Tottenham Hotspur have three games in the space of five days, having also played less than 48 hours ago.
Harry Winks has told ESPN it is ‘ridiculous’ that Tottenham Hotspur have so many games in a short period of time.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side have three more games in all competitions from now until next Tuesday.
Tottenham visit West Ham United in a League Cup game tonight and then host PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League next week, either side of a Premier League trip to Wolves on Saturday.
Spurs played as recently as Monday and asked by ESPN whether the fixture congestion is a test for the Lilywhites’ strength in depth, Winks said:”It’s going to have to be. We’ve got three games in five days, which is ridiculous really in terms of the schedule.
“It’s going to be tough for us, we’ve got to dig in. But we’ve got a big squad, we’ve got players that can play two games in two days because we’re a fit squad.
“I might have [had a schedule like this] in youth-team football but it’s completely different. At the men’s level, the demand of the game is so much more physical. I think it’s more physically hard to prepare, as opposed to tactically and mentally. We’re in the same frame of mind and tactics that we do all the time.”
Tottenham lost 1-0 at home to City on Monday night, leaving them five points behind Liverpool and Guardiola’s side at the summit of the Premier League.
The pressure is on Pochettino to deliver a trophy this season, having failed to do so in any of his four years in charge, and defeat at West Ham tonight would mean that the League Cup is one competition they won’t be winning.
It isn’t quite a season-defining period for the North Londoners, because the Premier League is by no means lost and the FA Cup doesn’t begin for them until 2019, but if they don’t weather this storm then it sets them up for a negative November.
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