Master Vs Apprentice: Mourinho Comes Face to Face With Lampard In London Derby

Frank Lampard will lock horns with former boss Jose Mourinho in a Premier League London derby today.

Lampard faces Mourinho, who managed him during two spells in charge of Chelsea, for the first time in the Premier League.

Three years after retiring from a 21-year playing career, Lampard is in his first season as a Premier League manager.

Chelsea travel across London having lost four of their last five Premier League games, while Tottenham have been rejuvenated under Mourinho, winning four of their last five league fixtures.

When Jose Mourinho took over as Tottenham boss last month, his side were 12 points behind Frank Lampard’s Chelsea and looked out of the running for the top four.

Added to that Spurs have scored 14 goals across those matches since his appointment in November – moving to fifth and within three points of Chelsea.

But Spurs will leapfrog their London rivals into fourth place in the Premier League if they come out on top on Sunday in a match pitting the grizzled Portuguese veteran against one of his key players during their time together at Stamford Bridge.

The pair previously enjoyed a profitable manager/player relationship, collecting two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two EFL Cup winners medals together.

This highly charged encounter will be complicated further by that shared history of Lampard and Mourinho.

By Gerald Dandah