The Blues boss is excited to see his young wonderkid play 60 minutes in Friday's Under-23s match after coming back from serious injury
Frank Lampard says that Callum Hudson-Odoi's return is "not far off" as he backed Chelsea's youth star to shine in the Champions League
"I did watch him. I spoke with him this morning. He’s not far off," Lampard said at Molineux stadium.
"We have to be careful because it was a big injury and what we have done is actually got him back out on time but we have to make sure the strength is right in the area because that could lead to other injuries if we go too soon.
"The way he played on Friday, I think he’s not far away. He’s been training with us now for two or three weeks. We have got the Carabao Cup coming the midweek next and that will maybe be an opportunity to look at players who have been injured or different options.
"In between, if players, if Callum, shows this week how good he is in training I’ll have to consider him probably from now on. The comforting thing about today is you look at the bench and there are options, particularly in attacking areas.
"It was a strong bench and we still major injuries. To think we have Kante, Callum who played last night and Reece James knocking on the door again, Ruben and other players coming back.
"I have opportunities because of the size of the squad but at the same time, I want to keep consistency. After a performance like today, that’s where we need to go. We need to play like that and get results. It’s my job now to balance it out."
"I won’t consider age," he added of the Champions League ahead of Valencia's trip to Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. "I don’t consider it because they’ve shown confidence, personality in the group. That's easy. I just pick them on merit.
"Confidence and momentum is great. It’s not quite momentum yet but it is a good feeling to see the team play how they did. We need more clean sheets and we continually need to work on that.
"The Champions League is the top club competition in world football and I’m sure Mason, Tammy, Tomori are all excited for it. All the players should be. I’m looking forward to it, my debut as a manager."
yeyacdiz
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I think if odoi joined Abraham, pulisic, mount, and the rest up front, they will cause so many hazards for the opposition defenders
hoaanorsy
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don't know if I'm the only one who's seeing that we really don't missed hazard, when hazard was at Chelsea, he played good and the team played bad, now that he's gone the team is playing good, we only need to strengthen the back line, it's not like I'm ungrateful, but selling hazard was a very good thing for Chelsea
Fodlmopr
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FIFA should please give chelsea more transfer ban. why should we buy players when we have what we need at the Academy level. alley chelsea
Locclopry
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I must say, other teams must watch this man carefully. His philosophy is sinking so fast with chelsea, his yet to give something for the world to talk about
hoaanorsy
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we will have a very good team when some of our best players come back from injury, we're going to Do lots of damage come January, and next season we are going to be one of the favorite to win the 20-21 season
fukacktuz
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You came 2001 as a boy, left us 2014 has our legend and finally return to us now as our saver. Keep the blue flag flying high.
bababrsz
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I really give Cudos to you lampad ,you are a great man and a legend, you have all what it takes to take Chelsea team to a. greater level but. we need to strengthen our defence that's where we are having issue ,if am not mistaken, our last match with wolves was a great one to the extent that, we maintain a clean and. a perfect game for first half but, unfortunately, we started having problem when zuoma cane in to replaced Rudiger that was when we conceeded 2 goals that shows zouma is not fit ,we need someone who is agile and strong enough to handle our defense also. a striker to be assisting Abraham. while Giroud and batshuayi will be available for Europa
highestbee
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Will love to see this and so many good players on the bench