The England international who is arguably Chelsea’s best player will be out of action for eight weeks and this starts with the game against us at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
It is still unlikely that we will come away from West London with a positive result but the absence of Lampard might just give the boys a bit of inspiration. The 31-year-old is rarely injured but when he is, Chelsea lack a certain something going forward. I would assume that Deco would play in Lampard’s position but to be quite frank (excuse the pun) he hasn’t shown the class of Lampard during his time in London.
The Romford born midfielder holds some frightening records. He has scored 136 goals, the most in club history for a midfielder, plus he is the highest goal-scoring midfielder in Premiership history with 111 goals. No matter how good Chelsea are, a player with those sorts of statistics is going to be missed. Chelsea owe a huge debt to Lampard for where they are now. Lampard also has 71 assists to his name making him second in the all time Premiership assists table. These are magnificent stats and I’m glad we don’t have to contend with these on Saturday.
John Terry and Lampard form the spine of Chelsea Football club and when either of them is injured, Chelsea suffers. Didier Drogba and Lampard share a strong bond and this is shown on the pitch. The Ivorian and Englishman have a great understanding and Drogba relies on Lampard for the quality service he is needs. Lampard also relies on Drogba. The Essex lad scores a lot of goals from Drogba’s rebounds and passes.
I think Drogba and Nicolas Anelka might struggle a little without Lampard tucked in behind them.
I still think we will head back up the M1 with nothing to show from our trip to London but I think it we will only lose by the odd goal. Lampard has the quality to finish teams off four, five nil as we saw against Bolton a couple of weeks back but without him there isn’t the same quality to fear. I believe Chelsea will still have enough quality to get a couple of goals but nothing more than that.
It’s going to be tough down at Stamford Bridge but the absence of Lampard might just give us an outside chance of a point or maybe even three.
We really would be in dreamland if that was to happen come 5pm on Saturday evening.
Up the Wolves!
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