'Tim Sherwood's half-time team talk inspired Tottenham to victory over Southampton' - Christian Eriksen

 
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Alex Kalinauckas24 March 2014

Christian Eriksen has revealed that Tottenham’s fight back against Southampton was inspired by the pep talk given to the team by manager Tim Sherwood at half time.

Sherwood's men found themselves two goals behind at home to Southampton but Christian Eriksen hit a goal either side of the break as they mustered a comeback.

Spurs snatched the win deep into stoppage time thanks to a fine strike from Gylfi Sigurdsson, and Eriksen believes the manager's words got them over the line.

Speaking after the match, he said: “We got a little speech at half-time and in the second half we were new guys. We try to play like the manager wanted, we showed it way more in the second half than the first half.”

Match-winner Sigurdsson was delighted to see Tottenham recover from a poor start in front of their home fans.

The Iceland international hailed the character shown to respond and stave off the looming threat of a fifth successive winless game.

He said: "After we started the game like we did, there is a lot of character in the team shown in the way we bounced back. It's better to be 1-0 or 2-0 down and come back and win 3-2 at home."

But he refused to get carried away by the victory and insisted the top four target was now very unlikely.

"I think it's going to be very difficult. It's out of our hands now," Sigurdsson told talkSPORT.

"The most important thing for us is to concentrate on one game at a time. We've got Liverpool next and that's going to be very difficult with the way they are playing.

"If we go on a little run, we'll see what happens at the end of the season."

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