Christian Eriksen: We showed we can play against Chelsea and beat them

Tottenham’s young Dane has packed a lot into a short career and is ready to start winning titles, starting with the Capital One Cup against Chelsea

Christian Eriksen is used to pressure. The man who carries Tottenham’s hopes of a first trophy in seven years has been the darling of Danish football since a teenager, played in four finals with Ajax where he signed at 16 and used to lock his bedroom door after a bad game to avoid speaking with his father.

He grew up shouldering the weight of a nation’s expectation, proclaimed as the next Michael Laudrup, and has become accustomed to ever-present, hyperbolic epithets during a career that remains in its infancy. Eriksen, still only 23, has had to deal with such hype for many years. This season, though, he has certainly justified it.

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