Tottenham have injury crisis before Ajax semi-final
Things never get any easier for Tottenham Hotspur. Now having reached the Champions League semi-final the club is having to deal with serious injuries before the match has even occurred.
Moussa Sissoko has been ruled out of the Ajax match with a groin injury. He will not be able to play and neither will Harry Kane. Hugo Lloris and Harry Winks are also injured but there’s chance that they recover in time. Then in addition to that Heung Min-Son is also ruled out of the match through suspension.
Things are genuinely only ever getting more difficult for Tottenham and it is one of the most troubling things for the side. They are a good club and deserve the success that they are having at the moment but something of this snakebit curse does seem to stick with them at all times. They are one of the most talented sides left in the competition but also one of the thinnest and they have to have all of their players in order to succeed.
The injury to Harry Kane is one that Tottenham oddly seem able to sustain this season. Though it makes no sense perhaps it is the overwhelming sense of calamity that comes with it in fact that makes the team play even better. The injury to Sissoko though is worrying.
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In the match against Ajax it will be the midfield who make the biggest difference. The Dutch side are so talented through the middle that the battle will be won and lost in that very place. The more peripheral players will at times even appear to simply be watching.
What Tottenham will need then is for the Eric Dier of last year or the year before to arrive and play to an excellent level. He will have to find both his inner Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick with the addition of Claude Makelele if Tottenham are to stand a chance. That then doesn’t negate the fact that Dele Alli will need to have one of those matches where he again proves to be England’s best young talent outside of Raheem Sterling and well Christian Eriksen will need to put on the sort of show the makes Real Madrid all that more hungry for his signature.
Tottenham’s injuries will need to be fought through. Though things are easy to understand and injuries are one of the things that people look past at times in order to do something historic these are also the sort of things that must be triumphed over. Tottenham must find their mettle now.