Eric Dier reveals how he reacted to Bayern Munich drawing Arsenal in Champions League | B206BY8 | 2024-04-10 16:08:01
Bayern Munich defender Eric Dier says he is 'really excited' for the aspect's Champions League quarter-final with Arsenal, joking he 'wasn't prepared to return again to England so soon' when the draw was made.
Dier went to conflict towards Arsenal on numerous occasions throughout his nine-and-a-half yr spell with the membership's bitter rivals, Tottenham, and the 30-year-old is getting ready to renew that rivalry once more when the 2 teams lock horns.
Bayern first journey to the Emirates earlier than welcoming the Gunners to the Allianz Area in simply over every week's time, with Real Madrid and Manchester Metropolis colliding on this evening's different quarter-final.
Struggling for normal minutes beneath Ange Postecoglou and in search of a recent challenge away from Spurs, Dier completed a January change the Bayern and has since made 11 appearances in all competitions for the Bundesliga champions.
The England worldwide played the complete 90 minutes as Bayern overturned a first-leg deficit to overcome Lazio in the round of 16 and will little question be desperate for a spot in Thomas Tuchel's beginning XI tonight.
The Champions League represents Bayern's final reasonable shot at silverware in what has been a desperately disappointing season for the group, with Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen sitting 16 factors clear on the prime of the Bundesliga table.
'What are the probabilities? I wasn't prepared to return back to England so soon!' Dier advised Gary Neville while giving his ideas on the tie on the newest episode of The Overlap.
'Clearly, I'm actually excited. For me, personally, in all honesty, once I was at Spurs at first of this season and I didn't know if I was going to play in the Champions League again.
'That was genuinely a fear of mine, you recognize? So yeah, it provides me goosebumps figuring out that I've played towards Lazio right here. It was top-of-the-line atmospheres I've ever performed in. It was simply an unimaginable, unimaginable expertise for me.
'Just to play the Champions League makes me a bit of emotional.'
In accordance with Dier, Mikel Arteta's Arsenal are 'a bit more gritty' and 'a bit less naive' compared to final season once they finished runners-up to Manchester United within the Premier League.
Requested whether he watched Arsenal's goalless draw with Metropolis on the Etihad on the end of final month, Dier replied: 'Yeah, I watched it. I feel everyone was a bit dissatisfied with the best way the sport went.
'I feel they [Arsenal] are a really totally different group to final season. I feel final season they performed quite a bit nicer football than this season, however this season they seem to be a lot more result-driven, a bit extra gritty, a bit less naive, I'd say in all probability.
'I feel perhaps they might have tried to play a bit more toe to toe with Metropolis final yr, even at the Etihad, and this yr they appear like: "Okay, we're going to return here, defend properly and move on."'
The unwavering confidence inside Bayern's camp that the aspect would bounce again from their opening defeat to Lazio to progress by way of to the quarter-finals was something Dier had 'never actually skilled'.
'It's a funny feeling for me. Once we misplaced to Lazio, I used to be on the bench, and after the sport I keep in mind a whole lot of things have been stated within the dressing room and it was type of a relaxed dressing room: "It's okay, they've gotta come right here now, they've gotta come to the Allianz",' he defined.
'And I'd by no means actually skilled that before, that feeling of confidence. It made me assume a bit bit of what Liverpool should feel like plenty of the time once they go: "Okay, now they've acquired to return and play at Anfield".
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'Thomas Muller stated it after the Lazio recreation. Obviously he's received all the expertise on the planet and just stated, "It's solely 1-Zero and now they've received to return here".
'It was a nice moment to be part of and see that from a participant like him.'
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