THE BEAUTIFUL GAME...

Bergwijn’s style will strike fear into English defences

TOUGH GUY Tottenham star Steven Bergwijn believes his game is perfectly suited to the Premier League

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Ndombele, Sissoko, Son,

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Paul Tierney

DUTCH WINGER Steven Bergwijn believes his game is perfect for terrorising English defences.

The Tottenham ace, 23, is playing a crucial part in his club’s flying start to the season as they fight for silverware on four fronts.

While keeping the likes of Gareth Bale and Lucas Moura out of the starting line-up, Bergwijn has also won rave reviews from boss Jose Mourinho (right).

Integral to those excellent performances, according to the forward, is his versatility – allied to an ability to catch Premier League defenders unaware by striking at them from deep. The ex-PSV Eindhoven star first noted that this caused English teams trouble when facing our elite in Europe. And it was the same 18 months ago as Holland dumped the Three Lions out of the last four in the Nations League finals.

Bergwijn, capped 11 times, said: “For me, I like to drop when I play against teams. I know the English defenders – they don’t like to follow you.

“When we played against the England team or when I was at PSV and we played against English teams, most of the defenders always stayed. I dropped – and made it difficult for them.”

Spurs duo Harry Kane and Heungmin Son are the best on the planet right now at destroying opponents with their unique counter-attacking partnership.

And Bergwijn insists he is taking loads from the lethal pair when it comes to the art of timing bursts from well inside your own half.

“I think everyone has learnt from each other – and the position from these guys is always good,” he said. “Sonny knows how to run at them. Before I didn’t do that so much, now I do that more because I see how he does it.

“And, for us, it’s good to o play like that because se

Harry drops and we can an go into the space behind.”

Whether Tottenham’s title rivals are now beginning to wise up to this particular smash-and-grab tactic remains to be seen.

However, after two league defeats on the bounce – to Liverpool and

Leicester – Mourinho’s early pacesetters need to return to winning ways against Wolves today.

Bergwijn says frustration in the camp after dropping those points was inevitable but so, too, is the squad’s desire to bounce back.

He continued: ” Yes, it’s true and very important we stick together. These things happen. it’s still the beginning of the season.

“We have a lot of leaders in the team, players who can speak, guys who you listen to. We have a good balance in that everyone respects each other.”

Not to forget the Special One at the helm. Bergwijn admitted: “He’s a big manager who has won a lot of trophies. I’m happy he speaks good words about me.

“It’s good I can play a lot of positions because we have a lot of players who can play everywhere.”