Lampard – It's just not good enough and we have to react

The Chelsea veteran midfielder Frank Lampard is disappointed with the team after losing 2-0 to Everton, and this weeks inquests will hopefully make the whole Chelsea squad decide to stand up and fight back.

There has been much talk about Andre Villas-Boas getting the sack, but Lampard doesn’t think the blame can just lie on his shoulders and everyone has to take responsibility. “Of course we do, it’s a group thing,” Lampard said. “It was a bad performance from start to finish. When you come to Everton, the one thing you know they’re going to do is fight you, press you and make things tough and we didn’t react to that. We created two or three chances and that’s not up to standard. We can only take that on the chin and apologise to the people who came up and watched it because that’s not good enough for Chelsea.”

“We have been fighting to win leagues. Now, we are fighting for fourth and that hurts, so we have to react. We know we are in a bad way and we have to dig ourselves out of it. Different players do come in but whoever plays has to live up to the standards we have set.”

Chelsea have got Birmingham in the FA Cup next Saturday and nothing but a big win will give Chelsea the required confidence for the much more crucial Champions League match in Napoli the following Tuesday. This coming week destroy Chelsea’s season once and for all if they don’t improve quickly….