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Christian Eriksen

papaspur said:
Actually, there was the second attempt during a free-kick to roll it to Kane (or maybe it was someone else) which the opposition promptly snuffed out. Fool me twice...
Before Eriksen even took the free kick, I knew he was going to nudge it sideways, so the defending players in or near the wall would have anticipated it too. I like mixing it up every now and then but we need to avoid being too predictable.
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In the last 3-4 games, Eriksen and team has switched it up considerably, short corners, roll outs to someone else to hit, Wink's dink to Dele.

Eriksen's problem is ala Ronaldo, he goes for the most difficult type of freekick possible almost every time, and it hasn't been working lately. To my point above, he/team has added some variation lately.

But if you doubt the ability ->
 
Pirate55 said:
Think you may be on to something there @Bullet. I read somewhere that it is now over 500 days - think about that - 500 effing days dice Eriksen scored from a free kick. Please, please please can someone else have a go.

Same thing with corners. Apart from one variation against Stoke, his corners have just become irritatingly ineffective. All our players just bob up and down on the six yard box. The likelihiood of scoring from there is ridiculously small. Why don't our players start their run from the edge of the penalty area to give themselves a run at the ball? Verts, who isn't exactly bad in the air, hasn't scored for us for 2.5 years yet comes up for virtually every corner and free kick. Must be about 10 of those per game. You would think our analysts would work this out, no ?

Winks'' free kick against Everton was sublime. Someone else deserves a go here too.

While Eriksen's all round play has been excellent after a slow start, his dead ball striking and shooting remain extremely poor unfortunately.
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Is it actually the case that Vertonghen comes up for Corners and free kicks?.... I have noticed that Toby goes up and Jan stays back for our set pieces on many occasions (although I don't confess to watching this avidly enough to comment on whether it happens so for 'all' set pieces)?
 
Finney Is Back said:
Is it actually the case that Vertonghen comes up for Corners and free kicks?.... I have noticed that Toby goes up and Jan stays back for our set pieces on many occasions (although I don't confess to watching this avidly enough to comment on whether it happens so for 'all' set pieces)?
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Whether it's Toby, Jan or Eric or any permutation of the three it doesn't really matter, we just need to change our corner routine.

Except that's exactly what we have been doing in recent games. In fact it feels like we've tried more variations in the last few weeks than in the whole of the previous year. And we've already had one direct success as a result, that being Eriksen's outswinger to Kane on the edge of the D that he volleyed home for the second of his hat-trick against Stoke on February 26.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Whether it's Toby, Jan or Eric or any permutation of the three it doesn't really matter, we just need to change our corner routine.

Except that's exactly what we have been doing in recent games. In fact it feels like we've tried more variations in the last few weeks than in the whole of the previous year. And we've already had one direct success as a result, that being Eriksen's outswinger to Kane on the edge of the D that he volleyed home for the second of his hat-trick against Stoke on February 26.
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Is it possible that without the midweek games we now have more time to practice these things
 
Rorschach said:
More trophy talk. I'm hearing this so often now from every player. Good.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...tor-wanyama-tottenham-hotspur-millwall-fa-cup
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Backed it up today. Might have been difficult for a guaranteed first-team player to be benched, come on in a cup game against a lower league side and get his head into the game straight away, but he was at it from the off - orchestrating everything and running Millwall ragged.

He's usually like that, too. Even in his off-spells (and he has a few), no one can accuse him of not trying, because he is by far the hardest working attacking midfielder I've seen in my time watching us.

In terms of the trophy talk, talking and doing are two different things most of the time - I'm not worried about Eriksen not putting in the effort, but given that we were saying a lot of the same stuff prior to limply losing to Gent away, I do hope the lads keep showing that they want to win things on the pitch, not in the papers.
 
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eriksen's talent comes from some specially shaped thigh muscles....
 
@BBCMotD
Eriksen has scored 13 goals from outside the box since he joined Spurs in 2013-14 - more than any other Premier League player

@SkySportsStatto
Christian Eriksen has scored 10+ goals (all comps) for the 3rd time in 4 seasons at Tottenham #PL

@OMyles90
Five of Christian Eriksen's six Premier League goals this season have been scored with his left foot.
He's right footed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/843476102848958464
 
The pass to Son early in the game, then the dink over the top that Son called for and reacted slowly to, and then (I believe) their was a pass to Dele as well in the box. 3 insanely good passes.

Interesting in the two games Harry has been out, seem Eriksen has stepped up a little, scored the first goal in both instances.

@SteveAWOL stats are an interesting read ..
 
Raziel said:
The pass to Son early in the game, then the dink over the top that Son called for and reacted slowly to, and then (I believe) their was a pass to Dele as well in the box. 3 insanely good passes.

Interesting in the two games Harry has been out, seem Eriksen has stepped up a little, scored the first goal in both instances.

@SteveAWOL stats are an interesting read ..
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It occurred to me yesterday that he doesn't seem as dependent on harry and and Dele having good games as much he used too.
He seems much more comfortable in his role and ability.
 
glasgowspur said:
It occurred to me yesterday that he doesn't seem as dependent on harry and and Dele having good games as much he used too.
He seems much more comfortable in his role and ability.
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For a long time I have felt his issues have been psychological, and I wonder if he has taken steps to address that because mate, I agree 100% and the evidence is apparent.
 
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