Trainer Frank Lampard was fired Chelsea After a series of poor results, the London team announced on Monday, a year and a half after arriving at the post.
This is how things are going in the Premier League
“A change is needed to give the club time and improve performance and results this season,” he said in a statement to the England team.
He Chelsea currently occupies ninth place in the Premier League, eleven points behind the leader Manchester United.
LampardThe 42-year-old club legend has failed to keep the Blues at the top of the table, despite significant additions for this season, with the arrival of Ben Chilwell, Kai Havertz and Timo Werner.
The owner of the entity, the Russian millionaire Roman AbramovichHe described the decision as “very difficult”. “In the current circumstances we think it is better to change the technical team,” wrote the president a month before the knockout phase of the Champions League against Atlético de Madrid.
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Leading the team in a year and a half, Lampard he led the Blues to an English Cup final and a promising fourth place finish in the Premier League in his first season at Stamford Bridge.
His replacement on the couch
The name of his replacement has not been announced, however The Telegraph revealed that minutes later of the dismissal Thomas Tuchel, former technician PSG, will be responsible for taking the reins of the Chelsea.
After two years in the Paris squad and reaching the Champions League final in 2020, the German is currently without a team, but he would have everything in order to take on this new challenge. He will meet the American again Pulisian because they both agreed on the Borussia Dortmund.