Arsenal legend identifies Frank Lampard’s role in Tammy Abraham’s goal glut

Ian Wright has traced Tammy Abraham’s glut of goals to Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, praising the youngster for the way he’s taken his chance in the Blues’ team.

The 21-year-old scored a hat trick in Chelsea’s 5-2 win over Wolves on Saturday, taking his Premier League goals tally to seven in just five appearances.

All the seven goals have come in the last three Premier League games, after the striker drew a blank in the opening matches against Manchester United and Leicester City.

He also missed the crucial penalty in the UEFA Super Cup defeat to Liverpool.

However, Wright has said that he is now proving Frank Lampard right for having faith in him to deliver, football.london report.

“It’s a brilliant start to the season for him [Abraham],” he said on Match of the Day.

“He was under a bit of pressure at the start for some reason, people saying he hasn’t adjusted to it because he missed a couple of chances in the first game but he’s got a manager who has faith in him.

“What I like about the first goal is that once he gets the touch, you think he’s going the other way but he pulls it back across the keeper. He can stretch the defence and once he stands you up, look how quick his feet are.”

Abraham will look to continue his impressive recent goals-coring form when Chelsea take on Valencia in their first Champions League game of the season on Tuesday.

Antonio Conte starts war of words with Maurizio Sarri as Inter Milan lead Juventus on Serie A league table

Inter Milan boss Antonio Conte has flagged war of words with his Juventus counterpart Maurizio Sarri telling the Old Lady manager to “calm down, as he’s on the powerful side now.”

The Nerazzurri beat 10-man Udinese 1-0 to retain their 100 per cent record, breaking two points clear of Juve, who were held to a 0-0 draw by Fiorentina.

Sarri had commented that it wasn’t easy to play in the heat of mid-afternoon in Florence, which he feels might’ve contributed to the fact Douglas Costa, Miralem Pjanic and Danilo all limped off, Football Italia report.

When Conte was holding his Press conference, reporters rather cheekily told the Inter boss about the ‘complaint’ from Sarri.

“I don’t want to say anything, otherwise we’ll have to start comparing balance sheets and financial resources,” smiled Conte.

“Someone ought to calm down, as he’s on the powerful side now.”

The reference was to when Sarri battled Juventus for the Scudetto two years ago as Coach of Napoli, but hit the headlines for protesting that Juve were always scheduled to play after his own team, which he believed was an unfair advantage.

Sarri also repeatedly stated that Napoli could not compete with Juventus in terms of financial capabilities.

Now that he has worked at Chelsea and returned to Serie A on the Bianconeri bench, those ‘excuses’ are no longer applicable.

At the same time, Conte is a former Juventus player and Coach who has faced pressure from Inter fans to renege his Bianconeri past.

Frank Lampard pays tribute to Fikayo Tomori (WATCH TOMORI’S GOAL AGAINST WOLVES)

Blues boss Frank Lampard has paid tribute to Fikayo Tomori on an unforgettable day for Chelsea’s young stars.

Fikayo Tomori scored his first goal for Chelsea, a stunning curled effort from long range, to open the scoring before Tammy Abraham racked up his first Blues hat-trick and Mason Mount rounded out the afternoon in injury time.

Every Chelsea goal scored so far this season has come from a player in the academy, a fine repayment of Lampard’s faith, Evening Standard report.

“Delighted for them all but particularly for Fikayo Tomori,” Lampard told BBC Sport.

“He has worked so hard from where he started to now it’s superb. Also Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount – we are trying to give chances to the youngsters and they are scoring, taking their chances and showing us why we should keep putting them in the team.

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How Rudiger, Tammy Abraham, Azpilicueta, Batshuayi, other stars celebrated Chelsea win over Wolves on social media

Tammy Abraham scored a hat-trick as Chelsea beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 5-2 at Molineux with all the visitors’ goals coming from Academy graduates.

Fikayo Tomori’s long-range effort gave the Blues the lead with just over a half-hour played before Abraham scored his first from inside the penalty area three minutes later.

Abraham doubled his tally with a header four minutes before half-time to put Frank Lampard’s side firmly in control.

The 21-year-old completed his treble 10 minutes after the restart, out-muscling Conor Coady before beating Rui Patricio to move top of the PL scorers’ charts with seven goals.

Wolves threatened a comeback when Abraham deflected Romain Saiss’s header into his own net and Patrick Cutrone added his first PL goal.

But Chelsea rounded off a fine day for their homegrown contingent when Mason Mount struck in added time.

