article_snippet.sent: Rickie Lambert has scarcely been given a chance since joining Liverpool despite their striking problems .
article_snippet.sent: The England striker played 90 minutes 20 times last season, made 31 starts, and unlike any Liverpool player in the scoring charts this season, easily got into double figures.
article_snippet.sent: Contrast that with this campaign when in terms of Premier League minutes on the pitch Rickie Lambert has played the equivalent of roughly six-and-a-half games.
article_snippet.sent: When Rickie Lambert has started in Premier League or Champions League, Rickie Lambert and Liverpool have impressed .
article_snippet.sent: On Premier League Premier League start for Liverpool Rickie Lambert scored, and when Rickie Lambert played 90 minutes in four consecutive games Rickie Lambert scored in the first game, Liverpool won the next two, and drew the fourth.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, Rickie Lambert regularly gets more time on the pitch, and regularly fails to deliver.
article_snippet.sent: How come Rickie Lambert got more time on the pitch at Wembley last weekend than Rickie Lambert?
article_snippet.sent: But to be so underused in a season when Daniel Sturridge has been missing for so long, and Rickie Lambert has been ineffective, is inexplicable.
article_snippet.sent: Rickie Lambert was given more time on the pitch than Rickie Lambert in Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Villa .
article_snippet.sent: Rickie Lambert scored 20 goals for Southampton - Rickie Lambert may not be world class, but Rickie Lambert is better than the alternatives .
article_snippet.sent: Nobody can ever take away the fact that Rickie Lambert has scored for Rickie Lambert boyhood club Liverpool in Premier League and the Champions League.
highlights_snippet.sent: Rickie Lambert has barely played since joining from Southampton .
  