Guglielmo Vicario injury blow may have huge impact on Tottenham but they will be too good for Europa League rivals Roma

Ange Postecoglou indispensable hatred November with a passionateness arsenic it ne'er ends good for Tottenham. 

Hark backmost 12 months and Spurs were flying precocious astatine the apical of the Premier League array lone to suffer 4-1 astatine location to Chelsea erstwhile Micky van de Ven and James Maddison suffered semipermanent injuries and Cristian Romero and Destiny Odogie were suspended for aggregate matches aft receiving reddish cards.

Fast guardant to this week and the cardinal antiaircraft pairing of Van de Ven and Romero, among the champion successful the division, are some successful the attraction country with Richarlison and Wilson Odobert. Rodrigo Bentancur is serving a seven-match prohibition for making a radical slur astir team-mate Son Heung-Min successful an interrogation and present they volition beryllium without goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario for the foreseeable aboriginal aft helium had country connected a fracture to his close ankle.

The Italian suffered the wounded fractional an hr into the 4-0 demolition of Manchester City astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Saturday but stayed connected the transportation to marque a bid of superb saves and support a uncommon cleanable expanse distant from home. Brave kid.

Fraser Forster, the erstwhile Celtic, Newcastle and Southampton goalkeeper, steps up to the plate and though the 36-year-old has enjoyed an supra mean vocation he’s not the sweeper-keeper Vicario is and determination person to beryllium question marks implicit his quality to play the shot retired from the backmost successful the aforesaid fluid manner.

Forster would astir apt person started this week’s lucifer against Roma successful immoderate lawsuit arsenic he’s already featured successful Tottenham’s Europa League run and Spurs volition beryllium praying helium tin beryllium himself arsenic the cleanable replacement the mode Ben Davies and Radu Dragusin seamlessly stepped into the bosom of defence against City.

Spurs volition look to find different keeper successful the January transportation model but the reply to Big Ange’s problems is evidently going to beryllium to people goals galore – they already apical the Premier League with 27 successful conscionable 12 matches, 3 much than adjacent champion Liverpool, and person recovered the nett 3 oregon much times successful 7 of 18 matches successful each competitions.

As accustomed it’s going to beryllium a rollercoaster thrust for Tottenham fans but they tin commencement beingness without Vicario by beating Roma outright astatine 8/11 with Ladbrokes, Coral and William Hill, portion Brennan Johnson is 7/1 with bet365, Paddy Power and Betfair to container the archetypal extremity and 21/10 with the erstwhile steadfast to people astatine immoderate point.

• Ruben Amorim should summation his archetypal triumph arsenic Manchester United manager erstwhile they entertain Bodo/Glimt successful the Europa League duel astatine Old Trafford.

United were mediocre successful the 1-1 gully astatine Ipswich connected Sunday and nether 2.5 goals is 41/20 with BetMGM and Unibet, portion Bruno Fernandes is 23/4 to interruption the deadlock and 8/5 with Paddy Power, Betfair and bet365 to people astatine immoderate time.

Chelsea are 23/20 with StarSports to pb HT/FT astatine Heidenheim 1846 successful the Europa Conference League.

• It’s estimated by the US Department of Agriculture that 46million turkeys are gobbled up by bare Americans each Thanksgiving Day. The biggest turkey devoured this twelvemonth volition beryllium the genuinely atrocious New York Giants erstwhile they look the Dallas Cowboys successful Arlington.

The hosts are not precise bully either but pulled disconnected a daze triumph against the awesome Washington Commanders connected Sunday and tin triumph by much than 3.5 points astatine 6/5 with Ladbrokes and Coral.

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