Chelsea stars took to Twitter to celebrate their comprehensive victory over a team that claimed 4 points out of six last season when the two teams met at the Molineux and Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea grabbing measly one point.

Tammy Abraham@tammyabraham·
First hattrick for @ChelseaFC
⚽️⚽️⚽️ 3 points on the road. Thank you God 🙏🏾 cmonnnn boyssss!

César Azpilicueta@CesarAzpi·
Big three points and hat-trick from @tammyabraham ⚽️⚽️⚽️! Well done lads! Away support 💙💪 #CFC

Fikayo Tomori@fikayotomori_·
Not a bad first Premier League goal😏🤩 and 3 points✅. What a day! Congrats @tammyabraham1
on the 🎩trick brother ❤️.

Antonio Rüdiger@ToniRuediger·
First 45min this@PremierLeague
season & a convincing victory ✔ Thanks for the support! 🙏🏾 #Hustle #AlwaysBelieve@ChelseaFC

Mason Mount@masonmount_10·
Big team performance to get the 3 points!
@fikayotomori_… you need to start shooting more often 🚀🥴 Oh Tammy Tammy…
@tammyabraham🔥💙

Michy Batshuayi@mbatshuayi·
A great win and nice team performance today 💙 congrats to @tammyabraham
😍 ⚽️⚽️⚽️💪🏾 @ChelseaFC

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REVEALED: Day Blues legend Didier Drogba wept at Chelsea

Former Blues star Didier Drogba was left in tears by the news of Jose Mourinho’s departure when the pair were together at Chelsea, according to team-mate Steve Sidwell.

Mourinho had been in charge at Chelsea for three years and won two league titles but no manager is invincible while Roman Abramovich is still at Stamford Bridge.

The Portuguese boss left ‘by mutual consent’ in September 2007 and it rocked the dressing room, particularly star striker Drogba, who had arrived at the club shortly after his manager, report the Metro.

‘I’ve been at a lot of clubs where the manager’s gone,’ Sidwell told Joe.co.uk.

‘The hardest one I had was at Chelsea when Jose left. A lot of the players had been with him for a long time and it was a real family culture.

‘We played Rosenborg in the Champions League. We drew or lost at home and then we got called in the next day. ‘We knew that something wasn’t right and Jose got sacked that day.

‘We were all in the dressing room. The meeting was going on upstairs and it filtered down that Jose was going to go. ‘He came down. I’d only been there a couple of months and he was going round one-by-on saying his goodbyes, there was people crying.

‘Drogba was in absolute pieces, like tears. I think everyone was taken aback by it. ‘He went round to every individual and everyone was sort of broken by it.’

Drogba spent another five years at Chelsea after Mourinho’s departure, amassing 157 goals in 341 appearances, before leaving for China.

Frank Lampard explains why he adopted 3-4-3 formation against Wolves

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has revealed the rationale for adopting the 3-4-3 formation in Chelsea 5-2 win over Wolverhamption Wanderers.

Seven goals in a thrilling encounter at Molineux, all coming in the final hour of the match. A hat-tick for Tammy Abraham, who also scored at the wrong end for Wolves, a worldie from Fikayo Tomori and a goal for Mason Mount underline Chelsea’s superiority.

It was the beginning of a fantastic attacking performance as nerves calmed down at the Molineux, where top-six teams usually struggle to score, let alone put five in the back of the net. Afterwards, Lampard was nothing but delighted with the win.

“It’s a tough place to come. They haven’t lost here for a long time. They get good results against the top six teams because they defend so well and are dangerous on the counter-attack.

“We changed the system. The players took that on board really well. I’m delighted to come here and score five goals because not many teams do that.”

Lampard has often talked about wanting his team to be tactically flexible and adaptable as per the opposition at hand. During the match, those words came into wonderful focus, with Lampard’s team selection and decision to play with three central defenders. Initial confusion on and off the pitch at the return of the 3-4-3 led to justified praise 90 minutes later.

For Lampard, the praise belonged to the players who executed his instructions and did not betray the work they had done in training all week.

“[Wolves] play three at the back and they play it very well. There are two points really. One is we’ve conceded more than we’d have liked to. We had Toni back fit and to have three centre-halves gives you a bit more security on face value.

“And also I want us to be adaptable in an attacking sense. What it allowed us to do today is get Mason and Willian in really nice positions, inside wingers, behind Tammy. They caused Wolves exactly the problems we wanted to cause them. It was good to see the work we had done on it come off.”

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