Player watch: Christian Eriksen

[Derp]

Think this is a bit overreaching, he played the ball across the 18 yard box and he also played it behind Kane, who readjusted well and showed the difference being a world class striker makes as he used it to his advantage.

I'm not saying this to criticise Eriksen but just feel that's overstating it a bit and that doesn't take away from the fact he played a big part in both goals. Now Lamela's pass to Son vs Leicester, that was sublime.

Thanks for proving my point. The whole build up was a perfect counter attack and i have no idea how anyone can call it overreaching. Eriksen had to first time it with the outside of his weak foot to even get it to Kane. It was brilliant and for a second showed us what we have missed from peak Eriksen.

You rarely see goals as good as that, perfect from the front 3 and you show that when you want to teach kids about counter attacking football.

The only reason people are trying to undermine the goal is because Eriksen was involved. I don’t know if it’s sad or hilarious to see people jumping through hoops to not talk about it. Maybe a bit of both...

 

[wrd]

Thanks for proving my point. The whole build up was a perfect counter attack and i have no idea how anyone can call it overreaching. Eriksen had to first time it with the outside of his weak foot to even get it to Kane. It was brilliant and for a second showed us what we have missed from peak Eriksen.

You rarely see goals as good as that, perfect from the front 3 and you show that when you want to teach kids about counter attacking football.

The only reason people are trying to undermine the goal is because Eriksen was involved. I don’t know if it’s sad or hilarious to see people jumping through hoops to not talk about it. Maybe a bit of both...

Yeah it was superb counter attacking play no doubt about that, I wouldn't say it's that rare however when we produced similarly brilliant counter attacking play to score against Palace and Leicester. I just disagree with the notion that people would be creaming their pants if it was anybody else involved other than Eriksen, I think that is a big exaggeration at best to try and justify this idea that he's the only player in our team who can string a pass together, I don't believe that to be the case.

 

[Derp]

Yeah it was superb counter attacking play no doubt about that, I wouldn't say it's that rare however when we produced similarly brilliant counter attacking play to score against Palace and Leicester. I just disagree with the notion that people would be creaming their pants if it was anybody else involved other than Eriksen, I think that is a big exaggeration at best to try and justify this idea that he's the only player in our team who can string a pass together, I don't believe that to be the case.

Well people sure did cream their pants over those goals. Lol that you can’t see the difference. No one tried to put those goals down, like you are doing. You just popped in here to tell us that it wasn’t as good as we think. I wonder why i didn’t see you doing that with the other goals ?

No one is saying that Eriksen is the only one who can string a pass together, that’s bollocks and a strawman. What i’m laughing about is people trying to do everything they can to not give Eriksen credit for his contribution to a great goal.

 

[wrd]

Well people sure did cream their pants over those goals. Lol that you can’t see the difference. No one tried to put those goals down, like you are doing. You just popped in here to tell us that it wasn’t as good as we think. I wonder why i didn’t see you doing that with the other goals ?

No one is saying that Eriksen is the only one who can string a pass together, that’s bollocks and a strawman. What i’m laughing about is people trying to do everything they can to not give Eriksen credit for his contribution to a great goal.

Probably because nobody was speaking about those goals saying "if so and so did this then everybody would cream their pants" or "I bet nobody is going to give them the credit they deserve"

 

[colfin22]

So no mention of the rumours about our squad going round on the old interwebs? I was sent a message, I don't want to post it if it's not being talked about

 

[buckley]

Myself for one have been one of Eriksen's biggest critics but if he was to play like he did on Saturday it would soon shut up the likes of me and I say he played well with commitment also and good on him .

 

[Derp]

Probably because nobody was speaking about those goals saying "if so and so did this then everybody would cream their pants" or "I bet nobody is going to give them the credit they deserve"

No one said that because they actually got credit for what they did and no one tried to undermine their contribution. You didn’t see people like you in those other threads. It’s not surprising you are trying to undermine Eriksens contribution to the goal. Still laughable though...

 

[Gb160]

So no mention of the rumours about our squad going round on the old interwebs? I was sent a message, I don't want to post it if it's not being talked about

Does it involve a love triangle?

 

[wrd]

No one said that because they actually got credit for what they did and no one tried to undermine their contribution. You didn’t see people like you in those other threads. It’s not surprising you are trying to undermine Eriksens contribution to the goal. Still laughable though...

You seem to think I have some massive agenda against Eriksen, I was one of the first people to post after the game to say he greatly improved, I just felt you were overstating the assist is all, I'm not trying to undermine Eriksen, I'm happy with his contribution against Southampton, it was a step in the right direction.

