Chelsea head coach Frank Lampard played down the personal competition with his former head coach and current Tottenham Hotspur coach Jose Mourinho.
Mourinho accepted a job at Tottenham a month ago. He narrowed the gap with his old club with five matches and four wins. The Tottenham Hotspur coach is now an unpopular figure among the Blues fans, but Lampard does not want Sunday's game to be the focus.
"The problem is that this is not a match between me and Jose. This is a match against Tottenham. I want to beat him. I respect him and know how good a coach he is. He wants to beat me , Because he used to coach Chelsea, he used to coach me, now he coaches Tottenham and wants to beat us." Lampard told reporters at the Cobham training center.
"I will always respect all my coaches very much. If I text or call the coach, I always call them "boss" or "boss." Even if it is gone forever. When you face Such an influential person, I know that is different."
"It is an honor to confront him, but I want to beat him. It would be strange to call him the boss now. Now I am a former player. , On this side, I will not call him the boss. But this does not reduce my respect for him."
"If you go to the fiercest opponent, the fans will give the answer. This does not mean they Forgetting history or disrespecting history. Mourinho is a coach who wants to work. He seized this opportunity. Mourinho would not care too much about this."
"Look at him with Manchester United The number of times he comes back, it does seem (he doesn’t care). We know this is a huge competition. Perhaps, in my time, it (Chelsea vs. Tottenham) is the most important London Derby. Whether on the pitch or on the pitch I have such a feeling on the Internet. So it may be the case.”
“Any competition, any intra-city derby, will slightly increase the stakes. I remember the feeling of eagerness to win and never give up. We are all like this Think.”
Lampard also believes that Tottenham forward Harry Kane’s professional ethics and his Similar to his time as a player, he hopes Tammy Abraham can follow his England teammate as an example.
"In football, there is no one more worthy of his (Abraham) respect than Harry Kane." Lampard said: "Harry Kane is the all-around No. 9. If not the best, so close The best in the world."
"He should respect this. I know he does this, and he is working hard to learn from Harry and must work hard to have the best professional ethics in the world. He will be different But he can follow this model and go very, very far.”
Kane’s professional ethics and desire are considered to be the key factors for him to become one of the best strikers in the world. Lampard admitted that he is a big fan of the England captain, and he saw himself in the Tottenham star.
"From the outside, he really reminds me of myself. He has maximized all his talents, or is maximizing his talents." Lampard added: "He is enterprising Boy, has family values, wants to work, wants to achieve something in his career. I respect him very much. On Sunday we will be opponents, but we respect him very much."
