CHELSEA fans have been left baffled by Frank Lampard's latest team selection.
The Blues appeared to pick five defenders and four midfielders for their West London derby against Brentford at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard selected a defence comprising of Cesar Azpilicueta, Wesley Fofana, Thiago Silva, Trevoh Chalobah and Ben Chilwell.
While he beefed up his midfield with Enzo Fernandez, N'Golo Kante, Mateo Kovacic and Conor Gallagher.
Raheem Sterling appeared to be the team's lone attacker.
Upon the line-up announcement, one disgruntled fan wrote: "That is the worst Chelsea team I’ve ever seen not even joking."
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While a second tweeted: "What a joke."
A third blasted: "This is grim."
And another added: "Lampard wants to ruin us before he leaves. Geeez!!"
A further angry Twitter user observed: "Absolutely disgusting. Justice for Mudryk and Madueke."
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Lampard has lost all four of his matches back at the helm since returning to Stamford Bridge as caretaker boss.
The Blues lost both legs of their Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid.
While they were also defeated 1-0 at Wolves and 2-1 by Brighton at the Bridge.
Chelsea's unusual starting XI shouldn't come as a surprise to Blues fans as Lampard hinted that he'd ring the changes in Tuesday's pre-match press conference at Cobham.
The club legend said: "If they deserve it, for sure. There’s the individual work of showing that you deserve it and I’m fully for that.
"In my first period at the club I came in with a transfer ban and losing big players and everyone said of course the young players would get in the team.
"They got in the team because of how they trained and those things and that’s a culture you need at a football club and not something that should change just for the moment.
"Every day in training is an opportunity now to try and show you deserve to be in the team I’ve shown as a coach, if you do that you’ll always get an opportunity with me."
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