Having seen him live tonight for the first time this season, you can't argue with him full stop. I don't know if that is how he has played in other games but what I saw tonight showed why he gets so much praise, and keeps getting picked by manager after manager. He is the embodiment of, yes a cliche, keeping care of the ball and even before he scored he was in my thoughts as possibly man of the match, until he played the one and only bad pass I saw him play in the 82nd minute.
You could always see why clubs like Chelsea wanted.
How he gets stick on here, I really have never understood.