Moroccan international Sofyan Amrabat has failed to show his effectiveness since he moved to Manchester United.
Eriksen entered the match late in United’s 1-0 win over Copenhagen, and showed his abilities in the final minutes of the match.
The Denmark international brought composure and creativity to United’s midfield when he came on from the bench in the encounter.
New star Amrabat, on the other hand, struggled throughout the match with Copenhagen with Scott McTominay dropping deeper after he was substituted.
Speaking in regards to Sofyan Amrabat, Scholes said: “It felt like we were watching a Europa League game in the first half. Like a Thursday night. Poor.”
“Second half was a lot better but you bring the better footballers on. You bring Christian Eriksen on, a much better footballer. No disrespect to Amrabat, he’s a stopper he’ll do his kind of thing. But he won’t build up play.”
“Christian Eriksen will. You saw the runs being made, all of sudden Fernandes is in the game, Garnacho too. Eriksen will find these players. For a 15-20 minute spell they looked like a proper team again.”
United coach Erik ten Hag was visibly happy with Eriksen’s display, and praised the midfielder’s leadership.
Though Sofyan Amrabat started the match, Eriksen got the praises from Ten Hag, who said: “Christian is always positive. He brings football and we did not have the football in the first-half– Copenhagen are well organised and you have to break them. Christian Eriksen makes the right passes.”
Perhaps Sofyan Amrabat has not fully adapted to life at Old Trafford or he is not used to the style of play of Erik Ten Hag.
Whichever the case may be, Scholes is not happy with it and feel the United boss should look for ways to play Eriksen ahead of Amrabat.
The Moroccan was allowed to join Manchester United on deadline day after the Italian side have had several negotiation with the Red Devils.
Erik ten Hag’s side paid €2 million as loan proposal for Sofyan Amrabat, which will see only €1 million of that fee guaranteed due to a break clause in January.
Sofyan Amrabat
Sofyan Amrabat is a professional footballer who was born on 21st August, 1996 and plays as a defensive midfielder for Manchester United, on loan from Fiorentina.
Sofyan Amrabat was born in the Netherlands. He however plays for the Morocco national team.
Amrabat is a graduate of Utrecht’s youth system and he made his first-team debut for the club in November 2014, and went on to make 54 appearances for them in total, before being signed by Feyenoord in 2017.
A year later, Amrabat joined Belgian team Club Brugge, who loaned him to Italian club Hellas Verona in August 2019.
Hellas Verona signed the Moroccan and immediately sold him to Fiorentina in January 2020.
Sofyan Amrabat’s Stats
So far for United, Amrabat has featured in 5 matches for the Red Devils in all competition and has picked up more yellow cards (1) than his good performance for the club.
In the five matches he has played for Manchester United, Amrabat has not made a 7.0 rating for the club. He has managed a 6.63 average rating so far.
