Chelsea boss Lampard tells Klopp: I can't demand my players have edge if I don't show it

Football
25 Jul 2020 • 5:01 PM MYT
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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says him being passionate on the touchline won't change.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hit out at Lampard after their clash in midweek during Chelsea's 5-3 defeat at Anfield.

"I do have an edge," Lampard admits. "I would not be able to play for Chelsea for so long and at team that was fighting to be Premier League winners or Champions League winners pretty much every year I was here, and I have seen people around me who have an edge.

"I can't stand there and demand an edge from my players after Sheffield United and not have that in myself to try to drive the club forwards. It is not the right way to do it with the language I used. It can happen in the game, I have huge respect for Jurgen Klopp, I shook his hand at the end, it is nothing to do with what Liverpool Football Club have done.

"I applaud them to the highest degree no matter what the result would have been the other day. It was just an in-game moment for me."

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