Chelsea FC: Lampard talks about fixtures and games behind closed doors

Frank Lampard. An English professional football manager and former player. He is the current Head Coach of English top flight club Chelsea FC. Photo: MI News/NurPhoto via Getty

In the past couple of days, significant steps have been taken towards the resumption of Chelsea’s season, three months after the last game we played.

On Friday, the fixture dates for the first
three Premier League games following the resumption were announced.

Frank Lampard spoke to the official Chelsea website: ‘We’re all excited. We were waiting to see when the games would be. I had presumed they would be in the same order, but the Manchester City game [which had been postponed due to the FA Cup quarter-finals] was of interest, where that was going to go.

‘It’s an extra game in week one, but more than anything we’re just excited to have confirmation of the dates.'

Lampard on Chelsea's first fixtures:

Aston Villa away due to be our first game back, followed four days later by our hosting of Manchester City at home.

'Villa are fighting for their lives, City have huge quality, we know that. It’s a difficult start and we’ll need to be ready.’

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Lampard on behind-closed-door-games:

It goes without saying that the remainder of the 2019/20 season is going to be very different from the normal for the boss and his players, with it confirmed there will be no fans inside the stadiums.

'We’ll have to try to make sure we prepare as well as we can in terms of being ready for the change in atmosphere. It will be different for everyone.

‘It may change the pace of the game, it might change the slight tone of it. We’ve seen that slightly in Germany and we need to be ready to adapt to that.'
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