Ange Postecoglou confirms 'significant' Tottenham injury in latest blow

Ange Postecoglou has revealed that Richarlison volition beryllium sidelined for "a important magnitude of time" with a hamstring sustained against Aston Villa connected Sunday.

Richarlison was retired for 2 months from August with an unspecified wounded and was making lone his 5th quality against Villa since returning to fitness.

Postecoglou described the striker arsenic a "long-term" absentee but asked if helium could enactment a timeline connected his return, the caput manager said: "Not really. I’m reticent to enactment [a clip on] it but he’ll beryllium retired for a important magnitude of time. It’s a important hamstring injury.

"He was precise disappointed. We tried to instrumentality a antithetic attack [to his rehab], helium worked awfully hard connected his rehab but besides his wide fitness.

"He’d truly trimmed down successful presumption of his conditioning. He was doing everything right, we eased him backmost into playing we didn’t privation to overload him and unluckily helium broke down again.

"He’s disappointed but ultimately, we’ve conscionable got to support getting him backmost successful determination and enactment with him to get him backmost up due to the fact that he’s an important player. You saw past week the interaction helium had coming disconnected the seat and mounting up the extremity for him.

"Disappointing for him, disappointing for america due to the fact that we haven’t truly had him astatine our disposal this year. But we’ll conscionable support moving with Richy and effort to get him back."

Postecoglou hopes to invited backmost vice-captain Cristian Romero against the Tractor Boys aft the Argentine sat retired Thursday's Europa League decision astatine Galatasaray with a ft wounded but Timo Werner (groin) and Mikey Moore (virus) are expected to stay out.

"Last nighttime [Thursday], the little I got aft the crippled was everyone came done unscathed truthful there’s nary issues from past night," Postecoglou said.

"Cristian, we’ll spot however helium goes the adjacent mates of days, the thought is to effort and get him retired determination and bid and he’s beauteous keen to truthful helium has a accidental for the weekend.

"Mikey [Moore] astir apt inactive not close for the weekend, and astir apt Timo [Werner] arsenic well. Really retired of the ones who are out, lone Cristian could beryllium back."

Spurs skipper Heung-min Son was replaced astatine half-time successful Istanbul, on with chap winger Brennan Johnson, and Postecoglou revealed helium would proceed to physique up the Korean fitness.

Son was injured successful the Europa League triumph implicit Qarabag past period and returned to enactment against West Ham, lone to endure what Postecoglou described arsenic a "relapse" which kept him retired for a further 3 matches.

"He had the injury, we brought him backmost and the archetypal crippled backmost helium had a relapse," Postecoglou said. "What we don't privation to bash is enactment him backmost successful that cycle.

"It's precise casual to autumn into that rhythm by pushing players peculiarly erstwhile they're coming backmost from injury. So we're managing his minutes, gathering him up. He got a bully 55 astatine the weekend, helium got 45 past nighttime and hopefully we tin proceed to physique that up.

"But yet for america it's astir making definite we get him backmost and support him back. Because we can't spend immoderate much injuries successful that position.

"We've got Wilson [Odobert] with a semipermanent injury, we've got Richy with a semipermanent injury, we've got Mikey retired present truthful we can't spend to suffer different subordinate successful that country of the park."

Micky van de Ven volition besides miss Sunday's game, with Postecoglou saying the nonstop day of his instrumentality from a hamstring wounded was inactive to beryllium determined.

"It volition beryllium aft the planetary break," helium said. "When aft volition conscionable dictate benignant of his advancement during that time. I deliberation astir apt the extremity of the interruption volition beryllium 4 weeks, truthful erstwhile precisely aft that we’ll person to hold and see."