{"id":371626,"date":"2025-12-27T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:32:05","slug":"we-werent-as-good-off-the-ball-lampard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371626\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We weren&#8217;t as good off the ball&#8217; &#8211; Lampard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coventry City boss Frank Lampard was pleased with the Sky Blues&#8217; defensive strength as his side edged past Swansea City 1-0 on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>Goals have dried up for City in December. They have found the net four times in their past five games after hitting a half-century of Championship goals in their first 18 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the course of the season, there are so many games you play. We had a hot patch earlier in the season where everything you hit goes in,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we had a couple of chances first half that didn&#8217;t go in, Ephron (Mason-Clark) gets a great goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have chances in the second half to make it feel more secure and it doesn&#8217;t quite drop for us, so try to keep clean sheets, try to do other parts of our game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t as good today off the ball as we normally are.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First half was more passive, less urgent, and that had to be said at half-time because they (Swansea) can play and we gave them the feeling that they can play, look up and find passes through us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We addressed that. They are a good team, they gave us a tough game and I am really pleased with the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coventry City boss Frank Lampard was pleased with the Sky Blues&#8217; defensive strength as his side edged past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,114342,36327,561,82,107913],"class_list":{"0":"post-371626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-coventry-city","11":"tag-frank-lampard","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-swansea-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}