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Eric Dier says Antonio Conte has asked Tottenham's middle backs to "break the lines and be forceful", featuring colleague Cristian Romero as the ideal model.
Spikes kept their main four expectations on target with an essential triumph over rivals West Ham on Sunday, running out 3-1 victors at the London Stadium.
Dier and Romero have both been special cases under Conte following their profits from injury, featuring the significance of their nonattendances in the early piece of the Italian's rule.
Romero's presentation against the Hammers was especially amazing as he assisted smother Michail Antonio en with steering to an urgent three places.
"The director needs "That in the middle backs, particularly on the sides, yet from every one of the three of us - to break the lines and be forceful," Dier said. We are playing a back five however it is seldom a back five, somebody is continuously attempting to break the lines for us to be more proactive and more forceful and permit us to press up the pitch. Cuti [Romero], probably his best quality is that he is extremely forceful and he peruses the game well overall."
Harry Kane and Heung-min Son were the distinctions as Spurs got back to inside three marks of fourth-set Arsenal and got consecutive successes interestingly since Boxing Day.
Kurt Zouma turned Kane's cross his own net under tension from Son, and the England chief set fine wraps up from the South Korean on one or the other side of half-time. The triumph, at last, finished the success misfortune win-misfortune cycle that has cost Spurs important ground in the race for Champions League capability.
"I can't conceal that [our inconsistency] has been burdening my psyche, it has been burdening our consciences in general, and to end that [cycle] now before the global break is truly significant for us," Dier said.
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