Frank Lampard still is what he very much was in January 2021: a mediocre Chelsea manager. The mood of the fans and players was lifted for all of a few days by a legend with diminishing returns of distraction from malpractice.
The mood of the fanbase was raised, the spirit of the squad was lifted, the identity of the club was restored – for all of three days or so. It took less than half a week for the folly of Chelsea’s decision-making to be exposed as another manager was sucked into the vortex of their negligence.
Perhaps therein lies the true justification for Lampard’s reascencion to a throne from which he had to forcibly removed more than two years ago.Time ought to spare the Blues from a relegation battle; their form certainly won’t. They have have won three of their last 23 games, have not scored in 284 minutes and are mid-table by a humorous amount of metrics.
Even those shoots of positivity could be unpicked with ease. Gallagher never once made the right call in the final third. Fernandez was tidy but caught in possession a few times. Felix slowed almost to a stop before his substitution around the hour mark.
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