Frank Lampard will be back in the Chelsea dug-out for the first time since January 2021 at Molineux tomorrow when we take on Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League, having been appointed caretaker manager for the rest of the 2022/23 campaign following the departure of Graham Potter.

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During his long and illustrious playing career with the Blues, Lampard found himself on the other side during similar circumstances, working under managers who had come in to oversee the team on a short-term basis. Most notable among them is probably Guus Hiddink, who guided us to FA Cup glory after replacing Luiz Felipe Scolari in 2009, and of course Roberto Di Matteo, when Lampard captained the Italian’s Chelsea side to victory in the 2012 Champions League final.

While Lampard insists he is his own manager with his own ideas about how best to proceed with the current Chelsea squad, it is clear he believes there were important lessons he can draw from those experiences.

‘Maybe, because I’ve got real good, fond memories of both those managers,’ said Lampard. ‘We had some more, but in terms of the success that I personally found under Robbie, which was obviously winning the Champions League, I saw how he affected the group and the personal relationships that he had and obviously the footballing things that he had. And Guus, in his own way, similarly he had a great personal touch, had a great football brain.

‘So there’s little things that I remember from those periods that I will try and affect them because this is a job that’s in hand. It’s in front of my now so I’d be stupid to not rely on some things that I felt were good, but I also have to do the things that I think are right now. So I’ll put both together.

‘But I don’t think it’s worth speaking too much about past moments. Roberto did an incredible, that’s a different part of Chelsea’s history. The important thing for me is to park that to the side and focus on the job in hand and I’m very excited to do that along with the staff and the players I will be working with.’

It is a similar story of blending the new and the old when Lampard discussed his plans for the team between now and the end of the season, explaining it will require a combination of keeping his focus on what lies ahead and bringing back some of the key attributes which he considers to be an important part of any Chelsea team’s DNA.

‘I’ve been thinking about it a lot, speaking to people who are going to be helping me to do this job, so I have my idea about where I want to go,’ he added. ‘There’s nothing that I will do that will look backwards other than things that can help us with a view to how we move forward, but I obviously have my own ideas.

‘I think that is to attempt to install the highest level of confidence I can with the group. For them to exert and show the level of passion of playing for Chelsea and an urgency and energy in their game. Those are our sort of principals that I really want to talk to the players about.

‘In terms of targets, we want to win as many games as we can. That’s the simplest answer, it’s more complicated than that, but at the same time there are big games ahead of us and every game is hard. The Premier League is hard, the Champions League is hard, but we have to have a belief in the players we’ve got in this squad. I’ve got a huge belief in them from the outside and I told them that. So it’s how can we take that in the right direction and of course we want to win games.’

The first step along that path will be trying to open his second spell in the Chelsea dug-out with a win when Lampard's Blues travel to Wolves tomorrow afternoon.