Chelsea defeated in pre-season friendly

Frank Lampard’s goal could not prevent an almost full-strength Chelsea from slipping to a 2-1 pre-season friendly defeat away to Hamburg tonight.

The England midfielder put the Blues ahead in the 24th minute, tapping Michael Essien’s unselfish square pass into an empty net, but Mladen Petric capitalised on a mistake by Yury Zhirkov, on at left-back for Ashley Cole, to beat Ross Turnbull with 18 minutes to go.