Eriksens positives (possession, assists, goals) come with a price.
Like I said before the game I knew Poch was going to play a weak left side and it cost us.
And once again we were easy to figure out manager wise as its obvious where you can hurt us. You bypass the middle (Kane, Alli, Dier) and take Dier, Wanyama or Dembele out of the game as down our wings you will virtually go unchallenged until you draw out one of the covering two or Rose. It's just way to easy to work us out. Will Poch finally close these avenues? Wasn't Townsend etc flouncing down these avenues obvious enough for him?
Wanyama saw how much work he had to do for others who can't handle their own patch. He was almost overrun because Eriksen was about as effective as a wet paper bag stopping average players from waltzing down his wing.
We need more power and pace there.
It was obvious Janssen is going to be way more of a pain in the arse to deal with than Eriksen. And he has been scoring so much at the end of last season. Why stunt or slow down Janssens momentum? Eriksen was diabolical at the end of last season. He was poor in preseason.
Eriksen's lack of presence has been starving Kane recently. If we are going to have a gap in the midfield, then create a proper gap and have the positive of another striker on the pitch elsewhere.
Sometimes having Lamela or Eriksen covering a part of the pitch is a false positive. Our midfiwld will watch players running off the ball when the guy in possession is a danger with Eriksen skipping next to him.
Gibbsy you suck!
I felt bad for Wanyama. Thank god he did as much as he did. With a weaker player there dealing with whatever Alli and Eriksen were "doing"???, it could have been another Newcastle.
Right now we have a pace crisis in the final third. Eriksen is the slowest. He's lost any ability to hold up the ball and make it stick/bring Kane into the game.
Saying that, he'll score or assist soon and everything will be forgotten and our soft underbelly will remain.
It's frustrating because we all know what Eriksen can do. IMO it's Poch who needs to take some of the blame for his/our terrible form. It's obvious to me Eriksen should not be keep playing on that position.
If played, he should be central. IMO a simple switch to the middle of the three would do wonders for Eriksen and everyone around him. I'd love to see this in the CL:
------------------Kane------------------
----Alli-------Eriksen----Dembele---
IMO to get the best out of Lamela or Eriksen, one has to make way. Having the two softens us up too much.
IMO Wanyama has done enough to keep his place. Dembele further forward will obviously solve our issue of the ball sticking. And Janssen or Eriksen in the middle will give us goals/assists.
We have much better options than Poch's slow approach. So right now my frustration is not so much with Eriksen and why he's so open. I'm wondering why Poch would keep the same wings that collapsed at the end of the season? Why the same approach play that effected Kane?
Our clean sheets went out the window with this approach.
