Christian Eriksen image 14

Christian Eriksen Denmark flag

2022-23 Performances


View full 2022-23 profile

6.0 Season Average Rating
Appearances
44
Goals
2
Assists
10
Yellow cards
3
Status
Not open for further replies.

RuudtheRed

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Jun 25, 2020
Messages
283
Genuinely poor yesterday. We often praise his creativity, but yesterday he was just a slow plodding midfielder who looked about 59 years old. The problem is our CM alternatives aren't usually better than him on his poor days.
 

jasveron

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Sep 16, 2022
Messages
49
A very poor performance. However, the lack of movement from our attackers didn't help at all. It was a diabolical performance from the entire team. Some people criticized him for hiding, I disagreed - he never hid. He just wasn't influential at all. I was counting on him to pick out some good passes, but he looked out of ideas about what to do.
 

Lyng

Full Member
Joined
Jun 1, 2012
Messages
4,885
Location
Denmark
A good squad player for depth at this point in his career, but certainly not reliable to carry a meaningful league or CL run next year though.
True. He is leagues better than the other alternatives we have right now but we desperately need to upgrade.
Eriksen is a fantastic squad option to have and can cover for both Bruno and a new CM signing. But he shouldnt be in the first eleven.
 

Rajma

Full Member
Joined
Sep 8, 2012
Messages
8,571
Location
Lithuania
It absolutely kills us that not a single midfielder in our squad can dribble a fecking ball. Bruno, Eriksen, Casemiro is as bad of a dribbling midfield 3 as you'll ever find.
I have been on this train since ETH first introduced this midfield. We’re very lightweight, with no agility, dribbling and ball shielding capacity.
 

Marcelinho87

Full Member
Joined
Aug 4, 2010
Messages
7,201
Location
Barnsley
We can't pinpoint or pull down one player, it's a collective and it's seeping through the team like a bad virus.

He hasn't been great lately but what is he to do? The only movement up top lately is Antony who can't hit a barn door.
 

Bestietom

Full Member
Joined
Dec 16, 2013
Messages
8,021
Location
Ireland
Yes, it's a colective issue that we have, but we really need 2 lung bursting midfielders this summer. We don't have a midfield with the stamina to keep going and fighting for the full 90 + minutes.
Casemiro and Eriksen fade away in second half of games. We need young legs and this is where we are losing out in games.
 

Offside

Euro 2016 sweepstake winner
Joined
Jun 9, 2012
Messages
26,627
Location
London
He’s a decent squad player on a free who we’ve had to rely on more as we failed to get our midfield target last summer. Typical stuff from us under these incompetent owners.
 

Zico1982

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Sep 18, 2022
Messages
110
Eriksen did not fade away yesterday. He was sub par from about 20 minutes into the game. He has so much technique that he can disguise most of his misgivings but a neat pass here and there does not make a good game. He did make interceptions and a block yesterday. Nice, but that is not what he is called on the pitch to do. His job is to control the pace and play penetrating passes. Yesterday was a terrible game for him. Eriksen is absolutely useless unless the attacking players makes the right runs. Apart from the first 20 or so minutes noone did. Case and Eriksen and sometimes Shaw had to stop and play the ball sidewards or back. Why the feck is noone moving?
 
Last edited:

Raoul

Admin
Staff
Joined
Aug 14, 1999
Messages
129,966
Location
Hollywood CA
Eriksen did not fade away yesterday. He was sub par 3 from about 20 minutes into the game. He has so much technique that he can disguise most of his misgivings but a neat pass here and there does not make a good game. He did make interceptions and a block yesterday. Nice, but that is not what he is called on the pitch to do. His job is to control the pace and play penetrating passes. Yesterday was a terrible game for him. Eriksen is absolutely useless unless the attacking players makes the right runs. Apart from the first 20 or so minutes noone did. Case and Eriksen and sometimes Shaw had to stop and play the ball sidewards or back. Why the feck is noone moving?
Agreed. There's little for him to do with no viable targets in the box, which is made harder with when Martial and WW are playing. If Rashford was upfront, it would be easier for Ericksen to get the into the box and actually have someone do something with it.
 

Valencia Shin Crosses

Full Member
Joined
Sep 30, 2015
Messages
6,503
Location
"Martial...He's isolated Skrtel here..."
I have been on this train since ETH first introduced this midfield. We’re very lightweight, with no agility, dribbling and ball shielding capacity.
As good as Bruno has been (and I think he's been fantastic this year), it's his biggest weakness as a player and it hurts us in certain areas. He's a terrible dribbler, which means that we have to find a deeper player that can fill that role. But that's not an easy profile to find in modern football. Ironically a fit Pogba is the ideal player for it if I'm honest.
 

Wing Attack Plan R

Full Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2019
Messages
10,069
Location
El Pueblo de la Reyna de los Angeles
He's the new version of Juan Mata: really clever player, can unlock defenses with a lethal pass, but just not ticking all the boxes. He's not a dominant player and needs some water carriers around him to do the dirty work and create space for him. I like Eriksen and think we're better with him in the team, but I also felt the same way about Mata.
 

