Chelsea boss Lampard on Southampton draw: I'm frustrated

Football
18 Oct 2020 • 7:47 AM MYT
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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard admitted frustration after their 3-3 draw at Southampton.

Chelsea collapsed in the second-half to allow Saints to earn a point.

"I'm frustrated and the players are," he said. "They would be because the first half was as good as we've played this season. We played some great football, got two goals, could have had more.

"When you concede before half-time you know that changes the tone of the game a lot. And then we got 3-2 up and we concede again late on from a free-kick. It's disappointing. You want to pick up the points at home against teams like Southampton, but you have to respect that they're a very good team that can make it very difficult for you. And when they made it difficult in the second half we could have certainly dealt with it better.

"They were the better side in the second half and on the flip side we were much better in the first half, when I think we could have really put the game beyond Southampton with more goals, but we conceded late on which can happen."

He added: "There's certainly a game management element to it, when you want to be able to see out a game, kill it off. But we turned the ball over which led to the free-kick, then it's a second ball, so there are a lot of elements to it. You can recreate it in training, you can talk about it a lot, but it's disappointing obviously when it happens."