Eriksen Gunning for you
ERIC DIER has warned Arsenal that red-hot Christian Eriksen is in the form of his life.
Tottenham maestro Eriksen smashed a hat-trick against Republic of Ireland to fire Denmark into the World Cup finals on Tuesday night.
He now has 27 goals in 77 games for club and country since the start of last season and Dier reckons that spells bad news for the Gunners.
The arch-rivals clash in the North London derby at the Emirates on Saturday lunchtime and Dier said: “It’s great for Tottenham he’s continuing to excel.
“We’re seeing the best Christian Eriksen we’ve ever seen at the moment. Hopefully he can keep going. The
mentality going into the derby is to win – simple really.”
Eriksen may be in the best form of his career and on a massive high after his heroics with Denmark. But Dier does not believe it will go to his head because the 25-year-old is so grounded.
He said: “Christian’s quite a relaxed guy, so I don’t think it will affect him too much. He’s obviously coming very high on confidence now.
“I think he’s had a fantastic campaign for Denmark. It’s well deserved he got the hat-trick and helped them go through.”
High
Dier reckons the Spurs boys in the England team are also on a high ahead of the derby after holding Germany and Brazil to goalless draws at Wembley.
The Tottenham midfielder, who captained his country in both games, said: “All the boys here with England – I don’t think I’m the only one – every game we play we want to be the better team.
“We’re getting better in that sense. Germany last week was a massive improvement.
“I think it was really a 50-50 game where we had great spells and they had good spells as well. We had less of that against Brazil, which is obviously disappointing.
“But the ambition of everyone here is to keep improving and progressing to be on the level with the best teams in the world.”