{"id":13166,"date":"2023-04-09T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2023-04-09T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T14:58:14","slug":"chelsea-crash-on-lampard-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13166","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Crash On Lampard Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Frank Lampard\u2019s return started with a loss for Chelsea as his first game back in charge ended in a 1-0 defeat at Wolves on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lampard made a surprise return to Stamford Bridge on Thursday when he was appointed until the end of the season following Graham Potter\u2019s sacking last Sunday after just seven months in charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the ex-Chelsea midfielder, who was dismissed by the club\u2019s former owner Roman Abramovich in January 2021, could not provide an immediate lift for the Blues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chelsea, on their third manager this season following Potter\u2019s exit and Thomas Tuchel\u2019s sacking in September, remain 11th after a fourth consecutive game without a win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The presence of Lampard, Chelsea\u2019s record goal scorer, did little to inspire his players and Matheus Nunes won it for Wolves in the 32nd minute with a superb half-volley into the far corner from the edge of the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sacked by lowly Everton in January after less than a year in charge, Lampard will now turn his attention to Wednesday\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg at holders Real Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Lampard\u2019s return started with a loss for Chelsea as his first game back in charge ended in a 1-0 defeat at Wolves on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1373,4024],"class_list":["post-13166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13168,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions\/13168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}