Frank Lampard quelled Chelsea’s individual mistakes in their 3-3 draw against West Bromwich Albion but gave Thiago Silva the benefit of the doubt on his Premier League debut
Chelsea lost 3-0 before half-time after a disastrous first half, where Callum Robinson and Kyle Bartley both took advantage of defensive mistakes from Lampard
Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Tammy Abraham brought Chelsea back into the competition in the second half, with Abraham equalizing deep in the stoppage time to save a point for the Blues
Lampard felt two points had been lost for his team and was extremely frustrated with the catalog of mistakes his troops were making
The 36-year-old Brazilian center-half let the ball roll under his foot and Robinson charged to shoot Willy Caballero to double West Brom’s lead
Silva was then sacked midway through the second half as Olivier Giroud was thrown out as Chelsea continued the game, but Lampard knows he won’t need to heal the defender for his mistake
« He’s been around long enough to know one, we’ll definitely give him this one in his first match
« And then Marcos loses his man from the third base from the corner. These are mistakes, clear mistakes [which cost us]
« You can have as many meetings as you want, but with these mistakes you are giving yourself a mountain to climb [We missed] a bit if the urgency in the team
« That’s two lost points at the end of the day – and it’s not a disrespect to West Brom You come here and you know the transition and any mistake would be something they would jump on – this and the stopped pieces You cannot legislate for the mistakes made today
« We created a couple of great chances in the first half I felt we would create more, the only other problem at 3-0 was West Brom was going to protect their lead more It’s a big lesson for us
« We will improve a lot, we always find our way with new players and a lack of preseason Today is part of the improvement process
« There are a lot of things we can keep improving on I’m not going to criticize every part of our game, I think they had three shots on target and three goals
« There were real mistakes There was nothing tactical that you could analyze over and over again – there were just pure mistakes »
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