The wait for the World Cup is over for Frank Lampard. He has waited four years to put WC record straight. Fabio Capello also believes that Lampard holds the key to England’s glory bid. In the last World Cup, 2006, the crestfallen reaction of Frank Lampard to seeing his shoot-out spot-kick that was saved by Portugal keeper Ricardo.
No one had accused Lampard, but he cared it too much. For a tournament he had planned as a lasting memorial to his abilities, but sad to say that it became a symbol of his failure.
This time there cannot be a failure. Lampard had enjoyed the most prolific scoring season of his career. To his credit he has 30 goals for club and country.
Joe Cole said, “Frank is always going to do well, he’s always going to score goals for England.
If he gets one he gets on a roll and the best thing that could happen for England is for Frank to score in the first game.
“He does seem to score his goals in bunches and if we are going to do something in this tournament we are going to need Frankie to score two, three, four goals, we are going to need Wazza to score four or five and ones and twos chipped in from everyone else because we are going to need goals from the midfield.”
