Why the fuck would I compare him to wide left forwards?
Oh dear......you mean Eriksen that has been regularly deployed on the left side of an attacking midfield
I have never made out he's a "defensive" box to box midfielder. I've said that much of this season he's played as a left sided "8" in a CM3, (with Sissoko playing the right sided 8) and that any midfielder has some defensive obligations. His piers, or players playing similar remits most weeks are D Silva, B Silva, Kovacic, Barkley, Pogba. with whom he compares very favourably.
And right away you play down his defensive duties....and say he’s a left sided “8”. So he’s an attacking mid from the left side of our midfield. Yes....indeed, why oh why would you possibly compare him to other left sided AMs
So far he’s not a forward, not a playmaker, isn’t defensive, isn’t left sided, isn’t an AM, isn’t box to box..just an “8”
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Why do you persist with this utter bullshit. Doing 20% better in his 2 aerial duels per game is not a trouncing. Doing 15% better in his 1.2 tackles per game is not a trouncing. They still make the same amount of tackles per game, Intercept almost the same per game, Eriksen wins more pressure events, more pressure recoveries, more pressure adjusted tackles.
Stop fucking lying.
Sissoko trounces him defensively, the stats are just a few pages back.
Even saying he is 20% better than a pub player is embarrassing.
Pressure events don’t exist. It’s jockeying....it’s not stat worthy, and that’s why you like to keep using it, along with the fact he ran 40,0000 km in a game, like it means something
Doesn't seem to work for you. You called Sissoko a DM and Eriksen a deep lying playmaker, and now he's a wide forward ?
You just spew out this constant stream of inane, tedious, childish, passive aggressive, wise-fucking-acre, straw man bullshit.
It's really fucking tedious.
I called Sissoko a DM and still would.
You wanted to nit pick it to death so I can happily concede he’s box to box with defensive priorities.
You think he has the same role as Eriksen and are trying to say that Sissoko plays on the right and Eriksen in the left as “8”s
8 isn’t a position since 1992, so what is Eriksens position, in words.
He is an AM, a creative midfielder, left sided forward and has been playing recently as a deep lying playmaker.
That’s just facts.
You think football is defined on a graph, that’s why you call him an “8”.
It’s not a thing. He is a creative, attacking mid, playing a deeper role.
Disagree all you want, just shows you don’t know what you are taking about.