Ange Postecoglou offers worrying replace on health of Spurs defenders

Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou. (Photograph by Ian MacNicol/Getty Pictures)

Ange Postecoglou has revealed Ben Davies has suffered a ‘setback’ in his restoration, that means Tottenham Hotspur may very well be left with none match centre-backs towards Wolves. 

Davies has been out for the reason that begin of December with a hamstring damage however was as a result of a minimum of return to the squad in time for Spurs’ conflict with Wolves on Sunday.

Nonetheless, Postecoglou has now revealed Davies goes to be out a short while longer.

“No, he’s dominated out,” Postecoglou informed reporters on Friday (through BBC Sport). “Sadly, he had a setback in coaching, so he’ll in all probability be out for a few weeks.”

Ange Postecoglou feeding off scraps

Ange Postecoglou of Tottenham Hotspur throughout the Premier League match towards Liverpool. (Photograph by Marc Atkins/Getty Pictures)

Tottenham’s 1-0 Boxing Day defeat to Nottingham Forest proved pricey not only for the factors they missed out on or slipping to eleventh within the desk.

The Lilywhites additionally needed to withdraw Radu Dragusin late on by damage, whereas full-back Djed Spence was despatched off for 2 yellow card offences.

“A bit early to inform,” Postecoglou mentioned of Dragușin’s damage.

“He clearly tweaked his ankle final night time and felt he couldn’t proceed. We’ll have to attend and see.”

If Dragusin is absent, it means Tottenham might be and not using a pure centre-back towards Wolves on Sunday, with Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven additionally injured.

Within the worst-case state of affairs, Spurs might be left with out 5 defenders and their goalkeeper, whereas Future Udogie remains to be recovering full match health having began a sport for the primary time since December twelfth towards Forest.

“There’s at all times been points at totally different instances however to not this extent,” mentioned Postecoglou.

“I believe we’ve had near fairly constantly 10 first-team gamers not out there for a big run of video games.

“We’ve been sort of getting by it for fairly some time and retaining our fingers crossed we don’t get any extra points, however the nature of soccer and fixture scheduling we’ve had, we’ve at all times been on a positive line of with the ability to get by.

“It’s one other take a look at for us, however it’s what it’s, and no matter we have to cope with, we’ll cope with and prepare for Sunday.”