Players lose that ability as soon as they step on the pitch for us it seems.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Very poor.
Terrible game. Gave away the ball way too much ultimately dooming us from the get go.
He's had some pretty shit performances lately. He's supposed to be calm yet he tends to give the ball away cheaply quite often.
He's had some pretty shit performances lately. He's supposed to be calm yet he tends to give the ball away cheaply quite often.
I thought he was good against West Ham, really disagreed with people who thought he was bad.
But he was really bad today. Not sure i have seen him have such a bad first touch and his passing was way off.
But it was a weird sub. We should have moved Eriksen closer to goal, because we only needed one good moment for a goal and it was just weird he was subbed when Maguire was put on as a striker and we decided to play hoofball.
Imo we should have kept the formation, put Eriksen at CAM and Fred in at CM, Rashford on the left and then Maguire as striker in the last minutes.
But he was really bad today. Not sure i have seen him have such a bad first touch and his passing was way off.
But it was a weird sub. We should have moved Eriksen closer to goal, because we only needed one good moment for a goal and it was just weird he was subbed when Maguire was put on as a striker and we decided to play hoofball.
Imo we should have kept the formation, put Eriksen at CAM and Fred in at CM, Rashford on the left and then Maguire as striker in the last minutes.
Has specific qualities but really not all that, really need an upgrade.
His set pieces have also been quite mediocre for us.
My Spurs mate told me when we signed him that he hits the first man 90% of the time.
Eriksen was done. His issues weren't only on the ball but off ball as well. People were casually going past him and couldn't get a foot in anything. He had to come off.
I'll believe this given this is what exactly has been happening with us.
With hindsight should have not started especially as Bruno is out for Sunday. Fred may have done bettrr with his energy. Hindsight though...
Terrible.
So so slow these days. Players just jog past him. When hes playing at his best he makes it worth it but these games, yikes.
He wasn't great. Eriksen is clearly a good player but I don't think he's at his best in that withdrawn position. I would hope we sign somebody else to play there next season and let Eriksen play more advanced or have the option to rotate him more often.
Every time he has a bad game 'he's not all that' posts appear right away.
Loose with the ball and didn't deal well with physicality tonight. Possibly should have started from the bench after how much work he did against West Ham.
I've said it many times now he isn't dynamic enough to play as a CM. It's like having a 45 year old Scholes out there. Sure he can still play great passes when afforded time and space but in a physical game like today he's a liability just as he was against City.
I've always felt what held him back even in his prime was his inability to evade the press either with a dribble or having the strength to hold off challenges. That's only made far more obvious now.
He's not a CM. He prefers making long passes or decisive passes and isn't one to make hold the ball and make many short passes that lead to controlling of the game. Prior to Casemiro entering the starting lineup we could barely string meaningful possession together and Eriksen was a part of the issue even though Mctominay was made the sole scapegoat.
Hopefully him playing there is because he's our best option atm but long term we need a proper No.8, possibly even two of them.
I've always felt what held him back even in his prime was his inability to evade the press either with a dribble or having the strength to hold off challenges. That's only made far more obvious now.
He's not a CM. He prefers making long passes or decisive passes and isn't one to make hold the ball and make many short passes that lead to controlling of the game. Prior to Casemiro entering the starting lineup we could barely string meaningful possession together and Eriksen was a part of the issue even though Mctominay was made the sole scapegoat.
Hopefully him playing there is because he's our best option atm but long term we need a proper No.8, possibly even two of them.
Worst player on the pitch. Gave the ball away too much and was weak on it.
Almost like the “bad games” are happening more and more frequently…
Give him a break ffs
Can't blame him today even if I'm not a big fan of him in a deep role, he's being run into the ground.
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Head in the sand. No one is saying he's bad but he's been magnified here to some level he isn't at.
You aren't winning the war with these kind of players in midfield.
It wasn’t a good idea in the context of the game. We still needed a goal. We brought on Harry Maguire and went with hoofball and crosses. Dalot just scored from an Eriksen corner and Rashford just scored from an Eriksen cross.
