I always preferred Lampard to Gerrard and im not just saying that as he's our manager. Seriously good player in a Seriously good era.
Top quality player. Agree with Tom, thought he was better than Gerrard.
I always preffered Gerrard tbh .. but really they were slightly different players
Both played in an era of absolute legends and all time greats and both were amongst some of the best of their generation i feel
For me, if you're 4-0 down at half time in a European cup final then Gerrard is your man, if you're looking for something a bit less gung ho, I'd go Lampard.
He was my favourite player during his era. Or at least my favourite English player for sure.
That's why it feels a bit surreal he managing cov now
That's why it feels a bit surreal he managing cov now
Play them both, should be no issues.....
I rated Gerrard over Lampard but it was close. For me, out of the 2, Gerrard had it all. lamps was a better goal scorer but Gerrard had the entire package of a CM
Left field opinion, I preferred Paul Scholes to both.
Allegedly we were going to sign him before Dublin
Obviously he’s not quite as good as TorpI was just thinking exactly that - very Torp-esque!
He was awesome. My favourite player of his generation outside of Cov players of course. On the whole was better Gerard or Lampard I’d argue that it was Lampard. Mainly because he always turned up and he worked hard on improving his game to get to the standard he did. You could argue that Gerard was the most talented but I always felt his was a wasted talent on how much better he could have been. Don’t get me wrong Gerard was a great player but I always felt he arrived with so much natural talent that he often left work rate and consistency behind. On his day Gerard was the better player, FA Cup final against West Ham I think is one of the best performances I’ve personally ever seen from a player but he never brought it every week for my money whereas Lamps always did. Stepping into an England shirt too, I’m struggling to think of one outstanding performance from Gerard other than the Germany away game under Erickson, Lamps on the other hand was a man of the match contender every time he pulled the shirt on.
Scholes was a more complete midfielder than either of them which is why he got shunted around in the national side. All 3 terrific players but ginger solidarity and all that.
England were too shackled to 4-4-2 during the ‘golden generation’. You even had Joe Cole playing LW often, same with Gerrard in 2010.
Lampard and Gerrard were just as good as Scholes in their own ways imo. It’s like comparing Xavi and Iniesta, Xavi had the vision and could dictate games but Iniesta was ‘clutch’ and always seemed to score in big games.
I think with Lampard/Gerrard/Scholes it's something that comes down to personal preference. In my case I'm just a bit more biased towards that Man Utd side of the mid-late 90s and early 2000s than I am Gerrard's Liverpool which failed to win league titles and Lampard's Chelsea because, well, nobody liked them when they came onto the scene.
All of them were among the very best for their position in their generation though. In their prime I would put any of them in the current England side over anyone we have available today.
They're all slightly different players so it depends on what job you want to them to do, but you'd think having Lampard and Gerrard as a double pivot with Scholes in the ten.
Then when you think about the rest of the team around that time. Neville and Cole as full backs, Ferdinand and Terry CB's with Shearer upfront with Cole and Beckham on the wings. And that's before we even get into the squad with the likes of Owen, Rooney, Carrick, Butt etc.
How we didn't win anything in the 00's is a travesty.
2002 WC and 2004 Euros were the best chances for silverware. The former ended by a freak goal and the latter we got robbed by a terrible refereeing decision against the hosts.They're all slightly different players so it depends on what job you want to them to do, but you'd think having Lampard and Gerrard as a double pivot with Scholes in the ten.
Then when you think about the rest of the team around that time. Neville and Cole as full backs, Ferdinand and Terry CB's with Shearer upfront with Cole and Beckham on the wings. And that's before we even get into the squad with the likes of Owen, Rooney, Carrick, Butt etc.
How we didn't win anything in the 00's is a travesty.
They were brilliant club players but none really delivered when it mattered on the international stage. EURO 2004 was the biggest regret for me, that team was excellent (and missing the suspended Rio Ferdinand) but couldn't get over the line vs Portugal. If Rooney hadn't have got injured in that game then it might have been another story although they were relying on an 18yo in a team of legends. I don't think the 2002 or 2006 teams were as good and we didn't even qualify in 2008. Was at both defeats by Portugal in Lisbon and Gelsenkirchen.
2002 we really should have won the Brazil game iirc, and they were up against an over the hill German team in the final. As good an opportunity for winning the tournament as we've had probably until 2018.
I'm another one that preferred him to Gerrard even before being our manager, I reckon there would be old posts to confirm that.
I think Lampard was the best goalscoring midfielder of his generation and any other nation would have build the team around him. If we weren't stuck in 4-4-2 still he'd have been a perfect 10 and succeeded way more for England.
Gerrard definitely unbalanced that team by doing too much, which he learned by dragging a poor Liverpool around on his own back. It disrupted Lampard for England though.
I think Lampard was the best goalscoring midfielder of his generation and any other nation would have build the team around him. If we weren't stuck in 4-4-2 still he'd have been a perfect 10 and succeeded way more for England.
Gerrard definitely unbalanced that team by doing too much, which he learned by dragging a poor Liverpool around on his own back. It disrupted Lampard for England though.
Rooney
Gerrard - Lampard - Beckham
Scholes - Carrick
Would have been my way to squeeze them both in. We were shit on the left for decades, thank god for Ashley Cole.
Gerrard - Lampard - Beckham
Scholes - Carrick
Would have been my way to squeeze them both in. We were shit on the left for decades, thank god for Ashley Cole.
These days you’d out Beckham on the left but then we’d have the same issue on the right.
Carrick was the missing piece of the England midfield, sublime footballer that even now is still massively underrated.
Scholes was the best of the 3, but I always preferred Gerrard. If you put either Scholes or Lampard into that Liverpool midfielder, neither would have shined like Gerrard did.
Scholes was the best of the 3, but I always preferred Gerrard. If you put either Scholes or Lampard into that Liverpool midfielder, neither would have shined like Gerrard did.