Tottenham defender Eric Dier says the players are happy to be jumping into World Cup action within a week of the Premier League breakup.

England open their campaign against Iran on Monday.

"Yes, it's obviously a unique situation for us. It's my third major tournament with England and obviously the first time in this situation," Dier said.

"In some ways for me it's quite nice, not for the coaches and my managers tactically and that aspect of things, it's not ideal for them as they'd probably like to prepare us a bit more, but from a player's point of view the quick turnaround is actually quite a nice thing."

Dier said that he was quite "impatient" and now that they were out there, could not wait to get going.

"I'm quite impatient so it's nice to be getting started. There are obviously other aspects that aren't so great, players missing out to injuries which would have usually kept them out of a tournament. Now that we're here, I'm very excited to start."