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What did Eriksen do? Seriously. This is laughable. Donny was comfortably the best player on the pitch once he came on.
The plus points for Eriksen are he protects the ball. That's all I heard all summer. He finished the first half with a pass completion rate below 60% it was atrocious.
One of the worst debuts Old Trafford has witnessed in the last decade.
Change Eriksens name to McT and you're giving in the same rating. They were as effective as eachother. The first corner he was taken off if was the first one we put a decent ball in.
I get it you don't like Eriksen but come on he was asked to play as a false 9 first half and it was a disaster the midfield we started with couldn't take the ball off the defenders and get our attacking players on the ball. I wasn't that impressed by his signing either but lets at least give the guy a chance he's played barely any of the pre season matches as the club took an age to get the deal over the line.
Could have subbed off the entire starting XI at half time to be honest they were awful.
Second half Eriksen I felt from that deeper spot allowed us to start playing through the press a bit and Ronaldo being on forced their defence back a bit probably also a tactical change from them to protect their 2-0 lead a bit.
I gave him a 6 at half time he'd have been a 4.
We did almost score off an Eriksen corner btw second half the chance Martinez had at the back post.
As for Donny I barely even noticed him when he came on I personally don't see it with that guy seen more than enough of him to know he's not what we need.