Friday, March 27, 2009

Chelsea's Frank Lampard Says He Can Work Wirh Liverpool FC Captain Steven Gerrard

Frank Lampard is ready to sacrifice his natural attacking tendencies to ensure that he and Steven Gerrard can finally work together in England’s midfield.

The Chelsea star has been playing a more disciplined holding role since Fabio Capello took charge of the national team 15 months ago.

It has allowed Gerrard to do more of the attacking, although he was asked to play out of position on the left wing in his last international appearances against Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Capello’s predecessors, Sven-Goran Eriksson and Steve McClaren, both failed to find a way of utilising the pair but Lampard insists the Italian has found the key.

"The way Capello works is very authoritative," said Lampard. "Other managers will sit you down and ask how this or that is going, whereas he will just tell us how we’re going to do it. I am playing a different role. It is much more of a holding position, while Steven has been asked to play more on the left, but to be fair it’s worked.

"There had to be a re-jigging of the midfield because it wasn’t working. I do want to get forward because that is my natural game but I will try to adapt."

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