Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou makes Micky van de Ven fitness admission

It is the latest stroke successful Tottenham’s wounded ravaged season.

On Friday, Postecoglou revealed nary of his 11 first-team players presently retired injured would retrieve successful clip for Sunday’s FA Cup 4th circular travel to Aston Villa.

“No, Micky astir apt is going to beryllium a spot of a dilatory burner,” helium said.

“The ones who are decidedly adjacent are guys similar [Guglielmo] Vicario, Destiny [Udogie], Wilson [Odobert], Madders [James Maddison], Brennan [Johnson] astatine a stretch.

“They should each beryllium backmost by midweek adjacent week successful presumption of training, oregon the week after. Over the adjacent 2 weeks, they should each beryllium available.”

Spurs are languishing successful 14th spot successful the Premier League, truthful hopes of silverware remainder with the Europa League oregon FA Cup pursuing the 4-1 aggregate decision to Liverpool successful the Carabao Cup semi-finals.

Postecoglou was asked whether his team’s play hinges connected the effect astatine Villa Park connected Sunday.

“No, due to the fact that we’ve got different games afterwards,” helium said. “Once again, I don’t deliberation astir what I bash successful those senses. People volition ever effort to make a script wherever determination is immoderate benignant of melodramatic event.

“The world of it is, accidental we triumph Sunday, what does that mean? That we tin spell successful against Manchester United the pursuing week and accidental good we conscionable won the biggest crippled of the year, truthful that’s OK?

“I don’t judge that. But I get wherefore radical speech successful that mode due to the fact that it means if we’re not successful, ‘OK, good what does that mean for the manager, for the team, for our season?’ I get that radical privation the play astir it.”

He continued: “The world of it is that we person an important crippled connected Sunday that we privation to triumph to enactment successful the competition. Then we person an important crippled the pursuing Sunday [against Manchester United successful the Premier League]. So thing is season-defining until you get to the end.”