Former Liverpool defender and now pundit Jamie Carragher reckons Frank Lampard's Chelsea experience may not help him in his quest to save Everton from the drop in the Premier League this season.
Approaching the end of the international break, all focus is back on the Premier League title and relegation race. Unfortunately for Chelsea fans, they are going to have to witness club icon Lampard fight for his life with the Toffees over the last few months of the season. Currently sitting in the precarious position of 17th in the standings with a mere 25 points and a daunting fixture schedule ahead of them, Lampard certainly has his work cut out to try and keep Everton in the top flight.
They next face West Ham away from home this weekend with a point at this moment a miraculous result for Everton, especially considering their dire away record in the Premier League this term that has carried over from the Rafa Benitez era. Lampard, as a player, knew how to win everything with Chelsea but his managerial win ratio tells mixed stories at this moment. His winning pedigree in a playing sense has Carragher questioning just how well his former England teammate can react in the face of adversity.
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Of course, once things started to go wrong for the 43-year-old in the Stamford Bridge hot seat, he wasn't able to re-steer the ship back in the right direction, and that eventually led to Thomas Tuchel being appointed- something that was the best outcome for the club despite initial uproar from the fans who initially believed, like Nick Candy, that the all-time top scorer in west London wasn't given enough opportunities to turn things around. "The big thing for Frank is throughout his career, he's been in teams who are winning," Carragher said on the latest edition of The Overlap.
"And even at Derby and Chelsea, he wanted them to go a little better but they were winning most weeks. Getting into the playoffs, you are coming in Monday morning with that winning feeling. Even with Chelsea, yes, okay he didn't win a couple of trophies but they were winning most weeks.
"He's now at a club where he's got to get used to losing right now with the run that they are on- the run that these players have been on before and what he's on now. Now, he's got to be the guy who comes in on Monday and lift the players and this is a Frank Lampard who is not used to losing as a player.
"It's tough, that feeling coming into a training ground on Monday morning when you have had a bad defeat and that's the big thing for Frank, he's never had to do this in his managerial career- he's always been involved in good teams. When you talk about Goodison, that is one of the things that have gone well, there's been a good atmosphere in a lot of the games where they've had good results and Frank has been on the pitch and embracing the supporters. Everton fans are behind Frank."
