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Tottenham's Vincent Janssen will adapt to Premier League - Eric Dier

Tottenham Hotspur defender Eric Dier is confident his teammate Vincent Janssen will prove to be a success in the Premier League.

Janssen, 22, signed for Tottenham from Dutch side AZ Alkmaar this summer but has failed to find the back of the net in nine league appearances.

Dier, who joined Spurs from Sporting Lisbon in 2014, is sure the striker, who scored from the penalty spot in Tuesday's 2-1 EFL Cup loss at Liverpool, will impress once he has adapted to life in England.

"I can speak from experience, when you come from a different country -- he's come from Holland -- it's not easy," Dier said in The Guardian.

"People at home may not understand, but he's come from a different country, a different culture. He moved here by himself. He's got to get used to a whole new way of training, playing, a whole new way of life. These things take time. It's only natural he will keep on improving.

"I don't think he's been bad. He has great qualities and he's shown them again today. It's more a case of the team being better in the final third than one player."

Tottenham, who are fifth in the Premier League, are currently without a win in their last four matches in all competitions and next face Leicester City on Saturday, and Dier is expecting a reaction from his side.

He said: "That's the attitude we have to have. If you want to be a big club and you want to be challenging, then when you have a defeat, you have to bounce back strongly. That will be our aim.

"There are 29 games to go, there's a long way to go. I'm sure it will be very tight sometimes and I'm sure there will be gaps at other times.

"It's a bit premature to be talking about this because a couple of weeks ago, Man City, they were five or six points ahead and everyone was saying they are going to run away with it. The Premier League chops and changes and I'm sure it will come down to the wire."

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