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Mark Noble > Lampard + Gerrard Factos, too good to play for England

I’m not a Liverpool or Chelsea fan. I watched a lot of these players. Gerrard was very good but sometimes a bit too much looking for Hollywood passes.

Lampard was great. Apart from his incredible goals record, he could play short, intelligent passes through midfield. IMO Lampard was the better player.

There will be and have been several more players like Gerard.

There will never be a goal-scoring midfield machine like Lampard. Bellingham might like a word but I highly doubt he keeps it up.

Both were sublime. If either player had the ball you expected them to do the right thing 95% of the time…

Except for when they put on an England shirt together.

They were both the kind of ‘all-rounder’ midfielders that you don’t see so much these days. Both could tackle and get up and down the pitch, they were both good passers and finishers too. Gerrard was perhaps the better tackler and passer, Lampard got in the opposition box a bit more and had an incredible scoring record for a midfielder.

At PL level they were both the business. Hard to compare them because in the main Lampard had better players around him than Gerrard.

It must be said that neither of them quite convinced at international level and neither of them tested themselves abroad at the peak of their careers. Their international careers were blighted a bit by difficulties in fitting them both (and sometimes also the similar and equally good Paul Scholes) into the same midfield.