‘Frank Lampard FC’ would be RELEGATED and slumped 19th in the Premier League table
‘Frank Lampard FC’ would be relegated and drop to 19th place in the Premier League if he was in charge all season… even if he ended in a flurry with a win over Newcastle!
A ‘Frank Lampard FC’ consisting of his tenures at Everton and Chelsea this season would have been relegated before the final game of the season due to the manager’s dismal performances in both the North and South.
Lampard helped Everton to relegation last season when he took charge at Goodison Park in the wake of Rafael Benitez’s ill-fated appointment, but in his second season at the club, the club fell to 19th after the winter break.
The Blues legend was sacked after a 10-match winless run and replaced by Sean Dyche in January, but Everton’s dire situation has barely improved and the Toffees remain at risk on the final day of the 2022-23 season.
The 44-year-old’s second stint at Chelsea has also been unsuccessful, partly because of the chaotic situation Lampard found himself in at Stamford Bridge after a string of transfers in January sent the squad swelled to bursting point.
The manager has managed to manage just one win in eight Premier League games, the lone win against Bournemouth to save the club from the hitherto unfathomable possibility of relegation.
Frank Lampard’s 2022-23 season – with both Chelsea and Everton – has been disastrous
The Blues’ defeat to Manchester United marked their seventh scoreless draw in eight
But the former midfielder would not be so happy with his combined XI.
Lampard won 15 points with Everton from three wins and six draws in 20 games, and has only managed four with Chelsea, which would give the head coach a season average of just 26 points.
While Lampard FC would not finish in the bottom due to Southampton’s worst-ever Premier League finish by a total of 24 points, not even a historic victory against Champions League-qualified Newcastle – Chelsea’s last opponent this season – could save them from the drop.
Appointed as interim manager, Lampard was aware his former club would not hand over the role to him on a permanent basis, but his tenure since April has given them little reason to change their minds.
As well as stuttering in the Premier League, Chelsea were knocked out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals by Real Madrid, with Carlo Ancelotti’s team handing the Blues defeats home and away.
After his team’s 4-1 defeat to Manchester United on Thursday, Lampard said he had learned next to nothing coaching-wise during his torrid second term in the capital.
“In this period it was more about what I encountered and what I saw, and that has been very different for me,” the head coach shared, referring to behind-the-scenes turbulence that he again referred to when criticizing his side. suboptimal ‘collective norms’.
The former Blues midfielder was appointed to Everton following the sacking of Rafael Benitez
But since Lampard’s departure in January, the team have failed to greatly improve their table position
Chelsea are poised to appoint Mauricio Pochettino to take over permanently at the end of the season and the Argentina manager will have to sift through a groaning inbox as he begins preparations to restore the team to their former glory.
Should the Blues lose to Newcastle on Sunday and the results fall short, the side could finish as low as 14th to match their worst-ever Premier League finish in 1994.
Everton will also face a dangerous afternoon at Goodison Park, hosting Bournemouth and hoping the south coast club will give them a similar lifeline.
Only two points above the relegation places only a win can keep the side safe, their woeful goals deficit putting them in danger of championship football next season if Leicester or even Leeds steal a march on the Merseyside club.