Christian Eriksen

[Whiffler]

From The Grauniad:

5) Chelsea missed a trick with Eriksen
.....Chelsea’s thinking was influenced by the fact that they already had Josh McEachran, who was a year younger and played in a similar position. .....

Who is now at Brentford, having been frozen out by AVB according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McEachran

 

[Raziel]

Carrick, Modric, Berbatov, Eriksen, all players we took calculated risks on when bigger clubs didn't.

There is a touch more arrogance creeping into Eriksen's game, and I think it helps him.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Who is now at Brentford, having been frozen out by AVB according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McEachran

He is another of their youth player shype duo because they won the youth comps but never taught how to play mans football

He spent too long there and should have left much earlier to develop

 

[awesome dawson]

After naming his first goal versus Swansea as the goal of the week, I heard a journo on the Game podcast say, Eriksen's left foot is better than most players right foot. True dat.

 

[SteveAWOL]

https://twitter.com/x/status/980474918738345985

https://twitter.com/x/status/980472443646210048

https://twitter.com/x/status/980472733514567681

https://twitter.com/x/status/980494549482164226

 

[Raziel]

Another brilliant game, goal was insane, pass to release Son was obscene.

 

[Finney Is Back]

We are absolutely blessed to have this man at our club.... He is a phenomenal player, up there with the best I have seen in my many years of supporting the club.

 

[Jurgen the German]

Our most irreplacable player after Kane. Scores, creates chances and covers more ground than any other player in the side.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Our most irreplacable player after Kane. Scores, creates chances and covers more ground than any other player in the side.

Looks more irreplaceable than Kane judging by the results when either are out

 

[glasgowspur]

Still can't believe that first goal, almost missed it as I looked away in frustration. Thought it was going yards over!
Courtious would have saved it, aye right, if he was in goal with caberello they might have had a chance.

 

[metalgear]

was keeper at fault for his goal. i get it that it had serious dip but PL keepers aren't supposed to be mersmerized by football more than us!
it was in the center of goal, loris would have put his hands there just to be safe.

 

[Raziel]

was keeper at fault for his goal. i get it that it had serious dip but PL keepers aren't supposed to be mersmerized by football more than us!
it was in the center of goal, loris would have put his hands there just to be safe.

He never picked the flight of the ball ..

What makes the goal more impressive is Eriksen's interview after, his first shot was strait at the keeper and the keeper almost fudged it up, Eriksen realized he wasn't picking the flight, so he went for it a second time, this time with the swerve and dip ..

 

[Spur of the moment]

was keeper at fault for his goal. i get it that it had serious dip but PL keepers aren't supposed to be mersmerized by football more than us!
it was in the center of goal, loris would have put his hands there just to be safe.

Point is he was off his line as you would mostly expect all keepers to have been from that distance. Maybe he miscalculated the flight of the ball and should have started back tracking earlier but even if he had the chances are he still would not have got back in time. It was the freakishness of the arc of the flight that did for him and would almost certainly have done for Courtois too.

 

[braineclipse]

Wonderful goal and another very good performance.

 

[Kandi1977]

Cortois is brick at long range shots. Wouldn't be anywhere near saving that screamer.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Cortois is brick at long range shots. Wouldn't be anywhere near saving that screamer.

He is woefully bad at them
He is massively over rated IMO

 

[Gazza]

No keeper would get close to that, stood that far out. The pace and the angle of the last minute trajectory of the dip killed Willy.

The ball moved initially, forcing the keeper to shift his body; it would have been impossible to recover the position and then move to make a save with the pace of that peach of a shot.

 

[Rorschach]

No keeper would get close to that, stood that far out. The pace and the angle of the last minute trajectory of the dip killed Willy.

The ball moved initially, forcing the keeper to shift his body; it would have been impossible to recover the position and then move to make a save with the pace of that peach of a shot.

I agree. It looks bad in slow motion for the goalie but the ball came down dramatically from quite a height to dip right under the crossbar. A dream goal for Spurs in every sense and amazingly I'm not even sure if that was my favourite goal in the match!

 

[Rorschach]

I just watched it back a few times and he hit it almost side footed. I can't do that technique myself but there is a kid on my team can hit it like that, and the ball hardly spins. The ball looks like it is going one way but veers back and ends up wrong footing goalies all the time. The lighter balls must help too. Knuckle ball the F2 boys call it I think (according to my youngest lad).

 

[Raziel]

I just watched it back a few times and he hit it almost side footed. I can't do that technique myself but there is a kid on my team can hit it like that, and the ball hardly spins. The ball looks like it is going one way but veers back and ends up wrong footing goalies all the time. The lighter balls must help too. Knuckle ball the F2 boys call it I think (according to my youngest lad).

Yep, NBC pitch side interview post match they try to get him to describe the technique, he says a little.

The running narrative is similar to how all the players say Dembele is a beast in training, they all say Eriksen hits the craziest shots in training ...