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Originally Posted by mw828
eriksen consistently confounds the typical armchair expert. his level is actually quite consistent and has been since he arrived at tottenham. for some reason this season people are singling him out as being out of form but it isn't true. sort by scorepoints i suppose. maybe it is the particularly good form of others (dembele, dier, toby) that makes it seem that way. and it really has baffled me that nobody ever catches on that only 100.0% of the time when we sub him out we lose our bite and start struggling. it is god damn mindboggling.
I think it's the good form of Alli that has marginalised Eriksen. His best scorepoint spell came when he was effectively playing as a second striker in a Bergkamp-type role behind Kane, so he was constantly getting into he box and often ahead of Kane.
More often than not, nowadays he is interchanging with the number 8, and it's Lamela and Alli getting ahead of Kane. This explains his lack of scorepoints, but that notwithstanding, I still think his performance level has dropped below it's peak and while he still contributes, he just doesn't seem to play those key passes in those close games against teams like Leicester, which is his stock in trade.
That notwithstanding, he is without a scorepoint in 6 games. I'd be tempted to start Son today against Sunderland, just because we have lots of good options in that area, and we need to keep Son sharp for when we don't bring a striker in this month....