Christian Eriksen and Philippe Coutinho both started as Barcelona drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur in Tuesday’s Champions League clash at the Camp Nou.
When you spend £142 million on a single player (BBC), you would expect him to dominate a midfield in a Champions League clash.
But the fact that Philippe Coutinho was outshone and outclassed on Tuesday night as Barcelona slipped to a 1-1 home draw with Tottenham Hotspur has not gone unnoticed. Neither has the performance of Christian Eriksen in the famous white kit of Spurs.
Coutinho’s form has dipped in recent weeks and the former Liverpool man’s frustrations showed no signs of ending at the Camp Nou, as he clipped the post with curling efforts in both halves.
Eriksen, meanwhile, put himself forward as a candidate for the Man of the Match award, with a display that oozed craft and class at a stadium that has been home to some of the greatest central midfielders of the modern era.
The Danish international was key to many of Tottenham’s best moments, distributing the ball with ease and cutting open a prone Barca midfield again and again.
Barcelona have been heavily linked with a big-money move for Eriksen for much of the last year, with Don Balon claiming in May that the Catalan giants saw the former Ajax man as the ideal Andres Iniesta replacement.
And it seems that Eriksen would be more than welcome at the Camp Nou.
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