Lampard: Analyse the Game Without the Goals and It's Pretty Even
Saturday, 8th Feb 2025 18:56

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.”

TWTD

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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 10:00 - Feb 9 I've never been impressed with Lampard as a manager. I get what he's trying to say here: Coventry probably did more or less match us in general outfield play (so I see your point, chepstowblue). But goals win games and we scored four to their one! And remember this was largely our reserve squad in action.
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bobble added 10:25 - Feb 9 Dark chocolate is far superior to milk...
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TimmyH added 13:45 - Feb 9 We could use your argument Frank about the game being even quite a lot this season in a number of marginal games in the Premiership - Brighton, Bournemouth, Palace examples.
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Jugsy added 12:12 - Feb 10

'But they had more goals.... but they've spent money on players... but we've played loads of games....' jeez you'd think his job is on the online with the number of excuses he vomited up.

Game played out virtually as expected bearing in mind that we needed minutes in legs, they are a team with a bit of upward momentum, the FA cup is a bit of a distraction for both teams. We always looked more dangerous than them and we know having more of the ball means not a lot over 90 minutes of football - Frank is just sour grapes.

Dissboyitfc added 15:34 - Feb 10 Being the best team or having the lions share of possession or matching teams counts for nothing, have felt on many occasions that exact feeling on leaving Portman road, yet we are in a fight to stay up score more and you win, simples!!!
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