Frank Lampard expects Ajax to be more dangerous at Stamford Bridge

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Frank Lampard has warned Chelsea he expects an even tougher encounter with Ajax than they faced in Amsterdam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Blues registered arguably their finest result under Lampard when they beat last season’s Champions League semi-finalists 1-0 last month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Michy Batshuayi’s late strike drew Chelsea level with the Dutch champions at the top of Group H&comma; and another win on Tuesday night would leave them with one foot in the next round&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"B3-Rxu2IW9P" data-captioned layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600"><button overflow type&equals;"button">See more<&sol;button><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Lampard said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I wouldn’t like to say that until that foot is officially in the next round&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I said at the start that this group would be tight because all the teams could take points off each other&period; That has been proved to be correct&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’ve had two good results and another one would be great for us with two games left&comma; but we must understand that even though we are at home now&comma; the quality and the danger from Ajax is as much&comma; if not more&comma; than the game we played away because they are such a good&comma; technical team&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After losing the opening game against Valencia&comma; which was disappointing&comma; we have shown a great reaction from that&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have to accept it’s expected of Chelsea to go through and that is no disrespect to any other teams&period; I have said already how hard the group is but it is more about our own expectations&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That is maybe why we had that reaction&period; We wanted to prove ourselves&comma; we wanted to go to Ajax and Lille and get results&comma; and we did&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But we won’t get carried away with ourselves in this group&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chelsea’s appeal against a two-window transfer ban imposed by FIFA is due to come before the Court of Arbitration for Sport on November 20&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The club were unsuccessful in overturning the decision when they presented their case to FIFA’s appeals committee in April and now CAS will rule on the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet the feeling among some Chelsea fans is that they do not need the ban overturning&comma; given the success currently being enjoyed by Lampard’s young side&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Stamford Bridge boss added&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re on a good run&comma; though&comma; aren’t we&quest; You never know&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s a nice feeling&period; Of course some players have come in and shown with their opportunities they’ve been given that they can have roles and play well&period; We are getting results at the moment&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Chelsea will always look to improve in the windows if we can&comma; if we’re allowed to and if the players we might look at are better or we feel are adding to the squad&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But at the minute I’m very happy with what I’ve got&comma; so I suppose that’s why the fans are as well&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of those youngsters&comma; Mason Mount&comma; is relishing the pressure that comes with mixing it with Europe’s elite&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We know how important it is to get results in the Champions League&comma;”<&sol;em> said the 20-year-old midfielder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After the first game we were a bit down but we took positives from it&period; 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