Tottenham Hotspur travel to the Emirates to take on Arsenal tomorrow.
Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino sat down for his pre-match press conference ahead of his side’s class with Arsenal tomorrow, and delivered a somewhat concerning update on Toby Alderweireld, as quoted by popular football news website Football.London.
Tottenham have a whole host of players who are doubts for the North London Derby, but the Belgian is the only one who has bene categorically ruled out of the Emirates clash.
The Belgian centre-back has become such an important player for the Lilywhites, since joining the club from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2015, forging a formidable partnership with countryman Jan Vertonghen at the heart of Spurs’ defence.
Pochettino though, told reporters that the 28-year-old could very well be absent from the first-team until after Christmas, in what will be a major blow for Tottenham, as quoted by Football.London:
“It is not a big issue like Toby Alderweireld. Toby is out. We need to assess him. We expect longer than we previously [thought] when the problem happened. Maybe after Christmas. Maybe. That is the expectation. It will be longer [than we thought]. The injury is in his hamstring.”
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Pochettino’s men currently sit three places and four points clear of Arsene Wenger’s side in the table, and a win for Spurs tomorrow will be of paramount importance to their hopes of keeping the pressure up on Pep Guardiola’s rampant Manchester City side.
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