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Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says that he will be without three regular starters for the FA cup third round clash against Morecambe as he added that five academy players have joined the training.
“I am not going to talk about the starting line-up for Morecambe but Reece James is out of the game although he will be training with us tomorrow, but the game comes too early” Lampard said.
“The same as Andreas Christensen and N’Golo Kante, who is out also with a minor hamstring injury so he misses this game and he is suspended for Fulham next Friday anyway. So, we will get him right.”
Frank Lampard further stated why youngsters training with the senior players at Cobham is a big benefit to him.
“The original Covid rules meant we could only have a certain number of players plus staff in the bubble but an alteration to that recently means we can have some Academy players to call upon, who are tested quite rightly in the process, and that is a big plus for us in terms of being able to train at the level we want to train. So, they have been in to train with us and some maybe involved in the game on Sunday.”
“We have called up both Tinos – Anjorin and Livramento, and Jude Soonsup-Bell who has been scoring goals in the youth team. We have called up Lewis Bate who has trained with us before and we have called up Henry Lawrence.”
“It is a great experience for them. It is something I wanted to do and was able to do at the club last year pre-restart. It helps training because it is really important to have competitive training and having young numbers allows that without killing the players physically between games.”
Lampard also confirmed that aside from missing players due to injury, none of his players are out due to positive Covid 19 test.
“+We have had some positives but we have not had any players positive in the last couple of rounds. We have had small numbers of staff and we have been testing so regularly. Our medical team have been fantastic, over and beyond what the Premier league are laying down. We test and we take people out and we don’t take any risks with anybody and that is only right.”
“The country is in lockdown for a reason and while football carries on, it means there is a lot of mixing going on, so we have to be ultra-careful. I am not completely comfortable but we have to toe the line, we have to try to keep playing but safety must come first.”
