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Final Up to date: December 28, 2023, 08:05 IST
Tottenham Hotspur’s Cristian Romero (AP)
Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou stated defender Cristian Romero shall be out of motion for 4 or 5 weeks with a hamstring harm.
Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou revealed Wednesday he’d been dealt one other harm setback when confirming Cristian Romero will miss the subsequent 4 to 5 weeks with a hamstring pressure.
The 25-year-old Argentina centre-back’s absence is all of the extra galling for Spurs as Romero solely returned from a three-match suspension firstly of December.
Romero suffered the harm throughout final weekend’s 2-1 victory in opposition to Everton with Postecoglou, talking forward of Thursday’s match at Brighton, saying: “Not so nice with Romero.
“He had a scan the opposite day and has received a hamstring pressure. We’re most likely 4 or 5 weeks for him.
“Disappointing to lose him, for positive. We clearly missed him with the suspension and now we’ve simply received him again and he steadied issues up.
“Now he shall be lacking once more for fairly a piece of time.”
Romero’s fellow central defender Micky van de Ven stays sidelined with a hamstring harm of his personal sustained throughout a 4-1 loss to Chelsea in November.
Van de Ven steered final week he might be again coaching in a fortnight, with a cautious Postecoglou hinting the January 14 journey to Manchester United as a comeback date for the participant.
“He’s getting nearer,” Postecoglou stated. “We’ll see him a while in January. I don’t assume Burnley however Man United on the 14th doubtlessly
“I don’t take a look at comeback dates till I see them coaching with us and he hasn’t been a part of the group.
“He isn’t as a result of be a part of the group this week so we’ll see how he’s going on the finish of this week. As soon as they begin coaching with the group, that’s once we begin enthusiastic about if they’re out there.
“He’s on the tail finish of it, for positive and in some unspecified time in the future, center of January he might be out there however how we use him after such an extended absence shall be relying on the place he’s at.”
Spurs might leapfrog Aston Villa into third place within the Premier League with victory at Brighton.
Postecoglou was linked with the Brighton job when Graham Potter left to hitch Chelsea final September earlier than the Seagulls appointed Roberto De Zerbi.
However the Spurs boss stated there was by no means a practical prospect of him leaving Scottish champions Celtic mid-season.
“No-one knew about me a 12 months in the past mate,” Postecoglou joked. “No, look I didn’t have discussions with Brighton on the time and to be sincere there wasn’t actually the chance that I would depart Celtic mid-season.
“I had solely been there a year-and-a-half and regardless that there was nothing actual and folks weren’t actually saying to me that golf equipment needed to speak to me, I form of knew in my thoughts that if I used to be going to do it, it must be after the second 12 months as a result of I used to be by no means going to depart throughout the 12 months.”
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
