He is one short of becoming the fourth player, after Teddy Sheringham (98), Jermain Defoe (91) and Robbie Keane (91), to score 50 Premier League goals for Spurs.
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He said: “Yes. After our performance and our victory – it was a fantastic 4-0 – we all believed it would be possible to win the league, yes”. That is the last time that we talk about Eriksen’s contract, there were some rumours.
“It was very important for him to recover the feeling of scoring”, Pochettino said.
The Potters sit bottom of the Premier League following a poor start to the season, and things took a turn for the worse at the weekend as Tottenham ran out 4-0 winners at the bet365 Stadium.
“It was a outstanding – a ideal performance”, he added.
Eriksen has faced criticism for rumoured wage demands that would make him the club’s top earner, but it is suggested he has settled on £75,000 a week after discussing the club’s direction with Mauricio Pochettino. It’s only about being focused in training, improve fitness, quality, relationship with team-mates on pitch, but I have no doubt about Christian Eriksen’s quality, skills. “But he is more mature and has more experience and he will start to score again”.
“We have a squad to compete in different competitions”, Pochettino said, mindful of the extra games that come when taking on Europe. “It’s a very good group of people, players who connect with each other, staff who connect with the players and we all have an idea of where we want to go, and hopefully we’ll achieve it”.
Having joined Spurs in a big-money move from German outfit Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2015, Son struggled to make an impact in his first season in England and failed to secure a regular place in the starting line-up.
“I was relaxed as the window was closing – I was in Spain!”
“I was happy too”. I am happy with my squad. You know how he is, last season at Newcastle and the Euros what he did was fantastic. But Tottenham didn’t give up, and they were able to equalize with the help of Dier who made it 1-1 for the Spurs. “Sometimes you need the ball to fall for you, and it did today”.
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“In my view it was (a foul on Walters) and Marko, I think, had to hurdle the leg just take evasive action”.
