Gary Lineker has attempted to settle a debate involving Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard.
The Reds icon is often regarded as one of the best players in Anfield history, as well as in the Premier League era. He left Liverpool in 2015 with 186 goals in 710 appearances to his name, as well as nine major trophies to his name.
One of the debates that often resurfaces over Gerrard is who was the better player between him and Chelsea legend Frank Lampard. The now-Everton boss scored 266 goals across 891 appearances throughout his playing career, amassing 11 major trophies along the way.
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Attempting to pick out who he thinks was the best player between Gerrard and Lampard, Lineker argued why he thinks the former Liverpool star gets the nod in his eyes.
“I think the better footballer is Gerrard, out of him and Lampard,” said Lineker, on BBC’s Match of the Day Top 10 podcast .
“But Lampard will give you just as much for your team in terms of goals and stuff like that, but for me Gerrard [is the best] always, he’s just slightly ahead.
“They’re both unbelievably high players, but then if you throw Paul Scholes at me I just say ‘I don’t know’.
"What I cannot ever understand, which for me is a bigger debate, is why on earth did they [England] not find a way for them to work together in the same team.
“They’re not the same player, they’re different, and they were super intelligent footballers.
“But we [England] were stuck in our ways of playing a 4-4-2 and either put Lampard, Gerrard or Scholes on the left. Design a system where they could all play in the middle, but they wouldn’t do it.”
