{"id":166668,"date":"2019-11-10T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166668"},"modified":"2019-11-10T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:32:39","slug":"epl-lampard-reveals-what-he-told-tammy-abraham-before-he-scored-in-2-0-win-over-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166668","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Lampard reveals what he told Tammy Abraham before he scored in 2-0 win over Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Super-Eagles-midfielder-sends-message-to-Chelsea\u2019s-Tammy-Abraham.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea boss, Frank Lampard, has revealed what he told his striker, Tammy Abraham, during their 2-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Lampard also said that the Nigerian-born England international has proved himself to be a \u2018top striker\u2019 this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old became joint-top goalscorer in the Premier League with ten goals in 2019\/20 after he scored another during the Blues\u2019 win over Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>After a frustrating first half, Chelsea got the breakthrough on 52 minutes when Abraham latched onto Willian\u2019s clever flick before slotting the ball home.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Pulisic added another with a header to seal the 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham initially struggled to find joy against the Palace defence and Lampard admitted he urged his striker to liven up at half time.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by talkSPORT if he spoke to Abraham at the break, Lampard said: \u201cYeah, I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was slightly off it in the first half for his usual self but it was a tough game \u2013 there wasn\u2019t much room in behind, there wasn\u2019t much room to his feet and I said to him that sometimes the games can just be like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needed to liven up a bit but if you stick with it then you\u2019ll get your moment and top strikers do. At the moment he\u2019s proved himself to be that this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is can he keep doing it? But what I see from his mentality and desire, I believe he can.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea boss, Frank Lampard, has revealed what he told his striker, Tammy Abraham, during their 2-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday Lampard also said that the Nigerian-born England international has proved himself to be a \u2018top striker\u2019 this season. The 22-year-old became joint-top goalscorer in the Premier League with ten goals in 2019\/20 after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,12539],"class_list":["post-166668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-tammy-abraham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}