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Frank Lampard outlines ‘real opportunity’ as Coventry City boss offers fresh start.

Coventry City pre-season news from CoventryLive as Frank Lampard outlines clean slate for peripheral Sky Blues players.

Frank Lampard has told his wider Coventry City squad that they have a “real opportunity” to push themselves into his thinking and into contention for the new Championship season.

The Sky Blues are currently in Portugal on a pre-season training camp that culminates with the club’s first friendly fixture on Saturday, a behind-closed-doors match understood to be against Portuguese team – the identity of which is being kept under wraps for the time being.

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And the head coach insists the opening game and subsequent warm-up matches will give players who missed out on game time last season a chance to impress.

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“We’ve got their first match minutes (on Saturday), we’ve been working towards that and it’s important that we start the games because that’s when you can see the work we’re doing and how that translates onto the pitch,” said Lampard.

“It gives everyone those first minutes to get into their legs and gives some players who maybe didn’t play so many minutes towards the back end of last season the chance to show individually what they can do to be competitive, because when we were in the run-in last season sometimes the team can feel quite regular, so for those players who felt they weren’t playing so much now is a real opportunity for them to show in pre-season what they can do.”

Players who fall into that category include the likes of centre-back Luis Binks, strikers Norman Bassette and Brandon Thomas-Asante and winger Raphael Borges Rodrigues.

Speaking to the club’s media team, he continued: “It’s also good for me and the staff to see the work we do on the training pitch translate into a game. It’s very early days, so you’re not expecting too much, but you want to see some good things from the work and see how we’re going to go forward.”