LAMPARD ON LEG 2

Frank Lampard is defiant ahead of the second leg and is using his past experience with both Derby County and Chelsea to prove that this tie is far from over. He's also talked tactics and admits that Coventry may have to change the way they play depending on how SAFC set up.

UNKNOWN STATE OF PLAY

“We don’t know how the game will look, we don’t know that they’ll come and play at home as they play away. It could look completely different, so we have to be ready for lots of different things.”

COMES DOWN TO ONE GAME

“The reason we've got to where we are is because of the way we play, because of what they (the players) do individually within that collective. You saw the way we want to play. Sunderland came and respected us, to be fair, in the first game and got their result. We can see the way we want to play. We need to do a few details better, which we can explain to the players. Other than that, the message is to keep doing what we’ve been doing and trust themselves. It’s a game of football.”

ATTACKING STRUGGLES

“Apart from the two goals (in the first match), the rest of the game was pretty much ours to a big degree. We played pretty well, had a lot of the ball, created some chances and they defended really well, making it difficult for us. So I think some of the responsibility is on us to be a little bit more intent, a little bit more at the top end of the pitch where things didn’t fall for us. Maybe the result could have felt better. It’s the reality of playing football. The team comes, has a plan to defend very low and they negate a lot of spaces that you want."

COUNTER-ATTACK THREAT

“It’s normal, they’re entitled to try and do that against us. You don’t want to give them the counter-attack moment or the last goal. But I’m fine with it. It’s what it is now. We just have to prepare for the game in front of us, go and try and play like we did the other day without the little errors that we put in. Try not to do those and also a little bit more intent, like I talk about.”

ONLY HALF TIME

“We know exactly what it is, this was always a two-legged tie, the game is still there. We’ve got great incentive to try and turn it around, turn the result around and leave everything on the pitch for sure.”

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES

“I think I’ve been in football long enough regardless of the Derby game to know it’s never done until it’s done, in both ways. I remember being 3-1 up in a Champions League game against Liverpool and they scored two to go 3-3 at Stamford Bridge. That was in about half-an-hour, the game changed completely. At Derby when we went to Leeds, we went 2-0 down, because we’d been 1-0 down. There’s too many things to talk about, so the game’s still there.”

FIGHTING CHANCE

"I think they know we have a fighting chance because of the way that the tie's landed and also the circumstance of the first game. The difference with probably the Derby/Leeds game was that Leeds well and truly beat us in the first leg. It was 1-0 but they were the better team, as they had been in the season and the games, so it had a different feel in that game. With this game, I think they’ve understood what the game was the other day in terms of a good performance and dominating the ball and know that with improvements to ourselves and tweaks, we can hopefully be better. It’ll be a different game in itself.”