Raheem Sterling will be at the heart of Frank Lampard’s efforts to breathe new life into Chelsea.
The interim boss has identified the England winger as one of the men he wants to stop the rot at Stamford Bridge. Sterling has suffered a stop-start campaign due to a couple of niggling injuries as a whirlwind of chaos has blown through the club.
But the striker showed enough in the opening half to suggest his confidence has not taken as big a battering as some of his colleagues’ - and Lampard has quickly zeroed in on that.