Published February 5, 2025 2:25pm Updated February 5, 2025 2:25pm
Mathys Tel and Kevin Danso are successful enactment to marque their Tottenham debuts against Liverpool successful this week’s Carabao Cup semi-final decider.
In a frantic decision to the January transportation window, Tel arrived successful northbound London from Bayern Munich connected indebtedness with the enactment to marque the determination imperishable astatine the extremity of the season.
Arsenal and Manchester United were some funny successful the 19-year-old but it was Spurs who were capable to get the woody implicit the line.
Danso arrived earlier successful the week to boost Tottenham’s battered backine, securing the Austria international’s services having beaten Wolves to his signature.
Tottenham secured a 1-0 triumph implicit Arne Slot’s broadside successful the archetypal limb of their semi-final necktie aboriginal successful January but look a daunting travel to Anfield connected Thursday.
With injuries astatine the backmost and up apical severely limiting Ange Postecoglou’s options, the Tottenham brag volition person some his caller signings disposable connected Merseyside.
Postecoglou said: ‘Kevin [Danso] and Mathys [Tel] are some available, person trained and cleared to play, truthful they’re each good.’
Spurs are without archetypal prime striker Dominic Solanke who is recovering from a genu wounded with Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner and James Maddison among the agelong database of absentees.
Tel, who tin play crossed the beforehand three, volition anticipation to slot consecutive in.
Danso, who joined connected indebtedness from Lens successful a woody that includes an work to bargain this summer, could commencement with Cristian Romero inactive moving his mode backmost to afloat fittingness and Radu Dragusin this week sidelined with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Micky van de Ven made his instrumentality from wounded successful the 3-0 triumph implicit Elfsborg successful the Europa League connected Thursday but was near retired of the squad that bushed Brentford astatine the weekend.
The Netherlands planetary is different who won’t beryllium progressive connected Thursday but Postecoglou insisted the Netherlands helium has not suffered a setback with the nine cautiously managing his instrumentality to action.
‘With Micky, and Romero to a definite extent, I benignant of consciousness we person to beryllium blimpish with them, Postecoglou said.
‘Micky got done the crippled (against Elfsborg past Thursday) alright but I don’t deliberation helium feels acceptable for the measurement up successful strength to the Premier League.
‘After losing Radu, and this is my view, I don’t privation to hazard losing them. The different guys are inching person arsenic well.’
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