Chelsea looks like an attacking threat in this upcoming season. Lampard loves to play attacking football and with so many attacking players in hand, he will purely focus on attack.
“That’s going to be the difficulty for Lampard, striking the balance.
But Craig Burley is of the opinion that this may come at a cost. He is concerned on how the Blues are solely focussing on their attack. He claims that “Thiago Silva is going to need an oxygen mask” in this team loaded with attacking talents.
“Thiago Silva is going to need an oxygen mask because there is only N’Golo Kante in there who has got any defensive qualities,” Burley told ESPN FC when drawing up a potential Blues XI.
The huge summer spending spree has done little to address the problems plaguing in defense.
“Mason Mount, who really flourished in his first season in the Premier League, is an attacking player, Kai Havertz played a lot of the season at Leverkusen as a striker. Then you add the front three [Werner, Ziyech and Christian Pulisic] in and it’s ‘over to you N’Golo Kante’ because nobody else is going to be defending!” he says.
“Striking a balance with Kovacic or somebody else in there is going to be key for Chelsea.”
“Chelsea had one of their worst seasons defensively last year, they lost a heck of a lot of goals, so Lampard knows that he needs to make sure he solidifies his backline, which was a big problem for them.”
