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Paul Scholes had admitted he wouldn’t have been able to do the job Steven Gerrard performed at Liverpool, describing his longtime rival as a ‘match-winner’. The Manchester United icon hailed Gerrard in a recent interview, also conceding he was an inferior athlete as an age-old three-way football debate rages on.
Scholes and Gerrard dominated the Premier League midfield scene for years alongside Chelsea legend Frank Lampard.
And since their retirements, the debate surrounding who the better English player was continues.
All three thrived in different areas of the game. Scholes was a relentless winner with as good a passing range as any footballer to ever walk the face of the earth.
Meanwhile, Gerrard regularly produced clutch moments for Liverpool, and Lampard also thrived more than any midfielder in Premier League history in the final third.
Recently asked who he believed the better player was between himself and Gerrard, Scholes remained tight-lipped.
But the Old Trafford great heaped praise on Liverpool’s iconic No 8 and admitted there were areas of his game he couldn’t compete with.
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“I can’t answer that. Gerrard’s a great player. We’re different. We’re very different… he’s an athlete,” Scholes told Rio Ferdinand’s Vibe with Five.
“I think he’s more of a match-winner. But he was playing in a team where he probably had to be. I was more part of a team. He was more individual, I think.”
Scholes continued by claiming he wouldn’t have been able to perform the same role as Gerrard if he earned his fame playing for Liverpool.
He added: “I wouldn’t be able to do what he did at Liverpool. Whether he could’ve done it at United, I don’t know. I don’t see why not. But I couldn’t have done what he did at Liverpool, no.”
Scholes undoubtedly will prefer his career to Gerrard’s, though, making over 700 appearances across 20 years for United after graduating as part of the Class of ’92.
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The 48-year-old lifted 25 trophies during his United career, including 11 Premier League titles and two Champions League crowns.
He also boasts the status of a one-club player and earned 66 caps for England.
Gerrard’s trophy count totalled just nine, a measly figure compared to Scholes’ grand haul, and he failed to win a league title at Anfield.
But there can be no questioning his quality as an individual, which is why so many football fans consider him England’s greatest-ever midfielder.
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