Bayern Munich 4-1 Chelsea! Champions League results and reactions from coaches

Chelsea’s record scorer Lampard enjoyed a trophy-laden spell with them as a player, winning the Premier League and Champions League among other crowns, but suggested that they needed to recruit the right names to reach that level again.

“In the last 20 years we had players, teams with prime (Eden) Hazard, (Diego) Costa, (Petr) Cech, (John) Terry and (Didier) Drogba,” Lampard told BT Sport following their 4-1 defeat at Bayern in Saturday’s second leg.

“Competing for the Premier League year on year, getting to finals and semi-finals regularly. We know that’s not the case now… It’s not a slight work in progress. It’s a work in progress. It’s not the norm for Chelsea.”

Lampard, who guided Chelsea to fourth in the Premier League and the final of the FA Cup in his first season in charge, said he would look to further bolster his squad in the close season.

Chelsea have already spent big to bring in attackers Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner.

“We’ll look at that, because that’s our job,” Lampard added. “From having a transfer ban (last year) you feel we’ve missed where other clubs spent and improved… recruitment is a huge part of this game. Nights like this in a footballing sense, show me a lot, tell me a lot.”

“We will look at that. We have worked at it already. You feel we missed where other clubs spent and improved. Recruitment is a huge part of football. Now is the time to see if we can improve and where we can improve.

“I feel like in a football sense I know where we can improve.”

Havertz?
“I wouldn’t expect anything.”

“It is a work in progress. It is not the norm for Chelsea. We lost the best player in the league pretty much in Eden Hazard. People would not normally commend coming fourth for Chelsea, we want more but the feeling is we have achieved something with the group we have. Now is the time to think where we can improve.”