We all know what Christian Eriksen did at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday night.
Christian Eriksen sank Irish hearts during Denmark’s 5-1 thumping of the Republic of Ireland in the World Cup play-off second leg.
His first goal, in particular (don’t worry, we’re not cruel enough to show it) had football fans around the globe purring. At the time, there were some folks throwing around that ‘world class’ label to describe the Dane.
In fairness, some people got a little carried away with the initial showering of praise.
Christian Eriksen 🇩🇰 vs Ireland 🇮🇪:
⏰ 32nd Minute: ⚽️
⏰ 63rd Minute: ⚽️
⏰ 74th Minute: ⚽️The most underrated midfielder in the world right now. 😳🔥👏 pic.twitter.com/mfVWo0781i
— SPORF (@Sporf) November 14, 2017
As we all know though, once a player who’s not consistently viewed as one of the world’s elite suddenly gets slapped with that tag, a disappointing performance is an inevitability. Eriksen had to wait just four days for everyone to turn on him.
The consensus that Eriksen was one of the most underappreciated geniuses in the beautiful game took a breather when Tottenham travelled to Arsenal for Saturday’s North London Derby.
Goals from Shkodran Mustafi and Alexis Sanchez sealed a memorable 2-0 win for the Gunners. While it was a solid performance from Arsenal, Spurs players received their fair share of criticism.
Eriksen didn’t have the best showing of his career at the Emirates and the Twitterati weren’t shy of bringing up what he did against the Boys In Green as a way of proving that he is now ‘overrated’.
All that noise about Eriksen being World Class midweek because of a hattrick vs Ireland 🤭
— ₁₀ (@LosoLFC) November 18, 2017
3 days ago people claimed Eriksen to be the best CAM in the world because he scored goals against Ireland.
Look at him now.
— No One (@melkoroth1) November 18, 2017
Christian Eriksen being brought down a peg or 2 by Arsenal today. After a so called world class performance against a poor Ireland defence on Tuesday.
— Arthur McConville (@arthurmcconvile) November 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/philipreel/status/931883258379415554
https://twitter.com/whiskalifa_/status/931871963194281986
Has Eriksen left his football skills in Ireland??! #COYS
— Andrew Maddren 💙🇬🇧🏴 (@RodChopper) November 18, 2017
Football fans, eh?
