Latest Tottenham injury news as three miss Crystal Palace with double boost after Fulham

Tottenham injury news with two players returning for Ange Postecoglou against Fulham ahead of Crystal Palace on Friday

It’s all coming up Tottenham Hotspur right now. Ange Postecoglou’s men are back at the top of the table, they can extend the lead to five points before any of their rivals are in action again and the squad is getting strong. It could hardly be going much better.

“That’s probably the worst sort of 45 minutes with the ball we’ve had all year,” the head coach said at full-time th

when speaking of the second half. “With the ball we were nowhere near the levels we have been all year,” he said. Vic made a few outstanding saves in the end to preserve a clean sheet, so we must be careful to maintain our focus. We ought to have controlled the game far better than we did in that situation.

Given that practically everything else is going Spurs’ way and doing so at a canter, it is something they should concentrate on.At the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday, goals from Son Heung-Min and James Maddison, among others, secured the 2-0 victory to return them to the top, and the impression is that the team is only going to get better.

This team is not just relatively inexperienced—of the 11 players who have played more than 500 minutes in the league so far, only three are 27 or older, and four are 24 or younger—but it has also yet to attain peak fitness. Spurs are still far from reaching their peak performance even with Ivan Perisic and new summer addition Manor Solomon out injured.

With Brennan Johnson returning to the bench for the second half and making his third appearance, there was some good news on the injury front against Fulham.Postecoglou had stated before the game, “We’ll see how he goes in the next couple of days,” but the fact that he was deemed fit enough to play is unquestionably encouraging.

Johnson’s season has gotten off to a rocky start because he didn’t have much of a summer to prepare and because he arrived in north London with a niggle. Now that two of his colleagues are out injured, he can attempt to capitalize on the unpleasant situation by giving the attackers proper competition.

Despite a lengthy flight from South America, Giovani Lo Celso was also listed on the bench. Cristian Romero and Richarlison both participated, and the additional few days of recuperation were important to their recovery. With a quick trip to Crystal Palace on Friday night across the capital, Spurs’ turnaround time is suddenly more limited.

Rodrigo Bentancur should be able to continue his own steady return to fitness as a result. Although the Uruguayan is making good progress, he isn’t yet prepared to return as a player. The manager said, “We’ll be careful with him,” prior to the Fulham encounter.

He is now sort of engaged in the entire training session because he is sort of thoroughly trained. He has been introduced to training gradually over the past month, and he has done well. He is currently in full training.

We must be aware that he has missed a lot of football, but when he works out with the first team more over the coming weeks, I believe we’ll be able to select our moment. He is doing well in training, and it was nice to have him here for the previous few weeks so that he could fully integrate with the other men. We are looking forward to his return.

He still seems to be a few weeks away, so the most logical assumption would be for him to show up after the upcoming international break in the middle of November.Bryan Gil, who has yet to appear in his first game of the season, was a reserve for the second game.

“He can be really important for us,” the Spurs boss said of the Spanish attacker before the game. “He’s one like I

mentioned that having him just work extremely hard at training over the past couple of weeks has been fantastic. He has been out for the entirety of this campaign, and it has been well-documented that we lost Ivan and Manor, who play the left wing position.It’s excellent for us that Bryan is healthy and available once more.

He’s, I suppose, in the same situation as everyone else since he’ll eventually be presented with an opportunity, and it will be up to him to take it. He unquestionably possesses the qualifications and abilities to play in that position for us, and as I previously mentioned, his training is improving now that he is a member of the team, so I’m confident he will get the chance.

“We’ve got a Monday night game and then we back it up with a Friday night game, so we’ll probably need a good deal of the squad to do those two games in the next five or six days.” Gil might return to the minutes the following week if the situation permits.

What this does leave for Postecoglou is a slightly deeper team that is on the verge of being strengthened in the upcoming weeks, especially with Yves Bissouma also ready to return from his one-game suspension.