You still don't understand pressing, do you? Eriksen and Lamela liabilities off the ball? They're both some of our strongest runners
Eriksen and Lamela are nailed on class players. They have the most natural talent IMO. I'm not about to claim they are good at pressing compared to Alli.
If there is a weak link off the ball it's them, usually resulting in Rose and Walker having to do too much compared to what Jan and Toby have to deal with (which is understandable).
Lamela being better at is is a very new thing, only two months of improvement. If you want to hang your hook on a few months of improved form tracking, then I don't think you have a very solid opinion.
If pushed, I'd rather see Dembele or Alli in front of Walker instead of Lamela. Eriksen I would rather play in the middle for the sake of Rose. Most of Eriksen's magic this season has been from set pieces where he is uncontested. IMO he should be doing WAY MORE in terms of goals from open play with the skill set he has. And being surrounded by Alli, Dembele and Kane will help his natural game centrally.
I think we saw how much we can dominate without Lamela. In fact, the previous game is proof positive that i was correct to think our whole team is better if we limit the slight players in the squad.
Having more physical players like Alli and Dembele in and around Eriksen worked wonders.
Why would you claim I don't understand pressing, a game after this game in particular? I said before the game that Lamela out would probably result in Alli or Dembele going further forward, so it would test my opinion of having more steel in the final third.
I don't mind if we carry on playing Lamela and Eriksen as right and left sided midfielders. But we have a reference point regarding having someone better at pressing. We played an alternative to Lamela and we won 4-1.