In those situations you keep players like Eriksen on because we only need one good ball in. Especially in a game where no one else could put a good cross in. Hindsight is 20/20 but we didn’t get any better after Eriksen came off.
There were more “bad games” early on in the season than most were willing to admit.
Overall he’s been a mixed bag. Some very good performances but probably a bigger number of average to poor ones.
Needs a break.
He was in the pitch for 70 minutes and didn't deliver a decent pass let alone a good ball while being poor at regaining the ball, something had to give.
We went long exactly because we couldn't create and Ten Hag rightly decided to bypass the midfield who were abysmal (Eriksen and DVB).
We didn't need Eriksen to deliver long balls in the box, plenty of players could do that but we at least needed for fight and running in midfield since we were getting outworked and overpowered in there.
He's playing too deep for his skill set.
Yep. There’s a lot to like about Eriksen, but there is fundamentally a reason he was a free transfer coming in from Brentford. He’ll work for this season but we need to obviously upgrade long term for the level we want to be at.
Hence all the ongoing chat linking us to players like De Jong and Bellingham. Eriksen will be great as a versatile sub but we do need to have a better first XI.
Yeah we definitely need an upgrade for the first XI to get where we want to be. Cracking signing on a free though.
United could be doing similar mistake to what Bruno became right after joining United. Being too much addicted to one player's genius is just recipe for a slow decline.
As for Eriksen, he'll be a good option for few years more. No bigger worries if we'll give him solid backup.
As for Eriksen, he'll be a good option for few years more. No bigger worries if we'll give him solid backup.
Nightmare of a performance. Should have been substituted at half time.
Pretty bad today. Seems to need a break. The negativity here is kind of strange though after a lot of really good performances.
Hasn't been the same since he's returned from illness.
I mean, Dalot scored directly from his lovely corner just one week ago
I don’t like the modern day scrutinising of players match by match, minute by minute, I can absolutely assure you all, especially away in Europe, you’d have been slating Scholes all the time for “getting ran past” etc. Hell SAF often preferred Nicky Butt to him in certain games, especially in Europe, due to just that.
It’s not healthy.
He hasnt been good. He's been overrated in his performances because posters are happy we finally have an extra, more offensive player back in the team instead of McTom and Fred. And obviously he has the ability to play passes much better than them. But he's been quite Bruno-ish in terms of trying things and not that many coming off and giving the ball away. He's also doing a very basic job of filling his position when we dont have the ball. No better than Pogba was doing it.
Eriksen was bad tonight. Really bad. It's a bit weird seing all these posts trying to claim he is always badthough. Especially since him, Case and Licha have been the most important players this season.
It's like our fans want certain players to fail.
It's like our fans want certain players to fail.
He looks tired. Needs a rest, I’m afraid.
Many CAF contributors appear to have no memory.
I remember Rio saying in an interview before he believes the reason Veron didn't work at united was possibly because we had Keane. Veron was a genius at starting games from deep etc but he wasn't getting the chance cause Keane was always wanting the ball.
I am thinking something similar could be happening with eriksen and Bruno. Eriksen is at his best further forward picking up the ball in the spaces he finds but he can't cause Bruno is there. Even today eriksen had kind of lost one of his options for a pass with Bruno playing as a "wideman". Might been better even eriksen playing to the right his deliveries for Ronaldo you'd expect would been a weapon.
I am thinking something similar could be happening with eriksen and Bruno. Eriksen is at his best further forward picking up the ball in the spaces he finds but he can't cause Bruno is there. Even today eriksen had kind of lost one of his options for a pass with Bruno playing as a "wideman". Might been better even eriksen playing to the right his deliveries for Ronaldo you'd expect would been a weapon.
I do think people jumped the gun a little bit after the first 5/6 games, claiming him to be something he hadn’t been. But I still think he’s been one of our better players overall. Due to the fact that Casemiro has only recently started playing, I’d say Eriksen has been the glue holding our midfield together, because the rest of it has been very poor.
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