Mirth Really fun watch. Øde's ability to create that time with his first touch, his body position and his movement seems almost unparalleled to me—and it's an ability that relies on his might-as-well-be-psychic faculty of instantly reading the movement and intentions of half a dozen neighbouring players.
Bergkamp's wizardry in that field is one of very few comparisons that makes sense.
I used to compare Cesc to a supercomputer, because when he made his defence-splitting passes he was effectively solving the "three body problem" in half a second for two defenders and a forward, then gliding the ball up the field on the sole vector whose direction and velocity would put it right on that forward's foot at the equivalent of the Lagrange point ... but to make those passes Cesc did mostly need to be head up with a little space and time.
Cesc, for all his freakish ability, was never capable of creating something from nothing in heavy traffic the way that Ødegaard does with such consistency.
