Wolves vs Chelsea: 3 Blues Frank Lampard must start
It has been one turbulent week in west London, and with a new interim manager in charge, Chelsea has its eyes on a road trip to the Molineux Stadium.
Following some of the most uninspiring football of the season at Stamford Bridge against Liverpool in the mid-week, Frank Lampard is tasked with igniting a spark back into Chelsea Football Club.
Without a job following this season, the CFC great will be determined to show clubs elsewhere that he still has the tools to succeed in the English top-flight. With the hope for European football becoming smaller and smaller by the game, what is left in the league campaign has to be to build some sort of momentum for the Champions League.
Julen Lopetegui and Wolverhampton Wanderers return home as it seeks to end their three-game winless streak in the top-flight. Being just one point off of the bottom three, every game going forward for Wolves has plenty of meaning to it. In the earlier fixture during this league season in October, the yellow and black came into west London without a permanent manager.
The former Sevilla leader has provided the club some sort of stability with a squad that does not possess a whole lot of top-level talent compared to the west London outfit. A late equalizer at Nottingham Forest by Daniel Podence salvaged Wolves a point, potentially providing the side with confidence coming back home to face an out-of-form Premier League juggernaut.
Lopetegui’s men has beaten two of the Premier League’s “big-six” over the last nine contests, outlasting Spurs by a goal in the beginning of March. With Lampard back on the saddle, there are expectations of personnel changes, and potentially a formation alteration hoping to secure the club’s first goal in live play in 218 minutes.
Elimination in the Champions League to Real Madrid in a few weeks has been almost accepted by fans in west London, but if Lampard can reinvigorate a side with this much quality, who knows what could happen. Here are the players that the former Everton head man has to place in the starting XI in his first match back with the Blues since January 2021.