Tottenham give injury update on Son Heung-min ahead of Aston Villa clash

Callum McAvoyPublished Nov 1, 2024, 1:27pm|Updated Nov 1, 2024, 1:31pm

Ange Postecoglou says that Son Heung-min should beryllium ‘okay’ to play successful Tottenham’s large Premier League lucifer against Aston Villa connected Sunday.

The Spurs skipper has missed the past 3 games with a thigh issue, with Postecoglou antecedently stating that helium was aiming to beryllium acceptable successful clip for the Villa clash.

Tottenham person had mixed results successful Son’s absence, beating AZ successful the Europa League and Manchester City successful the Carabao Cup but losing astatine struggling Crystal Palace successful the Premier League past Sunday.

The South Korea prima has 3 goals and 2 assists successful conscionable six league appearances truthful acold this play and with the nine lagging down successful eighth successful the table, they’ll privation him backmost for specified a large game.

Villa are 4th successful the array and caput to northbound London with an outstanding distant record: 5 wins, 1 gully and nary defeats crossed each competitions truthful far.

Postecoglou volition truthful beryllium relieved that his skipper was backmost successful grooming connected Friday and says that providing thing goes incorrect helium should beryllium available.

‘Sonny has trained today, truthful if helium gets done grooming time helium should beryllium okay,’ the manager said successful his pre-match property conference.

But Tottenham person different wounded worries to woody with, notably archetypal prime centre-back duo Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, some of whom hobbled disconnected injured during the 2-1 triumph implicit City connected Wednesday night.

Van de Ven near the transportation successful tears, appearing to person suffered a hamstring wounded and having missed 16 games past play acknowledgment to hamstring injuries, fans person been fearing the worst.

Thankfully for them, it seems that portion the Dutch defender volition miss the Villa game, helium won’t beryllium retired for excessively long.

‘Main 1 is Micky, helium has benignant of strained his hamstring. It’s not excessively serious, but astir apt aft the planetary interruption for him,’ Postecoglou added.

‘He was truly looking guardant to the game, truthful helium was emotional. At slightest it’s not a atrocious 1 similar past clip that kept him retired for rather a while.

‘Romero, [Timo] Werner. At the moment, inactive a accidental for the weekend.’

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