earlier Premier League defeat at dwelling to Manchester Metropolis, studies emerged that the membership had been already taking a look at potential successors to Lampard.

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