Frank Lampard
Frank Lampard
Frank James Lampard OBEis an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for New York City FC in Major League Soccer. He is the all-time leading goalscorer for Chelsea, where he played for 13 years, and is considered by a number of journalists and football experts to be one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, in addition to being widely regarded as Chelsea's greatest ever player by some Chelsea players, such as previous record goal-scorer Bobby Tambling and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth20 June 1978
CityRomford, England
Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.
I was desperate to get that record but I want to get more goals now. I want to reach 20 goals for the first time.
Liverpool's strength in the Champions League last season was not conceding goals away from home. Maybe in the league they'll come out a bit more. Winning is more of a necessity for them.
I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.
Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.
The ultimate goal is to have the right formation by the time the tournament comes around and we will hopefully get it right, no matter how we line up.
It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.
Those records are great but we're not thinking about the home record going. We're just thinking about how we're going to put it right. It's up to us.
We want to do it as soon as we can. It will be a very tough game and we are not thinking we have won it yet.
You get to the stage where every little bit of criticism that comes to you, you use to make you stronger, ... We get it from a lot of angles now and we hope to answer it by success.
I wouldn't say what was said got under our skin. There were things said before the last Champions League game and we felt we had been talked about it a bad way. But we put it right in the league game up there which is the main place to do your talking.
We were concerned because no one wants to go 1-0 down at home, but it was always going to happen. We were always going to concede at some stage and it was about our reaction, which was spot on.
The pitch will be full of players who are capable of changing the course of the game.
The pitch was as bad as it has ever been and we were getting frustrated.