“We’ll see in terms of selection. I don’t want to start talking about the team yet, but I don’t think there’s a point to prove,” Lampard said.
“I spoke about him before the last game: there is no point to prove for Jorginho. He proves it in training when he plays for me, and simply these things are [about the] selection. I just want to see the usual Jorginho.
“I’m very pleased [with his attitude] and it’s what I expect from players and what I want at the club because there is no way you go through a season without moments possibly out of the team, without moments that are slightly difficult individually or whatever, and you have to have a toughness to you as a squad, individually and collectively, hence why I made him vice-captain when I came in, because I saw that in his personality.
“I thought he did well when he came on the other day – it was exactly what I wanted in the game at that moment, to take control, to drive it with his voice and his quality of pass, which he’s done for a huge part of this season for us. I was very pleased with him.”
“The big issue this year was he came to pre-season injured and missed a massive part of pre-season,” he said. “We tried to get him quickly fit for the [UEFA] Super Cup, in which he was incredible with his performance, but he was still struggling, and it’s been a real domino effect for him.
“It’s time maybe to take stock. The injury he’s got now isn’t really related to the serious nature of the knee injury he had coming into the season, it’s just a small injury, which I think is probably more down to the games played and the lack of pre-season now.
“I’m happy to manage a player like him with the levels he’s reached over recent years in his career and where he’s at. I’m very happy to manage him as we see fit, so that will be a very open conversation between myself, N’Golo, our strength and conditioning coach and the medical team.”
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