Frank Lampard feels Chelsea's hectic schedule is hampering efforts to work through the team's difficulties on the training pitch.Lampard was appointed last Thursday but has had limited time with his players due to a fixture pile-up that will see the team play four times in 11 days.The squad and the manager worked together for the first time the day before last Saturday's defeat to Wolves, then on Tuesday flew to Madrid to face European champions Real in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.They returned in the early hours of Thursday, and on Saturday face Brighton at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League as they look to end a run of four games without a goal - the club's longest scoreless run since 1993.Lampard said those goalscoring woes can only be resolved through application in training, but with so little opportunity to work with the side at at Cobham, opportunities to look for solutions have been limited."I understood (the problem) before I came," the interim boss said. "Trying to address it is our job of course.
There's been a lot of talk about belief, I've said that word a lot myself. The reality is it's work, and to replicate on the training pitch.
To have enough urgency in our attacking game that we have numbers in and around the box, and an idea of how we want to attack."In a tight turnaround, the work on the training pitch is not there.
You can't work the players physically when you play three games in six days. It's about putting the message across about what we want to be and how we want to play."We'll communicate (what it means to play for Chelsea) to (the new players) and work towards it.