Imagine having multiple world class midfielders and playing a flat 4-4-2...

Prime Scholes Prime Gerrard and prime Lampard in the same team would destroy any team in the premier league right now I genuinely think the reason 2004-2010 generation failed was bc of managers Imagine sir alex managing that team

He's now trying to fit Mount and Havertz in his team and it's beautiful

Forget Lampard or Gerrard The fact Scholes was played LM was absolutely criminal.

As a neutral, I do sometimes wish that Gerrard had moved to Chelsea back in 2005. He was so close to going and even personally handed in a transfer request, despite having won the UCL only a couple of months earlier. If he had moved, when Mourinho and that Chelsea team were at the height of their power, Lampard and Gerrard could have formed an amazing partnership, with the help of time and a manager like Mourinho. Then I’m sure the England team (despite having rubbish coaches like Erikson, McLaren and Capello) would have been incredibly powerful during that ‘02 to ‘10 golden generation period with the Lampard-Gerrard backbone in central midfield, and could even have won something. It would have been similar to Xavi and Iniesta who both played for Barca and helped lead the dominant Spain side from ‘08 to ‘12 to three successive trophies. It’s a big shame. But that’s not to take away from what Stevie did at Liverpool, and Frank at Chelsea. Both are legends at their respective clubs, and honestly it is weird to think of Gerrard in a blue shirt. But it’s nice to think of what could have been. Brighton fan btw.

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Scholes at the base of midfield with Gerrard and Lampard in front of him. Rooney dropping into midfield to link up with them.

No idea what Jamie says near the end that got them laughing 😕

Never understood why England didn't play a 433 Instead of sticking Scholes or Gerrard on the wing

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One day were going to see vids of grealish/kane/sancho saying the same about southgate

Lampard Scholes and Gerrard would've made a great midfield three, but then would Beckham, Owen and Rooney have worked as a front three?

We had to play a diamond with Gerrard and Lampard as the central midfielders which is why we didn’t have any success winning competitions as a country

This is just getting better and better 😎

Imagine this Midfield diamond carrick,Gerrard, lampard ,scholes 😍

Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, for me the best midfielders in the history of the game and I’m not forgetting about Pirlo, Zidane and others.

People who insisted that they could play in the same line-up were football's equivalent of flat-earthers

A 451 would have suited England so much better, we had so much technical quality, and pace, packing the midfield would have won us some serious respect in our so called ‘golden generation’

Both great players, but Lampard was mostly in the attacking midfield role that Gerrard excelled in.

Problem is we had too many players in one position. Manager needed to drop and rotate players in the world cup. Scholes on the left wing who was the best player out of those three was simply mind blowing looking back at it.

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Funny how neville played with scholes for 20 years and get never knew what position he played. Never played as the deepest midfielder in a midfield 3.

Just know that at one point in time, this could have been England's starting 11 in a 4-3-3 Seaman Neville - Terry - Rio - Cole Lampard - Scholes - Gerrard Beckham - Shearer - Owen

It’s so obvious the best formation to play was 433 with Lampard the attacking midfielder and Gerrard the box to box one due jose wanting him and if he got him he would of played in the essien role

Why would u not play a 433? Ik it wasn’t the ideal formation at the time but that 3 in midfield alone would win trophies

imagine a 4-3-3 with scholes dm, lampard lcm and gerrard rcm. Would've been perfect

Maybe if Lampard and Gerrad could also scored that penalty against Portugal, they could be WC semifinalist in 2006

I personally always thought the Gerrard & Lampard in the same England team argument was a pointless one anyway as in my opinion Gerrard was comfortably the better player of the two to the extent that he should've been picked to play in the central attacking midfield role and Lampard his replacement on the bench, in any kind of formation, when 100% fit.

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It's such a shame as they were the of the same importance for us as Xavi and Iniesta were for Spain, they clicked and won trophies, if they'd clicked for us I think we could've won trophies. (Gary Neville's argument seems quite poor as Scholes only played with them for about a year and in one tournament Euro 2004, where what he said couldn't happen as Beckham was captain and would have been ahead of the other three anyway. So I don't see what else Sven could have done to accomodate those four midfielders). People have to understand the England managers Sven, McClaren, Capello, and Roy for a couple of years, had no choice but to play them both, their form for their clubs made them completely undroppable.

Scholes couldn't defend that's why he could never play that Pirlo role

Mason Mount would have changed that teams dynamic if he came in at midfield

England should have played with a 4-4-2 diamond formation in those days. They didn't have good wingers but they had world class midfield so that's the only rational formation.

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Why didn’t they do 4:3:3 ??? even us fifa guys back in the day knew that

Lampard said it. Argentina goes home and it's a big family. England lacked team spirit. You need that in SPADES just to compete at the world cup

Double-mezzala, definitely.

If SAF Wenger or Jose would've managed.... Damn

What would have happened if they were playing in 4 4 2 diamond with Beckham as deep lying playmaker ,scholes and Gerrard on left and right and Lampard as attacking mid.

England have never looked like a team that's their problem.

Diamond. Carrick Gerrard. Scholes Lampard

Scholes Gerrard Lampard Becks Rooney Owen

Hargreaves should have been the holding man, Gerrard and Lampard in front of him and Joe Cole in the free role. Rooney and Owen

These English players came into their own when they were at clubs and multiple world class foreign players around them. But when put together as a group, they didn't have the balls to raise their game. They didn't have that world class edge to raise their game. At club level, other players would raise their level.

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One day, Mason Mount would make this statement 👀

It should have been Beckham Gerrard Lampard Scholes But it wad Scholes Gerrard Lampard Beckham

Calm but scholes > lampard > gerrard

Gerrard >> Lampard both as a player and a manager

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Its a bit of a myth that 4-3-3 would have fixed things, we played a sitting midfielder with Gerrard and Lampard as the two CM’s for the Euro 2008 qualifiers and were historically awful

So England players couldn't put their egos aside in order to forget personal rivalries on behalf of their country & it was the manager's fault?

stevie over frank

We were not good enough. Lampard did next to zero for England. No troll hating, just the way it is

Maybe it didn’t work because they weren’t as good as we thought? 🤷

This english players were overrated. If they were golden generation, the other countries were also have golden generation that time.

Nah just average players lol

Capello is one of the worst managers ever ever ever