Coventry City head coach Frank Lampard felt his team were in the Blues’ 4-1 FA Cup victory over his side at the CBS Arena, but rued mistakes at the back and Town’s clinical finishing.

The Blues are in the hat for round five of the FA Cup for the first time since 2007.

“We were in the game, even after conceding in the first minutes of the game, we showed good character, good play to come back and get level,” Lampard said.

“We carried on playing well, but we conceded the second and then the third with a mistake, which is the most disappointing goal with how it made the game feel.

“There was some good stuff in big parts of the game, the mistakes that led to their goal is disappointing, could we be more clinical, maybe in certain moments, maybe yes, but I don’t think the scoreline generally reflects the performance.”

Jack Clarke’s two goals on 28 and 37 took the game away from his team who had pulled back to 1-1 after George Hirst had buried an early penalty and the former England international had praise for the way the Blues made the most of their opportunities.
 
“It’s an important part of it, it doesn’t make the mistakes we made any less relevant for us to analyse, but maybe this is a little bit of the difference in what we’re looking at and we respect Ipswich for that,” he added.

“They’ve gone up last year and they’ve recruited and strengthened, and they can probably handle this game when they had no midweek games either side and we have, so there’s different contexts to the game.”
 
Reflecting further on his team’s errors, he continued: “That’s football, there’s tactics, structure, there’s the team and then sometimes there are individual errors within it, and we have to work against them, and they happen.

“We analyse it after and hopefully we eradicate them as they go, but mistakes happen in football, and they have taken advantage of them today and we didn’t take advantage of our moments at the other end at times.”
 
Overall, Lampard, who was interviewed for the Town job in 2018, felt other than the goals, there wasn’t too much in the match.
 
“I thought the lads made a good effort today and we put out a team to compete in this cup and on another day, I think with our performance, we get a much closer result,” he said.

“I think we sneak possession in the game and we had as many if not more chances, they maybe had the more quality chances, but if you analyse the game without the goals, it’s pretty even.

“So, for all the issues with how the game falls for us, I thought the lads dealt with it well and now it’s important we just move on and look at QPR [at home in the Championship on Tuesday] now.”

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Umros added 19:01 - Feb 8 What an absolutely absurd comment to make!
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BarcaBlue added 19:01 - Feb 8 He has a point, if we hadn't have scored four goals they'd have won 1-0.
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KMcBlue added 19:08 - Feb 8 Hahahaha.... the gulf between Prem and champ well and truly highlighted
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bluebullet29l added 19:11 - Feb 8 Jog on frank....
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mutters added 19:18 - Feb 8 If you ignore the football played, then it was very even
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Elpelly added 19:20 - Feb 8 Yes, absolutely nothing separating the sides apart from our four goals to their one.
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Churchman added 19:25 - Feb 8 Frank, if you understood the difference between a team and a teapot you might be a better manager than you are. Cracking player, mind.
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Phil1969 added 19:26 - Feb 8 I’m bias I’m a blue. But Dawson on Sky said we strolled it from start to finish. Guess Frank has his Chelsea goggles on !
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Woodbridgian added 19:28 - Feb 8 He could have something here if you ignore goals and gave points out for play being even we’d be mid table at least ! Lol
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Bury_St_Edmundson added 19:41 - Feb 8 He wouldn't even give us a wave we asked twice, too
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EatonBlue added 20:01 - Feb 8 I said the same after we lost 0-6 to Man City.
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SmithersJones added 20:05 - Feb 8 When we lost 9-0 to Man Utd it was pretty even apart from the goals.
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blues1 added 20:09 - Feb 8 To all those slating Lampard for those comments, I've seen several fans who were there, saying much the same thing. That the scoreline didn't really reflect the game overall.
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PMK added 20:41 - Feb 8 Every game would be 0-0 if you ignore the goals.
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ArnieM added 21:00 - Feb 8 LOL Lampard, what a deluded knob he is.
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warky_1970 added 21:08 - Feb 8 Watched it on TV and Coventry were very much equal to us but as he says their defensive mistakes were the difference.
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norfsufblue added 21:18 - Feb 8 That's been pretty much our problem in The Premier League.... the team with the better quality make fewer mistakes and capitalise on most given to them.... thats how most team games let along football works!
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dyersdream added 21:32 - Feb 8 What a numpty so goals don’t win games !!
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itfchorry added 21:38 - Feb 8 Always thought that when Lampard’s Chelsea beat us 7-0 in the Cup - was just the goals Between the teams !!
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BobbyBell added 22:34 - Feb 8 Isn't goals the whole point of the game?
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Bazza8564 added 22:40 - Feb 8 With that logic we should make Champions League then....
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chepstowblue added 00:32 - Feb 9 I would tend to agree with him. It was a very flattering scoreline. The neutral reports that I've heard have all suggested that there was nothing in our general play that made us look like a club from a higher division. We were clinical with our limited chances, but those chances came with a large degree of 'helping hand'. It's a good looking result on paper, but far from a jaw dropping or convincing performance. It certainly doesn't fill me with optimism as far as an upturn in league form is concerned.

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FromIpswichToPhoenix added 03:39 - Feb 9 If we hadn't have lost, we would have won.
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poet added 08:48 - Feb 9 I tend to not take any notice of opposing managers analysis of games. Their players are either world beaters if they win, or excuses like Lampard’s if they lose. If he had been honest, then all he would be doing is pushing himself a little closer to the exit door. I mean, saying his team were totally outclassed isn’t exactly conducive of self praise is it!
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Bert added 09:55 - Feb 9 Next time, better to remove the goal posts.
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