Inter attacking midfielder Christian Eriksen has shared his hope that he does not find himself resigned to sitting on the bench at Inter for the next few months.
Eriksen has started two of Inter’s three games this season from the bench and has only come off of the bench on one of those occasions. In his two appearances, he has failed to make any goal contributions.
“I certainly don’t hope that I will sit on the bench for all of this autumn. At least that’s not my intention. Nor do I hope it is the intention of the club or the coach,” he explained in an interview with Danish news outlet BT.dk.
“There will be an incredible number of matches in a short time, and now we also have three national team matches in a few days.
“The Champions League starts when we get back to their respective clubs, so there will be a lot of games to play, I’m sure I’ll probably have my minutes. So it depends a lot on the people on the outside and I myself expect this moment to come.”
He then spoke on finding himself in an unfamiliar situation to what he is used to in terms of not playing all the time like he has almost everywhere else he has been.
“I find myself at a point where perhaps I had never been in a club team before. I got off to a great start after arriving at Inter in January and tried to show off then we stopped because of the Coronavirus and then it went little up and down.
“People’s thinking and expectations of me as a player is to be decisive in every game, and that wasn’t the case. That’s why people from the outside look at me differently now.
“Obviously you become less patient when you have experience and have tried different things. Whether you are 20, 28 or 30 years old, you don’t worry about sitting on the bench, in the end it is always unpleasant to sit on the bench.”
In conclusion he dismissed the recent media speculation that saw him linked with a possible return to the Premier League in the recently closed transfer window.
“I have not heard anything from my agent, and if there was something around me, I would have heard it from him or the club, but there was nothing.
“I gradually got used to the fact that a lot is written in the press. What is true and what is not true, I cannot answer. I only know what I was told and there was nothing concrete. So Monday was just a day like any other for me, because nothing happened.”
Since his arrival at Inter, Eriksen has made 28 appearances across all competitions to date, in which he has scored four goals and provided three assists for his teammates.
