Chelsea boss Lampard without five key players for Premier League clash at Burnley

Frank Lampard admits he got scared when he was in a good run as
a player. Fearful that things were going too well – and he is the
same as a manager.
So as his young, vibrant Chelsea team go in search of their seventh
win on the bounce at Burnley on Saturday (5.30pm), Lampard admits
he likes to keep his men on their toes – with the odd rollicking.
And Lampard revealed he was on the end of a few monsterings in
his own time as a player, mainly from his uncle Harry Redknapp
when he was at West Ham.
But if any rollickings are to be handed out at Chelsea, Lampard says
they come from him. Sometimes he has to play the ‘bad’ cop to his
players.
The Chelsea manager, whose team registered their best moment yet
under his command as they famously beat Ajax 1-0 in the Champions
League in Amsterdam on Tuesday, warned: “It is a good feeling at
the moment. I want to keep that – but temper it with a bit of
edginess.
“It comes from me, because I was that way as a player. Having
a good run of form, slightly relaxing, and the form turned.
"I was fearful of good patches, any form of relaxation - so I push
that. I am the one who drives that home.
“I’ve had a couple of words occasionally with them, but I’m not a
manager that is full of rollickings. I like to have a message that is
clear that I drive home.
Frank Lampard keen to prevent complacency as he opens up on
Chelsea dressing room approach (Image: GETTY)
“If I ever felt there was a lack of effort then that would be the
moment that I would go towards that. That is not a rollicking - that is
my job to keep enforcing it until we get it right.
“It doesn’t work like me being the good cop and Jody Morris the bad.
We can both have our moments. If you try to be the good cop
consistently I’m not sure that’s the right tone.
“Sometimes a strong message comes out, even if it is not nice. It
must come from the manager - so I have to be bad cop sometimes.”
But, the Chelsea manager insisted: “You only do that if you want to
get the right result. Regular rollickings just become white noise. Not
positive.
Frank Lampard keen to prevent complacency as he opens up on
Chelsea dressing room approach (Image: GETTY)
“Probably only Harry in my early days at West Ham really gave it
out. He would have been the one who was the most vocal, throwing
a sandwich.
"I remember a couple of those. But the game has moved on. It’s
uncomfortable to work in that environment. To do it consistently –
who wants that every day?”
Lampard will again be without the injured N’Golo Kante, still
recovering from a groin strain, and Ross Barkley, who has an ankle
problem.

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