and do you think that Steven Gerrard and lampard can play together on the same team.
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Well his the best in England, shame he plays for Liverpool, he would be the best in the world if he played for Everton, \nGerrard can't play his natural game when Lampard on the pitch, so NO
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Their midfield and defense are superb. The problem lies within their stikers. Last season, Milan Baros made a lot of opportunies with lil' Luis Garcia and Steven Gerrard supporting. This year, their top striker, although he's 6'7, can't even header the ball. Either they should teach Peter Crouch to play football, or buy a striker that can make things happen.
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Although I'm no Liverpool fan (urgh) I'd say a Steven Gerrard clone would do you good. Actually about 4 of them
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3 players: Gerrard, Pirlo and Kakà
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I AM ALSO A GUNNER FAN, HOWEVER I FEEL CHELSEA WOULD BE IDIOTS TO SELL LAMPARD. HE IS A PROVEN PLAYER, TO BUY BALLACK WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN BLEND INTO THE TEAM.
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i'm a fan of lampard too. yes he'll do it but owen, becks, rooney, crouch, gerrard can also do that
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Yes, I do.\n\nThis is the reason why: the loss of our best player is obviously bad news, but I now think we have the opportunity to add a balance to our team that has been missing.\n\nWith Rooney in the team we would play 4-4-2, with Lampard and Gerrard in the central midfield berths. This is a remarkably flawed system because both are attacking players with poor tackling skills (Gerrard famously so).\n\nSven is never going to drop Gerrard or Lampard (and who can blame him) but the loss of Rooney allows us to play a five man midfield - Cole (on the left), Beckham (on the right), Lampard (in the centre), Gerrard (in the centre) AND Carrick  (who is a tackling'holding midfielder, in the centre).\n\n(It's worth noting that no team has never won the World Cup without a holding midfielder - even Brazil have always needed a work-horse midfielder to allow their more flamboyant midfielders to shine.)\n\nEngland having a holding midfielder allows Lampard and Gerrard (two of the best attacking midfielders in the world) to head towards goal without having to worry too much about defensive duties.\n\nThis formation will require one striker up front on his own, and I think Peter Crouch would be perfect for this. He can hold up the ball and supply the knock-downs for Gerrard, Cole, Lampard and Beckham to run onto. (And if we need to be more attack minded, we can take off a central midfielder and bring on Owen to parter Crouch.)\n\nThis formation I'm suggesting has been well used by Mourinho and Benitez in England over the last two seasons, and it hasn't done their teams any harm.\n\n(Also worth thinking about: Enlgand got to the World Cup 90 semis without the sublime skills of the injured John Barnes. And France won the World Cup with Zidane missing three games along the way - he'd been sent off early in the tournament.)\n\nSven can make this situation work for him if he chooses to.
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It is a good question and quite right!! In fairness AND in all honesty, it is hard to see what Lampard has done to equal Gerrard - certainly on a club level. It clearly HAS TO BE Gerrard!! The examples you stated are just essential to this discussion.\n\nAnd indeed, it is that much easier when you do have four or five world-class players (as Chelsea clearly do) around you, than it is when you are one of possibly two, having to create that drive and passion for your team, and above all to lead by example. What's more you have to say that Gerrard in a Chelsea team (God forbid!!) would fit in more than nicely, whereas you couldn't expect Lampard to do what Gerrard does for Liverpool, if he was playing for Liverpool. Here, the determination and guts must surely put Gerrard ahead of Lampard.\n\nGerrard's work rate compared to that of Lampard is unbelieavble - he runs his heart out for Liverpool week-in-week-out, creates clear-cut chances, scores and produces moments of pure magic. His passing and often pin-point delivery from dead-ball situations surely puts him above Lampard alone. You could replace Lampard in a team, but there wouldn't no replacing Gerrard - definitely not at club level anyway. And besides, Gerrard does often have to face the daunting task of picking up a below par Liverpool by its very shoelaces, which is surely something players of Lampard's calibre could do, but not do so AND excel as Gerrard has done so on many occasions.\n\nNow this is not to say that Lampard is not a great player, that is not the case, as he is brillant - it's just that Gerrard is just marginally a better player.
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They've done it in the past with Souness (and he was not even a Rangers legend at the time) so why not.  But remember PLG will have just won his second championship by then and will be riding high in the champions league!!!
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I think he's got the facts right. But, Liverpool is a very good team, thanks to the likes of S.Gerrard and Luis Garcia, Cisse. Liverpool has been top 5 in the EPL for the past two seasons. On the contrary they've won the UEFA champions league just last year, now they're in the Finals for the FA Cup. Honestly, I dont think they can top the league, but they have the ability to beat the best teams in the world, as we all have seen. They definitely have been the best team in England as far as international competition. So I wouldn't keep them too far off the radar Mourinho.
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even though I am a West Ham fan, good luck to you goonies...and that hurts...but English teams take first priority over disklie of minging north london sides. Just like to say the odds of gerrard scoring a 30 yard belter from outside the box in the world cup are 1000-1, cheeky sod.
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I will go for gerrard. He has the leadership and aggressiveness.
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I think steven will do great this world cup, With him and Lampard in the middle England should be unstoppable. I know Rooney will do something special this world cup, I just know.
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I don't think that Ballack is well known for having a particularly strong sense of loyalty so if Chelsea offers the right amount of money, I think that he will sign for them.\n\nI personally don't see the need for Chelsea to sign Ballack seeing that he plays in essentially the same position as Frank Lampard does right now and is the same type of player - a midfielder who is creative and scores a lot of goals. Ballack is probably slightly more experienced that Lampard and is a better header of the ball, but there is no way that they are leaving Lampard on the bench.\n\nI also can't see Mourinho playing Lampard and Ballack together as Makelele is very effective in the holding role in midfield and Mourinho's formation pivots around that position.\n\nI think Chelsea would be better off buying another striker to be honest. Drogba and Crespo haven't really been as consistent as other top class strikers in the Premiereship.
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i think it has a lot to do with how Gerrard plays for the next few games, but it certainly seems like Del Rio is leaning toward Gerrard for the long term.  and why not? with the way he has been playing.  since Del Rio says that he's not playing Leftwich because of an injury, then Leftwich says that he's not really injured makes me think that Del Rio prefers Gerrard right now.
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Both of them are great players\nbut i prefer StevieG as number one, Actually Stevie G and Lampard are typically same players but Stevie G more complete rather than Lampard. He's able to play in many postions, he's great in attacking or defending...\nAnd he also a great great great captain, he's calm and smart ^ ^\nwhat a perfect skipper ^ ^
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Yes I would love to see that so we could see why in the world Sven would pick him. He hasn't played one game for Arsenal. But wow why wouldn't you pick at least Defoe or Bent who are proved strikers. I would even support Sven picking Vassal. Although I would not want to see him. And why isn't Gerrard or Terry captain of England. Beckham is so rubbish.