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Probably wasting his career with us, drifts in and out of games through boredom or poor quality of the rest....we need to step up or he will fuck off soon.
Eriksen has clearly taken to the epl a helluva lot quicker than Lamela.......
It could, but what would be the point? Eriksen last season was better than Lamela this season. So, the point still stands.It could be argued this is effectively Erik's first season because he was injured most of last.
I'm having a long running argument with my housemate who's Chelsea over Eriksen and Willian. Am I being biased in thinking Eriksen is better?
I'm having a long running argument with my housemate who's Chelsea over Eriksen and Willian. Am I being biased in thinking Eriksen is better?
They're both totally different players though, Eriksen has a far better end product and scores and assists whilst Willian offers you more energy and tracks runners so it's difficult too compare.
Do you reckon? I can see the point that he is overshadowed by Hazard and Fabregas in terms of not being the fulcrum of creativity but he's not a defensive player, if he were that good he would be contributing a lot more. He's better at tracking players and doing a defined job for the team, but as in who's the better technical footballer surely you can compare them both as attacking midfielders? It's not as if I am comparing him to Matic or Mikel.
He is a defensive player, his stats back that up, it's a reason as to why Mourinho got rid of Mata (who is in the same mould as Eriksen incidentally) and why Willian is in the first team and starts more or less every match. If you watch him he works tirelessly, he never shirks his responsibilities and always covers his full back and he never stops running. Eriksen is a better techincal footballer no doubt but in terms of defensive responsibilities he isn't in the same league as Willian, he's just not built like that.
Having said that we are seeing some good signs from Eriksen, against Everton for example he worked, pressed and ran like I've never seen him work before and if he continues that he'll go up another level
Eriksen is no where near as good Mata.
I've been quite critical of him to be honest but these last few weeks I think he's shown his importance to us. Even though I would like for him to have more influence in our games I'm not sure he ever will to be honest, but if we can regularly get him in the right positions on the pitch he will get a lot of assists and goals for us.
He changed his technique on his corners/freekicks a bit yesterday too, he was clipping the balls in as opposed to whipping them. I think he can get more balls in the right area like that and we should have big enough players to take advantage.
I'm having a long running argument with my housemate who's Chelsea over Eriksen and Willian. Am I being biased in thinking Eriksen is better?
It could, but what would be the point? Eriksen last season was better than Lamela this season. So, the point still stands.