 

[Wick3d]

I always thought that given his obvious talent, if it was even coupled with half the tenacity that someone like Lamela possesses he would be truly world class. He just strikes me as such a passive footballer, easy to bully, and never one to get stuck in. These traits are more noticeable in this league due to its increased physical nature, I suspect in Spain or France he might be seen as a better player.

 

[ajspurs]

The only thing that annoys me about Eriksen, is that he pulls out of every challenge possible. Too scared about injury.
If he got this sorted, he WOULD be world class.

True but if you look on the flip side, how often is Eriksen injured? Barely ever, at least we can more or less get him on the pitch every week and he still often positively effects our game in a major way. I know it's not as black and white as saying he avoids injury because he pulls out of certain challenges or that it's the perfect excuse but it's not too far fetched to suggest his way of playing aids injury prevention.

I'd personally rather see him have a bit more urgency in receiving the ball and trying to orchestrate things but I'm past the point in thinking about what more he could do and I'm happy with what he does do.

In saying that I don't think he's been that great of recent, personally, including on Saturday. That's because I know just how much more he can bring though. At this moment in time I don't feel it's a guarantee that we'd play any worse without him in the side and that's something I never would have felt I could previously say.

 

[Derp]

I just felt you were overstating the assist is all, I'm not trying to undermine Eriksen

We are going in circles, my comment was only meant to poke fun at people trying to downplay and not mention anything good Eriksen does. People are clearly going out of their way to not mention it.

But i still find it hilarious that you can’t see that you saying “he played the ball across the 18 yard box and he also played it behind Kane” is clearly downplaying the assist. If someone didn’t watch it they would think it was a simple pass played way behind Kane. Almost like Eriksen made it harder for Kane, even though in reality the pass was hard to pull off.

As i said, you don’t see people doing that to our other goals.

 

[wrd]

We are going in circles, my comment was only meant to poke fun at people trying to downplay and not mention anything good Eriksen does. People are clearly going out of their way to not mention it.

But i still find it hilarious that you can’t see that you saying “he played the ball across the 18 yard box and he also played it behind Kane” is clearly downplaying the assist. If someone didn’t watch it they would think it was a simple pass played way behind Kane. Almost like Eriksen made it harder for Kane, even though in reality the pass was hard to pull off.

As i said, you don’t see people doing that to our other goals.

This is my point, I've said I'm not trying to undermine Eriksen overall nor his contribution in both our goals but I'm fully aware that I downplayed that specific pass which comes with the territory of claiming that an assist was being overstated, so frankly I don't see how you can say I'm not seeing it or find it hilarious because not once have I said that I'm not downplaying the assist, I'm fully aware of what I said. It wasn't a terrible ball by any means, he found his man with a good ball in a fast move, we scored but I just felt let's calm down before calling half the forum out because they're not waxing lyrical about it and if you hadn't have made that comment then I'd have never mentioned it whatsoever.

 

[colfin22]

Does it involve a love triangle?

Yep exactly that

 

[rez9000]

Yep exactly that

Well to be fair, chap - if we don’t know what the rumours are, we can’t really talk about them, right?

Come on, fess up - lets have the juicies (Just don’t label it ‘ITK’)

 

[Ronwol196061]

So let’s get this right.
In league,
Turned the game when he came on against Aston Villa, we struggled badly without him.
Didn’t play well at Man City (who did),
Didn’t start against Newcastle, we struggled badly without him, and then he created our best chances when he did come on.
Played full game and Scored at Arsenal, and had decent game
Played full game against Palace in good team performance, and he was integral in that.
Came on for last 10 mins at Leicester.

To me it looks like an obvious pattern, even this season, when he is on the pitch, we are significantly better than when he is not. Doesn’t look like he has downed tools at all. He has been booked more times this season than in whole of last, as he seems to be tackling a lot more, as well as covering most ground, as he always does.

So now a penalty which was hit in the corner was saved, not missed, saved, so what, it happens, at least was decent penalty, Moura missed the target.

And if he wants to leave for nothing, good luck to him, it is his right, we would have binned him off years ago if he wasn’t along with Kane the most important player in our team, and has from rumours been priced out a move.

And you lot turn on him just like that, because the club fucked up by not offering him better deal years ago, and allowed him to get in to last 2 years of his contract.
Totally fickle.

Yes Eriksen has been a key part of our creativity in the team because he has been the only creative player in the team.
There are no others.
We get some nice touches by some players but we have always for the longest time not bothered buying any other creative players. So Eriksen is it.
It's crazy.

 

[aussiespursguy]

Yep exactly that

Been there done that in another thread. No point bringing up baseless bullshit here as well. It's been done to death.

Let it go.

 

[Hakkz]

Lol now he did the same as Jan. Posted a training pic of them together. They know.

 

[SpursD22]

bUt hE dOeSn’T cArE

 

[Deleted member 29446]

bUt hE dOeSn’T cArE

winnered please!