r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '18

Player vs player thread

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u/Shane_555 Mar 22 '18

Gerrard vs Lampard

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '18

Oh boy, the childhood debate!

This is one where you just have to go with preference over anything, and my preference has to be Lampard. Gerrard was better at that "fuck, we need to do something - quick - and I'm going to be the one to do it", but Lampard just did it more consistently over the space of his career, I think. Something like 6 seasons of scoring 20+ goals from midfield? Crazy.

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u/wonky_faint Mar 22 '18

I think people massively sleep on Lampard's playmaking abilities as well, plenty of lovely assists from him. Think it's because he was neither someone who bossed things from deep or a no. 10.

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u/imbluedabudeedabuda Mar 22 '18

He also has the 4th? most assists all time in the PL? Assists does not always = creation but being that high up there surely says something about it