– If Eriksen plays well, so do Tottenham, so he can be decisive, but Thomas Delaneys partnership with Axel Witsel has been vital to Dortmund’s success.
UEFA had already before Wednesday’s Champions League 1/8-finale at Wembley pointed at danskerduellen between Eriksen and Delaney as the match is absolute nøgleduel.
And judging from the first of two showdown, so is Eriksen and Tottenham with the best starting point, after having smashed Dortmund 3-0.
Son Heung-Min sent Tottenham on the right track one and a half minutes into the second half, when he with the inside helflugtede post from venstrebacken Jan Vertonghen in the network. Dortmund is the of all the world’s clubs, as koreaneren have scored the most goals against.
the raiders dropped after a rapid transition, where Christian Eriksen was behind bolderobringen. Eriksen also had the maximum foot on a 2-0 scoring from Vertonghen five minutes before the time and so he kicked hjørnesparket, as Fernando Llorente headede into the very end.
Eriksen and Son took the lead against Dortmund. Photo: David Klein/Ritzau Scanpix
The ensign could even have scored earlier in the game, but free kick to the yellow committed by Delaney at the scorer Son smoke in the wall. Eriksen was also behind several good hjørnesparkschancer and had a good run in the depth, where the last delivery, however, was missing.
At the break looked like Delaney, otherwise, the winner of the danskerduellen.
– I will greet him with a sliding tackle, so it will be just fine, had Delaney said before kick-off.
So brutally he went not to work, but Delaney and Witsel got Eriksen to pull further and further back on the pitch to get the ball, and Eriksen was to last as a quarterback in the rear chain and tried to distribute the balls.
Eriksen against Delaney. Photo: GLYN KIRK/Ritzau/Scanpix
But the game was long too slow and missed by the offensive profiles as Harry Kane and Share Alli too large, like Dortmund also lacked offensive profiles as Marco Reus and Pablo Alcacer.
Before the match was Delaney asked if he was surprised that Eriksen had not yet been in the Champions League final, after which he pointed out that perhaps it also was just large enough pressure to put on Eriksen, the age of 27 years on Thursday.
With a 3-0 victory looks like Christian Eriksen is now the best bet on a new dane, who can win Europe’s finest tournament for the first time since Milan’s victory in 2003.
Was Eriksen and Tottenham go all the way, he will be number 12 in the series after Johnny Hansen, Lars Bastrup, Ivan Nielsen, Søren Lerby, Jan Heintze, Brian Laudrup, Michael Laudrup, Peter Schmeichel, Thomas Helveg, Martin Laursen, Jon Dahl Tomasson.
the Danes in Ajax has less options to win the tournament. At home against Real Madrid, it was 1-2 at the end of the Ziyech, Benzema and Asensio in a fight, where Kasper Dolberg replaced Lasse Schöne with a neighborhood again, and was convicted on a historical WAS ruling in the Champions League.
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