Frank Lampard has made it clear that his Chelsea side will move away from the much-criticised Sarri-ball of last season but will not play attacking football every single week.
The Blues legend returned to the club this summer in place of Maurizio Sarri – whose style of play was heavily criticised despite a top-four finish and Europa League glory.
But Lampard has little intention of playing out-and-out attacking football and is more likely to borrow from the pragmatism of another former Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho, and adapt his gameplan according to the opposition.
‘The philosophy question is a difficult one. You get asked it a lot. It gets linked straight to attacking football, and that is not what I am trying to do,’ he explained. Read more
