Christian Eriksen is refusing to get carried away by Tottenham’s win over Borussia Dortmund to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals, insisting it is merely “a good first step.”
The Dane helped Spurs to win at the Westfalenstadion in the second leg, with Harry Kane scoring the only goal of the game, securing a 4-0 aggregate win over the Bundesliga leaders.
But Eriksen has his sights set on going deep into the competition, pointing to their substantial experience as key to their progress.
“We take one game at a time. We are through to the next round,” Eriksen said.
“We have had our experience from the last few games and the last few years in the Champions League and now we are this far.
“We have come a long way and we have done very well to stay consistent. Now we are further than last year so it is a good first step and I hope we go further.”
Eriksen did admit Spurs were “lucky” to avoid conceding in Germany.
“We needed the luck today to keep a clean sheet,” Eriksen added. “Again in the second half we started to play a bit of football and we saw what the possibilities were.
“Of course they play very offensive so of course they don’t want to defend either. In that period there were a lot of spaces to play, we could even have played better some times.
“I think we did show some maturity to come back after the first half which we played was really poor. Of course the first goal killed the game really. It was a blow to them and a big boost to us. Now they had to score a lot of goals to go through.”
