Jan Vertonghen is enjoying all the big matches Spurs are currently involved in

Jan Vertonghen says practice is paying off for Christian Eriksen

Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen says it is an excellent time to be playing for the north London club.

Spurs romped to a 3-0 victory at West Brom on Saturday and are currently fifth in the Premier League table, very much in contention for Champions League qualification.

And Mauricio Pochettino’s men also have the Capital One Cup final against Chelsea and a two-legged Europa League encounter with Fiorentina to look forward to.

“It is very exciting times,” said Vertonghen.

“It’s a shame we are out of the FA Cup as we wanted to keep active in four competitions but we’re still in the Europa League.

“We have big games coming up in February and obviously on the 1st of March (Capital One Cup final) but we have a lot of games to win before we go there.”

In-form Spurs duo Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane shared the three goals between them at West Brom and Vertonghen says it is key that they continue to perform.

Eriksen has been superb from set-pieces of late and, having watched him find the target with another free-kick, Vertonghen said: “Just beforehand, I said to Danny Rose ‘If he scores this again, it’s unbelievable’. And he did it again.

“He deserves it. He practices those every day and you can see that it has paid off.

“Harry is another one that deserves it. He keeps working hard in training, he keeps showing the right mentality, and you saw that again today.

“I hope they can keep scoring because they are two big players for us.”