Ryan Sessegnon has credited new teammate Ivan Perisic’s pre-match recommendation after scoring Tottenham’s opening aim of the season in a 4-1 win over Southampton this weekend.
Perisic joined Spurs this summer season in a free switch after leaving Inter Milan to reunite with former supervisor Antonio Conte. The Croatian worldwide remains to be working again to full health after harm and commenced his Premier League profession on the bench earlier than making a late cameo.
Sessegnon has struggled to safe common minutes at Spurs since becoming a member of from Fulham in 2019, however after impressing Conte final season and with the rumoured departure of teammate Sergio Reguilon, the Englishman is ready to share game-time with the 34-year-old Perisic over the approaching season, and began within the left wing-back place on Saturday.
James Ward-Prowse scored the opening aim of the sport to provide Southampton a shock lead however Sessegnon’s back-post header gave Spurs a vital equaliser, and later Sessegnon revealed Perisic had advised him to focus on that space towards Saints right-back Kyle Walker-Peters.
“He is a great, great player,” Sessegnon mentioned of Perisic, who has received main trophies at Borussia Dortmund, Wolfsburg, Bayern Munich and Inter, in addition to scoring within the World Cup ultimate for Croatia. “He won a lot of titles but he is also a great person. He has helped me a lot straight away already. It can only be good for us to both be challenging for that left-wing spot.
“Even for the goal today, he literally told me get in the back post and you will score. That helped me today. He said Kyle Walker-Peters is quite small at the back post so if a ball goes in make sure you are there to head it in. Literally just before the warm-up he came to me and I took it on board and I don’t think you guys saw but two minutes before that a ball went in and I missed the opportunity to get in there, so I was very angry at that situation. When the ball came in again I had to be there.”
Sessegnon is hopeful that his Tottenham profession can lastly take off after a stop-start starting with the membership.
“Three years ago is when I signed and that’s the first time I’ve had a proper pre-season under my belt with no problems, so that probably made the difference for me today and I just want to continue,” he mentioned.
“Obviously it’s going to take time for the new guys to come and gel. But from training as well the message has been very clear from the manager that anyone can play in this team,” he mentioned. “The new players have gelled quite well but he has stuck with the players that played last season and we got the win today. When you play for a club like Tottenham there is always going to be players trying to take your position anyway and that is the quality that we have in our squad. Every game you have to treat like it’s your last and that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk