YEOVIL, ENGLAND – While sitting out in Tottenham’s second friendly (a 2-1 win over Udinese), Thor Eriksen realized that he had to be loaned. “I was watching from the pressbox, and I realized something,” Eriksen said through a translator. “I’m still young, and I’m still a prospect. I’m not going to start on the first team. I have to be loaned.”

And loaned he was, as Eriksen was sent to Npower League 1 side Yeovil Town, where he would be paired with veteran forward James Hayter in a 4-1-3-2 formation. The young Norweigan arrived in Yeovil just in time to play the last friendly of the preseason against the MLS’s Vancouver Whitecaps. The first half of the game started slowly, with both teams in a deadlock and no goals scored. The game remained goalless until the 78th minute, when Eriksen fired a shot from outside the box into the bottom corner, just past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Brian Sylvestre. Eriksen appeared to fit in very well with the team, as the game finished in a 1-0 win for Yeovil Town.