Tottenham Hotspur made it through to the next round of the Carabao Cup with a win over Manchester City tonight, but at what cost? Ange Postecoglou has spoken after the game about injury concerns as Micky Van de Ven, Cristian Romero, and Timo Werner came off early.
If the tie between Spurs and Man City was tough to call before the game, it was even more difficult to predict which way it would go as the game went on.
Tottenham took a surprise lead through a long-awaited Timo Werner goal, and then doubled their lead thanks to a wonder goal from Pape Matar Sarr after a well-worked corner.
Despite their first-half dominance, Spurs were pegged back by a Matheus Nunes goal just before the break. However, neither side could find another goal, and Tottenham progress to the next round.
The only problem is, throughout the game, we saw Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero, and Timo Werner all leave the field with suspected injuries.
Speaking to the press after the game (via Football.London) Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou was asked about any potential injury to his Tottenham players – Micky Van de Ven, Cristian Romero, and Timo Werner.
He said: “Micky felt something in his hamstring. I haven’t got the full update on him but he definitely felt something and we’ll see how he is.
“Cuti was a bit tired. I contemplated changing him at half-time but after losing Micky as well I didn’t want to lose another centre-half. He said he felt ok but my gut was telling me there’s no point taking a risk as we had Ben Davies who could come on.
“Timo hasn’t played a lot so I felt it was more fatigue hopefully than anything else.”
We have everything crossed that Micky van de Ven is not seriously injured, as he is absolutely crucial to our style of play. Romero didn’t particularly seem to be injured, but it was an odd time to replace him if not. Hopefully, none of these issues are lasting, and we can maintain a fairly small injury list moving into the weekend. Micky Van de Ven and Romero being unavailable would be a disaster for Tottenham, injury or no injury.
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