{"id":481118,"date":"2025-10-07T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:58:16","slug":"frank-lampard-blown-away-by-something-leeds-did-now-trying-it-at-coventry-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481118\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard blown away by something Leeds did, now trying it at Coventry City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-Insets-1-1-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Frank Lampard looks on, with Daniel Farke in a circular frame\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/danlewis-150x150.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Daniel Lewis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Tue 7 October 2025 19:40, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Lampard and Leeds United have not always seen eye to eye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/core\/wp-admin\/edit.php?s=spygate&amp;post_status=all&amp;post_type=post&amp;action=-1&amp;m=0&amp;cat=0&amp;ad-viewability&amp;topic&amp;author&amp;seo_filter&amp;readability_filter&amp;paged=1&amp;action2=-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds and Derby County \u2018Spygate\u2019 drama of 2019<\/a> instantly springs to mind, while Lampard has also been critical of Leeds since then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/news\/frank-lampard-gestures-at-leeds-fans-after-championship-win-v-coventry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds fans have never taken to Lampard<\/a>, but the Englishman can \u2013 even if reluctantly \u2013 respect what he saw from Daniel Farke\u2019s side last season.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/frank-lampard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lampard<\/a> has already taken one impressive trait from <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a>\u2018 promotion-winning campaign last season to instil on his own side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/daniel-farke-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Farke celebrates a Leeds win whilst at Elland Road.\" class=\"wp-image-189272\" \/>Credit: ImagoFrank Lampard hails \u2018outstanding\u2019 Leeds and Burnley figures<\/p>\n<p>Leeds and Burnley went up as the top-two sides from the Championship last season, each accruing an impressive 100 points.<\/p>\n<p>Lampard\u2019s Coventry finished fifth, 31 points behind Leeds, and they tasted defeat to Sunderland in the playoff semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>While there was a lot to admire about Leeds last season on their way to the title, Lampard was particularly impressed by the fitness levels of Farke\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on talkSPORT on Tuesday, Lampard was asked what he worked on in pre-season to get his Coventry side clicking in the way they have been so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of a group of 20-plus players, some don\u2019t love running, others do and others are in the middle,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to get them to buy in and tell them this is what it\u2019ll look like if we can be that team with an amazing work ethic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was clear to me last year, Leeds and Burnley were the two outstanding teams in the league and have a lot of Premier League minutes already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut their levels of output were bigger than others. That was our challenge this year, to get fit in pre-season to push ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lampard\u2019s Coventry are top of the Championship with nine matches of the current campaign played, and look good value to join Leeds in the top flight next year.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds on course to remain in Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Having a fit team is one thing, but Farke\u2019s current crop have much more to them than just that.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in the latest Opta supercomputer prediction, <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/news\/leeds-premier-league-relegation-chances-predicted-by-supercomputer-after-tottenham-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds are now down to narrowly avoid Premier League relegation<\/a> in 17th place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Leeds-Opta-prediction-1-820x1024.png\" alt=\"Leeds United's predicted Premier League finish is 17th place\" class=\"wp-image-210168\" \/>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>Some will wonder why Leeds are down to finish so low considering they are currently 15th, but ultimately anywhere above the bottom three is an achievement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/transfers\/leeds-transfer-targets-after-new-sky-sports-update-including-player-frank-lampard-is-huge-fan-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farke will be backed to sign new players for Leeds in January<\/a>, but it is all about getting points on the board between now and the window reopening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Tue 7 October 2025 19:40, UK Frank Lampard and Leeds United have not always seen eye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,7129,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-481118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-frank-lampard","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115334659091197644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}