Lampard can keep Everton in Premier League - Eriksson

Former

boss Sven-Goran Eriksson believes Frank Lampard is having a tough time at

but needs to be able to keep his side in the Premier League.

Lampard has lost seven of his nine games since taking over as manager of the Toffees in January and has not been able to cope with his mission. If this run continues, Everton, who are just one point above the relegation zone, will relegate for the first time in the Premier League era. Now Eriksson, who coached Lampard in England national team, has claimed that his former player can keep Everton in the league.

"Lampard got tough and strange when he had Chelsea. And I think maybe too early he took one of the biggest teams in Premier League and in Europe. Because it's not easy to come straight from a player to make a coach. Especially in the club you've been playing in, so I felt sorry for him.

"And now Everton, they're fighting, but Everton will stay, they will not go down."

Steven Gerrard, another former Eriksson player who was Lampard's teammate in England, is currently in charge of

and has had good results with the team. Now the Swedish coach has expressed hope that both will coach in the Premier League next season.

Eriksson added:

"I'm very happy to see them both. And I could imagine that both of them would be coaches in the future when I had them as players because they are both extremely, extremely intelligent as football players and as human beings, but they know football.

"They were not one of those players just going out playing and saying, ‘Give me the ball’, or whatever it is. No, tactically, they were very, very strong.

"For me, they played together in the midfield. They could attack, both of them. They could defend, both of them. So, if one went the other one stayed, and it's a pleasure.

"I'm sure both of them will have good career. And you can almost take a bet that when [Jurgen] Klopp is finished at Liverpool who's going to have that job. I'm quite sure that Steven Gerrard will be a strong contender for that."

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