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Topics: Michael Owen, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Football
Marcus Chan
Topics: Michael Owen, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Football
Michael Owen once settled the Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard debate with an incredible answer.
Over the years, fans up and down the land have been arguing about which one out of Lampard, Scholes and Gerrard was the better player.
Of course, Liverpool fans will back their former skipper, Manchester United supporters will pledge their allegiance to Scholes and Lampard will have the votes from the Chelsea faithful.
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Former Liverpool, Real Madrid and England man Owen, who played with all three players, once settled the debate.
He said on The Greatest Game with Jamie Carragher podcast: “If you watch Scholesy in training, your tongue is hanging out. He can give you the eyes, you can think he's heading it that way and he'll almost do a reverse spinner off the other side of his head. He can drop a ball on a sixpence. He is just total and utter genius.
“But there's that and there's the actual practicalities of playing on a big pitch where you need size, strength, substance, running ability, all these things.
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“And if you play one v one, you against you, Stevie against any of the names that you've played, I think he would eat them for dinner.”
Owen added: “Someone like Scholesy obviously had different attributes. I mean, unbelievable the way he changed his game from being a bombing midfielder scoring to a quarterback. Total genius. Frank Lampard, who can question his goal scoring and how he got every ounce out of his ability?
“But to me, Stevie's on a different level than anything I've seen or played with and as you've said, I'm not blowing smoke up my a***, I've played with some great Man United players, Liverpool players, Real Madrid, England.
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“Put it this way. If i'm saying tomorrow rewind the clock, you're going into battle now, you're playing in the Champions League final, who's your first pick? I'd have Steven Gerrard as my first pick out of anyone.”