A spirited second half performance saved the Blues’ blushes after an early horror show against the Baggies.
Kyle Bartley and Callum Robinson’s brace gave Slaven Bilic’s men a three-goal lead 27 minutes into the game but Lampard’s men mounted a comeback after halftime thanks to Chelsea academy graduates Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Tammy Abraham.
Lampard was not happy with his team’s performance as he thinks they have dropped two valuable points, and insists such result is a wake up call.
“We lost two points - and that's no disrespect to West Brom,” the Englishman said.
“You come here and you know the transition and any mistakes would be something they would jump on - that and set pieces. You can't legislate for the mistakes.
"It was mistakes, clear mistakes [that cost us]. You can have as many meetings as you want but with those mistakes you give yourself a mountain to climb. [We lacked] a bit of urgency in the team.”
"We created two or three great chances in the first half. I felt we would create more, the only other problem at 3-0 was West Brom were going to protect their lead more.”
“It is a big lesson for us. We will get a lot better, we're still finding our way with new players and a lack of pre-season. The game was part of the process of getting better.”
"There is a lot we can keep getting better at. I'm not going to criticise every part of our game, I think they had three shots on target and got three goals. There were genuine mistakes. There was nothing tactically you can analyse again and again - there were just pure mistakes."