Zico1982

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Sep 18, 2022
Messages
110
Lots of things are going wrong at the moment. Eriksen ( and Bruno) misses an in form Casemiro to do more of the dirty work and Martinez to up the tempo playing out from defense. These are the things that gives him that extra split second on the ball. He also misses Rashfords runs as CF, Luke Shaws overlaps on the left and a player like Garnacho who runs deep. Right now his options are extremely limited making it easy for the opposition to cover his passing lines. Right now he is robbed of his strengths and left to do a lot of defensive work. That will never work. Fred and Sabitzer are way better at that.
 

-Supreme-

Full Member
Joined
Feb 2, 2018
Messages
2,438
Not sure what he offers to the team anymore, has he won a single challenge or tackle? His passing is meant to be his strength but he just doesn’t offer us enough to compensate for his weaknesses.
 

Valencia Shin Crosses

Full Member
Joined
Sep 30, 2015
Messages
6,503
Location
"Martial...He's isolated Skrtel here..."
Not sure what he offers to the team anymore, has he won a single challenge or tackle? His passing is meant to be his strength but he just doesn’t offer us enough to compensate for his weaknesses.
His defensive stats are comically bad. But he shouldn’t ever be asked to be a consistent starter. It’s why we need midfielders badly this summer. Eriksen ideally is a sub piece that plays against lesser sides occasionally and is a nice piece to help control games
 

Cassidy

No longer at risk of being mistaken for a Scouser
Joined
Oct 2, 2013
Messages
31,029
Not sure what he offers to the team anymore, has he won a single challenge or tackle? His passing is meant to be his strength but he just doesn’t offer us enough to compensate for his weaknesses.
Hes in poor form but pre injury he was one of the top assisters in the league. Personally I think hes too weak to play in our midfield as a regular starter
 

Top

twitter thread suggester
Joined
Oct 16, 2005
Messages
10,712
Location
Denmark
Painfully need an upgrade on him.
His tackling is so weak.
 

Abraxas

Full Member
Joined
Mar 6, 2021
Messages
6,023
He's fading incredibly badly in the second half of games. Maybe it even starts earlier than that. It's a big problem, you need players to at least make 60 mins.
 

Poborsky's hair

Full Member
Joined
Oct 19, 2020
Messages
1,720
Supports
Bohemians 1905
Quite mental this thread is so quiet again. He's just absolutely not good enough. Can't win the ball, is weak as piss in every challenge, passes back a lot because he can't play the game in tempo. Not talking about his nonexistent dribbling skills and that he's generally gassed after 20 minutes.

We are fecked if Ten Haag thinks he should play this many games. He was a great bargain but probably even worse than Matic who hempered our play after his purple patch for the next 2 seasons being always in contention. He should just be an option for the last 15 minutes if we are chasing the goal but he can't control the play as he just can't escape press very well with no dribbling ability like Ten Haag wishes and his ball playing ability is extremely overstated. He showed big fat Zero in the last 10 games in that regard too.

I am sure ETH will feck up again playing him in the FA cup final too like he did against Sevilla, instead of a truly big game player Fred.
 

Berbasbullet

Too Boring For A Funny Tagline
Joined
Nov 3, 2011
Messages
20,031
Hasn't bounced back from injury well at all, would like to see him rotated with another next season.
 

Glorio

Full Member
Joined
Jun 16, 2020
Messages
4,491
Not sure I've ever seen Eriksen win a 50/50 - even in his best games
 

amolbhatia50k

Sneaky bum time - Vaccination status: dozed off
Joined
Nov 8, 2002
Messages
95,336
Location
india
He’s been a great addition but he’s got nothing about him physically now and should be our second choice 8 next season.

Not sure I've ever seen Eriksen win a 50/50 - even in his best games
It sticks out like a sore thump when he isn’t playing well overall. There was this one moment where he shirked a challenge and the opponent went in full bloodied and things like allow the team to be pushed back and bullied. I really wish he wouldn’t be so 3rd gear when it comes to competing off the ball.
 

DWelbz19

Correctly predicted Portugal to win Euro 2016
Joined
Oct 31, 2012
Messages
33,745
Quite mental this thread is so quiet again. He's just absolutely not good enough. Can't win the ball, is weak as piss in every challenge, passes back a lot because he can't play the game in tempo. Not talking about his nonexistent dribbling skills and that he's generally gassed after 20 minutes.
Like someone said - it is the new Juan Mata thread. Eriksen is a lovely guy with half decent technical ability. Nobody really wants to shit on him even when he’s not good enough
 

Brophs

The One and Only
Joined
Nov 28, 2006
Messages
50,279
No goals or assists since he came back, according to FBRef. He's a nice footballer, but you'd like to see us with a bit more productivity in midfield.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.