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Christian Eriksen

SugarRay

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Foot like a traction engine.

Those finishes were an absolute piss take. Still a massively underrated player in the world of Coutinhos but that's good for us.

I had people on my football WhatsApp group saying they didn’t realise how good Eriksen is after last night. It’s amusing. I blame the computer games like FIFA and the emphasis on soccer free styling that the yoots of today seem obsessed by. It’s all about what you look like as opposed to any end product. Eriksen is so much better than Coutinho it’s laughable really!
 

CrazyConrad

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He's the main man and by far their best player. Instead of him passing to dele and kane, everyone is passing it to him in and around the box. He's also a great finisher when given the chance, but has less of those at club level because he passes so much.
Hareide (Danish coach) spent some time with Poch on how to get the best out of him on the national team also..
 

montylynch

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Jun 23, 2005
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Its probably because he's not plastered all over every paper with the latest squeeze on his arm doing silly two fingered signals to his followers.....i'm more than happy for people not to know how good he is.

Let them concentrate on Sanchez and his dogs, Neymar and his birds and Pogba and his hair. That's all the kids want.
 

Dharmabum

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It's really good news for us. If he hadn't made it to the WC, he may have been anxious to play on a higher stage at club level in the knowledge he can't do it with his NT. Now he's leading his country to the WC as a national hero.

Yes and no. If Eriksen has a brilliant WC then the "big" clubs - thouse under pressure to sing high profile players - will be even more eager to sign him. His price sure will increase too and Levy, naturally, won't be willing to sell but ... money talks, and so do greedy agents.
 

JimmyG2

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The Irish have nearly always taken that approach. Same with the Swedes and seeing it lately with Iceland and the like too.

It’s negative, it’s plays to their strengths and most important of all, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it! The majority might not enjoy it but who really cares? More than one way to skin a cat and there’s no rule in the book that says football has to be played in any particular style.

Only thing more grating than those who talk about nonsense like anti-football is the subject of playing the game ‘the right way’
First thing any successful team needs is to be solid. The rest comes after.

The majority!
 

TottenhamLegend

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Is there currently anyone younger than Eriksen with more international caps? 75 caps at 25 years old is incredibly impressive!

Neymar has a handful more, but is very slightly older.
 

Dharmabum

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That little nation has produced some notable talent in the last few decades.

The Laudrups, Schmeichel and now Eriksen. Not bad from a population of a few million.

And you may add Allan Simonsen, Preben Elkjær Larsen,Frank Arnsen and even Morten Olsen, Ulrik le Fever, Henning Jensen.
PS! In the 1986 WC they were easily among the best and entertaining teams...and yet lost 1-5 to Spain, and thus got knocked out - in a game Danmark dominated, until Spain got their 1-1 equaliser from a terrible Danish back pass...
 

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Unfortunately last night has elevated him into another stratosphere in terms of his profile - no doubt Madrid will now be after Poch, Kane, Dele and Eriksen. But what a player, just beautiful to watch.
 

chinaman

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Unfortunately last night has elevated him into another stratosphere in terms of his profile - no doubt Madrid will now be after Poch, Kane, Dele and Eriksen. But what a player, just beautiful to watch.

Levy will be rubbing his hands in glee. 1 billion pounds coming.:)
 

Dharmabum

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Unfortunately last night has elevated him into another stratosphere in terms of his profile - no doubt Madrid will now be after Poch, Kane, Dele and Eriksen. But what a player, just beautiful to watch.

Let them have Morgan Kane instead :cool:

 

mattie g

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Its probably because he's not plastered all over every paper with the latest squeeze on his arm doing silly two fingered signals to his followers.....i'm more than happy for people not to know how good he is.

Let them concentrate on Sanchez and his dogs, Neymar and his birds and Pogba and his hair. That's all the kids want.

And Dele hanging out at the MTV Music Awards or some other vapid shit.
 

mattie g

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Unfortunately last night has elevated him into another stratosphere in terms of his profile - no doubt Madrid will now be after Poch, Kane, Dele and Eriksen. But what a player, just beautiful to watch.

Why "unfortunately?"
 

Pellshek

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It's pretty amazing that we were Eriksen's only serious suitors back when he was available for €12.5m. It's not as if he was unknown - he'd been on every European scout's radar since he was a junior.

I suspect the answer may be that it wasn't obvious before now what an incredible athlete he'd become. The skill was always there, but maybe clubs were concerned he didn't have the pace or physique to really impose himself. As it turns out, his fitness has picked up as he's grown into his adult body, and along with it his pace. So now you get the technique, but also the engine, the upper body strength and more than adequate pace. Boom. £100m player.
 

Dougal

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I couldn't give a toss about international football, but I'm empathetic enough to understand how it could make you feel passionately that you must defend your country from criticism...

However, this Ireland side plays dire stuff and I blame O'Neil for that. Sure you don't have the resources of an England. But you've got vastly more than Iceland and Ulster so I suggest it's not entirely through necessity. Bad night for you tonight but maybe it will be a first step to getting the old Ireland back.

It's been going on longer than O'Neill. Trappatoni got the same grief not so long ago. The likes of Iceland and the North have had purple patches of late but they mirror the ones we had, a golden generation which were the exceptions to the rule. No doubt another small nation will pop up soon as well. But sustained success is a different story.

We've been to 3 World Cups (90, 94 and 02) and 3 Euros (88, 12, 16). We've had a handful of good results at those but even then we can only really enjoy the solitary goals of Houghton (England 88/Italy 94), Whelan (Russia 88), Sheedy (England 90 again, soz/not soz), Quinn (Netherlands 90), Aldridge (Mexico 94), Holland (Cameroon 02), Keane (Germany 02/Spain 02), St Ledger (Croatia 12), Hoolahan (Sweden 16), Brady (Italy 16/France 16). Those single goals aside we had a 3-0 to Saudi Arabia and the 5-4 penalties win over Romania.

More often than not we suffer playoff heartache which we are lucky to get to considering for the last couple of decades we were pretty much a sustained 3rd seed, 4th now, trying everything to scrape a 2nd place and upset someone who thought they had (and actually had because of the seedings) more right than us. We should sit on the outskirts but time and again we sneak in to the party. This is, and has been, an over-performing country and all we ever hope to do is get there and have a good time. We we go, we do, no matter the result and for all the bollockses saying we are no loss to a major tournament, you're living in a dream world, where the World Cup is Football's very own version of the Harlem Globe Trotters. Instead it is where many big names and big teams go to die while the true stars rise to the occasion, sometimes only for the tournament, and fade again. The World Cup has always been about the unique for me. The stories, the moments, the characters, because that is the only thing you can guarantee to turn up. And a lot of the time they are provided by nations the Footballing Snobbery spend most of the time looking down on.

We should have bloody won that group too :(
 
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