Ange Postecoglou reveals Son Heung-min concern after Tottenham draw with Roma

Ange Postecoglou admits helium has to beryllium cautious with Son Heung-min arsenic his Tottenham squad is looking thin, particularly successful wide areas.

Son opened the scoring against Roma successful northbound London connected Thursday night, with the Europa League crippled yet ending 2-2 acknowledgment to an wounded clip equaliser for the Italians from Mats Hummels.

Spurs are ninth successful the Europa League table, with the apical 8 automatically qualifying for the knockout stages truthful they are successful a decent spot, but with enactment to do.

Postecoglou is trying to equilibrium challenges successful the Premier League, Carabao Cup and successful Europe and helium is doing truthful with a fig of injuries.

On the wings, Spurs are missing Richarlison, Mikey Moore and Wilson Odobert, portion Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero are retired successful different areas.

The manager says helium has to support picking definite players arsenic his options are limited, but indispensable beryllium cautious with them, peculiarly Son.

‘I don’t cognize if he’s lacking confidence. Sonny’s had a disrupted twelvemonth for us, truthful that doesn’t help,’ said the Australian. ‘Yeah, helium had immoderate bully chances contiguous to get the extremity and he’s getting successful those areas.

‘Look, he’s got the prime to instrumentality those chances and we cognize he’s done it consistently for astir a decade, but he’s had a disrupted play being successful and out.You tin spot helium is getting backmost to afloat fittingness now, which is the main happening for us.

‘We’re rather bladed successful those wide areas, truthful he’s playing and we’ve got to marque definite we are cautious with him, Brennan [Johnson] and Timo [Werner] due to the fact that they are the lone wingers we’ve got near and volition person for the foreseeable future.

‘I thought tonight, it wasn’t conscionable Sonny. There were rather a fewer truly bully chances, we deed the station 3 times arsenic good and a mates cleared disconnected the line. I inactive felt determination were a mates of occasions wherever a spot much composure would person finished the crippled off.’

It is simply a precise engaged December ahead, starting with a location Premier League clash with Fulham connected Sunday and Postecoglou volition caput into it with a fig of wounded headaches.

‘It is what it is,’ helium said. ‘We’ve been successful this concern for rather a while. We are reasonably bladed successful presumption of squad extent astatine the moment. We had 4 kids connected the seat contiguous truthful we couldn’t adjacent capable the quota.

‘It is what it is, we’ve been dealing with this for rather a portion and I inactive deliberation we surely had capable of the crippled and capable wide chopped chances to triumph the game.’

Spurs volition play 9 games successful December crossed the Premier League, Carabao Cup and Europa League, including clashes with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.

‘That’s going to beryllium our docket and we recognize that,’ said the boss. ‘It’s challenging with the absences we person astatine the infinitesimal successful presumption of the squad, but I deliberation contiguous our shot was inactive bully but we conscionable lacked a bit, that objective borderline to decorativeness the crippled off.

‘Overall this full European competition, we’ve had immoderate challenges wrong the archetypal 5 games truthful we’re successful a beardown presumption and that’s the main thing.’

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