Chelsea edge Lille to advance to Champions League knockout stages
Chelsea moved through to the Champions League knockout stage with a 2-1 win over a largely compliant Lille side at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.
Chelsea moved through to the Champions League knockout stage with a 2-1 win over a largely compliant Lille side at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.
Frank Lampard has challenged his Chelsea players to show tougher ‘personality’ to fight for their Stamford Bridge futures.
The Champions League group stage concludes this week with a host of issues still to be resolved.
The transfer ban allowed Frank Lampard the room to be bolder than he otherwise might have been, but defeats by West Ham and Everton have had some grumbles rising.
Jadon Sancho has been heavily linked with a return to the Premier League ever since he began to break into the Borussia Dortmund team, but it’s unlikely we’ll see him back this season at least.
Frank Lampard has confirmed he’ll be looking to dip into the transfer market in January, and former Chelsea defender Nathan Ake could be the first name on the shopping list.
Duncan Ferguson made an instant impact as Everton’s caretaker manager following the sacking of Marco Silva, guiding them to a 3-1 win over Chelsea and lifting them out of the bottom three.
Frank Lampard insists flourishing young talents Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount are ‘here to stay’ despite Chelsea eyeing new January recruits.
Chelsea have been freed to spend again in the January, with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeing their two-window ban cut in half.
Frank Lampard has hailed match-winning striker Tammy Abraham for shouldering an increasingly influential role at Chelsea.