Myself and a few other posters were remarking the other day about how many deflected goals this chap scores. We reckoned over half his goals are deflections! Maybe the reason he didn’t score in the World Cup was because all his strikes were clean rather than hitting about 6 lads and then dribbling in. Anyway, I’ve decided to set up a thread in his honour to track his goals this season.
Weds 16th Aug: Goal for England vs Greece in international friendly; DEFLECTION.
Sun 20th Aug: Goal for Chelsea vs Manchester City in EPL; DEFLECTION.
That’s 2 out of 2 so far. Another vile character too!
“I know Chelsea’s winner at Reading on Saturday went down as an Ivar Ingimarsson own-goal, but it begs the question: just how many of Frank Lampard’s goals are deflected?” asks Adam Walkden.
This is a tricky one to answer comprehensively, Adam, as the, ahem, extensive Guardian Unlimited library doesn’t include ‘Lampard: the West Ham Years’, so we were unable to research his output at Upton Park.
But we have done the necessary on Lampard’s five-and-a-bit years at Stamford Bridge, and are surprised - and disappointed - to report that only six of his 73 goals for Chelsea have been deflected: a miserable 8%. If you take away penalties, that rises to just under 10% (six out of 62). Either way, it would seem that Lampard’s deflected glory is not as great as the nation’s many Frankophobes would have you believe. Still, he’s getting better: none of the deflections came in his first two seasons at Stamford Bridge.
No way he meant it. He’s just trying to stand the ball up at the back post for someone to head home and it just dropped in. It’s still a good cross to get that sort of lob when spinning around but it was a fluke of a goal.
I remembered this thread when I saw Lampard’s deflected goal against Liverpool earlier.
The camera zoomed in on Carragher after they initially showed a few seconds of Lampard’s celebration as it was Carragher who slid in to try make the block but the ball looped up off his leg, over the 'keeper’s head and down into the far corner.
Anyway, you could clearly lip-read Carragher shouting, ‘Jammy bastard.’
'Twas funny the way Crouch dived in and got sent off. It reminded me of a big gangly guy falling over when ice-skating or something.
Disgraceful that he had is red card rescinded whereas Aliadiere’s claim for wrongful dismissal was increased because it was considered frivolous. Be raging if I was Gibson - it’s pretty much exactly what he was saying last week, one rule for the big 4 and another for everyone else. Lampard is some coooooooont.
A truly awful decision. It’s simply illogical and the only explanation therefore is favouritism to the so-called ‘Big 4’. And you’re right Clarkey, it makes Aliadiere’s ‘frivolous’ appeal result seem even more ludicrous and unfair.
it was a ridiculous red card but in light of the Aliadiere decision (who’s red card was equally ridiculous) last week and that controversy that caused it’s an absolute disgrace and it just shows how clueless some of the powers that be within the FA/disciplinary committee actually are.
Odd the way no other in the Premiership seems to score as many deflected goals. Odd the way no midfielder in the Premiership can bring a goalscoring record to the table which would be in the same ballpark as Lampard over the past few seasons. I love the way people whine on about how over-rated he is. Somehow I don’t think him, his team-mates, or his manager really care about what we say, when he is on his way to 25 goals in a season, AGAIN. Someone said the other night that he’s probably the best timer of runs into the box that there has ever been in the Premiership. Not something people will acknowledge in a hurry, but there’s definitely something in it.
Valid post Sledgehammer though I think Lampard has failed to do it outside the EPL as of yet. Haven’t really see him perform well in an important Champions League Game against high quality opposition and he seems to have struggled whenever England are up against a good side (open to correction). One of those players who shines against poor teams but is a million miles from being a world class player.
He single handedly dragged Chelsea through against Bayern a few years ago over two legs, but Chelsea as a team under both Mourinho and Grant have failed to show up for some really big knockout games so although true it’s not that much of an issue individual to him. He still has this season to stamp his name on a top quality Champions League tie - his recent form suggests he might do it against the winners of the Liverpool-Arsenal game, but we’ll see. If he did it against Arsenal in the league on Grand Sham Sunday Sunday I’d be happy.
[quote=“Sledgehammer”] Odd the way no midfielder in the Premiership can bring a goalscoring record to the table which would be in the same ballpark as Lampard over the past few seasons.
Someone said the other night that he’s probably the best timer of runs into the box that there has ever been in the Premiership. Not something people will acknowledge in a hurry, but there’s definitely something in it.[/quote]
Sledge - on the first point, Ronaldo comes to mind over this season and last season.
2nd point - wouldnt say the best but one of the best. Scholes was the master here.
Think Lampard, like Gerrard is over-rated. Its fine scoring hat-tricks against the likes of Derby but where is he when the chips are down against one of the bigger teams.
