Lampard, Gerard And The England Midfield

Kit, it's obvious that you're talking from a biased point of view. How can you say Terry should sit on the bench? Na wa o! Do you hate Chelsea this much?     


Spot On!

with Hargareaves as a standing defensive midfielder who does the dirty job like the likes of Gilberto, Mac4, Alonso, etc,  Gerrard will be a better playmaker for the English team.

if i would have to use lampard at all ooooo, i'll play him as a supporting striker (i'll think he'll fit in),  cos he provides and scores goals when close to the goal area, or maybe I'll play him as a substitute to Gerrard.

betterstill a 4-5-1, or 4-3-3 formation might encourage lampard's place in the english national team with a brainy coach

Spot on! Their coach has to stop being lazy and start to use his head! 

i don tire for hear about England .

they sometimes have good  players but useless managers .

lampard and Gerrad are two poles apart

for both club and country
bleghhhh . . .

make persin hear word

too many tactics  , too much hype .

see as they are struggling to qualify .

Murinho or Ferguson will never end up with a central midfield pairing of two attacking midfielders!

They buy players to complement other players.

@RAZORR


Get it straight;

CHELSEA IS SITTING ON A KEG OF GUNPOWDER and am sure you know what that means

so stop yapping about what rubbish Lamps and Ballack play for Chelsea because they both have not been impressive playing together and even Lampard's game has dropped considerably this season

who is Lampard?

Who is being biased about that useless English team? coupled with the foolish hype they are soaked in ehn?

GERRARD IS THE BEST ENGLISH PLAYER, take it or leave it

The major problem with England is everyone expects them to play the type of soccer played by the likes of Germany, Brazil, Italy, France e.t.c.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for England to play that way without a major ball player dictating the midfield.

Germany - Michael Ballack
France - Zinedine Zidane
Italy - Andreas Pirlo
Brazil - Kaka
Portugal - Deco

England does not have a player 1 tenth as good as these guys. Watch Lampard who is supposed to play the role of a creative midfielder, not a single assist! All he does is shoot on sight. He gets the ball and does not seek to play any of the forwards into space, rather he makes a short diagonal pass and then runs into the box! He cannot hold the ball and find his team mates with a defence splitting pass.

Yes he scores so many goals at club level but that is because he has great players like Drogba, Essien, Ballack covering for his numerous mistakes!

Gerard is only nominally better. He is no ball player in the mould of all famous midfield maestros. Running around like a headless chicken and striking great shots from distance are not the hallmarks of great midfielders.
The above players do not score soo many goals (Zidane is not known for scoring!) but take them out of any team and such team will struggle! Take Lampard out of Chelsea and life continues as usual.

Razorr  knows a lot of football i must admit, but she keep talking of Mourinho as if he's the best coach in the world. Let Mourihno manage a team like Bolton then I would respect him. Even my grandmother would win the premiership if she has the same people at her disposal. Thank God Chelski won't win it this season. Man U will win it this season but next season the cup will be back where it belongs, at Arsene "genius" Wenger's lap.

You are right. England does not have a technically gifted player that can lead the team, what we call a MIDFIELD MASTREO. Other major world teams have that. Maybe England should mould Gerrard to take on the playmaker role. He is better than lampard.

THEY JUST  CANT FIT INTO ONE TEAM.GERRARD IS EXCEPTIONAL WITH OWEN IN MIDFIELD.ENGLAND NEED A COACH THAT WILL LOOK BEYOND BIG NAME TO BIG MATCH PLAYER. CLUB AND INTERNATIONAL DUTIES ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GAMES.

Razorr,

Have you not seen the difference in your team from when it was Makelele and Lampard?

Gerrard and Lampard cant play together
its either one sits down and the other play.
i will prefer Gerard play with Hargrevves in the midfield.
Gerard is a better team player then Lampard.

Or better still the coach shuld go down on his knees to beg Almighty Scholes to come back.
If scholes is in that team england will go far.

UP MAN UTD

why must lampard be the one to go,  Both player are good and I beleive they can play together. If morinho can play Lampard, Ballack, Mikel and get a result why can't McClaren do the same? If U insist one should go, it shouldn't be the one with 42 goals in two season for his club should it?

@ whimsical

42 goals or not Lampie is outta sorts at the moment - he's just not in form, so he should rest his butt!

english players play big boy football, like our naija  footballers. lampard and gerrard are not skilled players, they are hard workers,hard work they do for their teams-lampard-20 goals this season! take away the hard work and they are less than mediocre. thats englands problem. a lil bit of seriousness.

GERRARD LAMPARD

Skill 8 8

Passing 9 9

Leadership 10 8

Shooting 8 10

Tackling 9 7

Defending 8 7

Speed 9 8

As You can see, Gerrard just shades it scoring 61/70 with Lampard achieving 57/70.

In a game of Top trumps, Gerrard would only be ‘Gazumped’ by Lampard in his shooting ability. Off topic slightly, how many other midfielders in Europe would score as consistently high across the board as Gerrard? Sure, there are those who are more sublime in the pass, stronger in the tackle, faster and better at shooting. But he has no weak aspect to his game. He can play central midfield (as a holding or attacking player), in the whole just behind the srikers, as a right winger and also as a makeshift right back or centre half.

Therefore (in my slightly biased opinion!), I rate him as the most complete midfield player in Europe…with Fatty Lumplard a close second. In fact why should McClaren leave one out? He should give them both a kick up the arse and demand that they get their act together. It would be such a waste otherwise.

Does anybody agree?