Frank Lampard is criticised by a pundit for placing a Chelsea player in the incorrect position.
Darren Bent criticised Frank Lampard, the manager of Chelsea, for the N'Golo Kante experiment.
Darren Bent, a former striker for Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur, has criticised Frank Lampard for tinkering with N'Golo Kante at Chelsea.
A midfield diamond with Enzo Fernandez, Conor Gallagher, Mateo Kovacic, and Kante has lately been used by the Blues. It was clear during our Premier League match loss to Brentford at Stamford Bridge by a score of 2-0.
Kante has been playing quite high up the pitch recently, almost like an offensive midfielder. A defensive five and a midfield diamond have left no genuine space for attacking players to enter the game.
Raheem Sterling started as a striker against the Bees, which caused Noni Madueke and Mykhaylo Mudryk to particularly suffer. It has been strange to observe this from top to bottom.
Time to go back to the basics
A squad that is having trouble scoring goals has nine defensively capable outfield players on the team. Bent said the following to TalkSPORT in response to Lampard's suggestion to deploy Kante in a very complex role:
To play him straight. [N’Golo] Kante's greatest strength is in recovering the ball and using his engine while keeping things simple. lacking goals..."
It is indisputable that the former Leicester City midfielder has scored goals recently and has been observed making decisive runs into the box to aid his team in the final third. That is in his locker with him.
His low centre of gravity makes it difficult for opponents to grab hold of him, and he is a skilled dribbler. But his best performance comes off the ball in a box-to-box role, where he is more at home. We should stop this experiment now.
He might be more successful if he plays as a defensive midfielder and makes runs into the box because most of the time the defenders won't be prepared for it. He will be marked more heavily and tracked much better by opposing defenders if he is playing as a specialist No. 10.
