Tottenham suffer huge blow with James Maddison’s ankle injury worse than expected
www.telegraph.co.uk
The midfielder has pulled out of the England squad, and it adds another problem for Spurs after the injury to Micky van de Ven
  • zxnoregretzxzx@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It hasn’t ruined your entire season. Spurs are still in a great position now to push for a CL place which would’ve been well above expectations at the start of the season. Even with your great start a serious title challenge was more fantasy than Lord of the Rings.

    • airz23s_coffee@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Most peoples concerns are the push for a CL place.

      Lost VDV til potentially January so backlines dodgy. Lost our creative engine for ???. And that’s during a really tough run of games.

      Then in January we lose Sarr/Biss who’ve been running the midfield for AFCON, and Son for the Asian cup.

      Could be a really derailing run of results from here til February.

      • conceal_the_kraken@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I think you’ll be alright for AFCON. Bentancur is back, Hojbjerg is hardly a slouch (and not too dissimilar to Gallagher, who Postecoglou wanted). January is a relatively nice time to lose them too, with not many PL games, no EFL cup semi, and a potentially easy FA Cup draw.

        There’s also a good chance that most of your other players will be back then. Even just getting Romero back after a few games will put you back into a good position. With no Europe or EFL Cup I don’t think you’ll be in too bad a position for December.

    • noob_wins@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Just imagining Saruman watching Spurs-Chelsea on the Palantir has me cracking up

    • grey_hat_uk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      They’ve got the top 3 scoring teams in their next 5 games with a weakened backline, that sort of thing can knock confidence quite a bit.