Bayern Munich versus Real Madrid is not just about Harry Kane versus Jude Bellingham. It's also about the in-form, under-appreciated Eric Dier.
Dier faces a huge test against Real. But he loves a challenge.
When it comes to players most popular amongst his peers, Eric Jeremy Edgar Dier is right up there. When it comes to players most under-appreciated by English supporters, the 30-year-old centre-back is also right up there.
Players move clubs, and often find it hard to maintain close friendships but Dier makes friends for life. Dele Alli to Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembele, Ryan Sessegnon to Matt Doherty, amongst many others, are colleagues who became comrades.
Unwanted at Tottenham Hotspur, although many Spurs fans still hold him dear, Dier stepped into the Bayern Munich dressing-room in January and built a rapport with the statesmen within, Thomas Mueller and Manuel Neuer, as well as the teenaged midfield prospect Aleksandar Pavlovic. Dier and Pavlovic are two of the first in at Säbener Straße and chat away.