Eric Dier is an extremely frustrating player, to put it mildly. Last night’s performance bar a handful of depressing errors was a decent performance from the Englishman.
Strong passing accuracy numbers, solid long passing, plenty of duels won, yet all outweighed by lapses in concentration that have undoubtedly dogged the 27-year-old’s career.
The first goal yet again featured our hero watching the ball, opposed to marking his man, and so Eric again is left facing his own goal whilst the ball whistles past Hugo Lloris.
Add to this a sorry bundle of eight incidents, where possession was lost – on seven occasions, this was in his own half.