Mateo Kovacic admits that he is a little bit behind everyone in getting to know Chelsea legend, Frank Lampard.
However, he already is a big fan of the football that the coach wants to play at Stamford Bridge –
a quick aggressive game, with rapid movement both with and without the ball.
‘I think everybody knows Frank quite well,’ said Kovacic, who became a permanent Chelsea player this summer.
‘I am getting to know him now and he seems really nice person and he has clear ideas and the team knows what he wants.
He wants us to be aggressive, to be an aggressive team and to play good football.
‘He wants us to be aggressive, when we have the ball to play quick with the ball, and when we don’t have the ball to recover it fast, it’s his type of play, like he was when he was a player, so he wants it to be like that as a coach as well.’