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
I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.
I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
I come from a football family which has really helped.
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.
I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
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.
We played very well at the weekend and when we do it is hard for teams to beat us because we have a lot of quality in the side,
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 won't be thinking about the last game, so it won't affect them. They'll reflect on the good results.
We got the result and we're nearly there. I think we probably need to win two games and we are going to try to do that.