We’ll see. He’s talking with the club and hopefully he feels a bit of love from today as we’ve parachuted him in,”
he told reporters when asked about the defender’s contract situation.
“He was actually on his Christmas break when we called him in yesterday. He trained and then played.
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“I’d seen him when I was doing my coaching badges and you do a lot of hours with the academy and youth team. I saw him train a lot and I know he has a different dimension as a right-sided wing back.
“He has pace, low centre of gravity and can go by people. Of course he wants to work on his end product and all the last bits.”
Lampard says he asked his assistant manager Jody Morris, who has been coaching the Blues’ youth sides over the last five years, about the full-back after bringing him on to replace 22-year-old defender Fikayo Tomori.
He added: “My question to Jody when he came on was whether he had got the confidence and personality to deal with this, a tough game with responsibility to try and turn it. Jody said: ‘Yeah, no problem.’
Lamptey is the seventh Chelsea youth academy graduate to make his debut for the Blues since Lampard took over at the helm in the summer.
Chelsea are in action again on New Year’s Day when they visit Brighton.
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