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[Telegraph] Tottenham suffer huge injury blow with James Maddison’s ankle injury worse than expected (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] zxnoregretzxzx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] noob_wins@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] grey_hat_uk@alien.top 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] airz23s_coffee@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dispelthemyth@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Keep talking, I’m nearly there…..

[–] conceal_the_kraken@alien.top 1 points 1 year 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.