Postecoglou gives mixed injury update on Tottenham pair after Chelsea loss
Tottenham honchos Ange Postecoglou has debunked that Micky van de Ven languished a “meaty” injury during their 4-1 defeat to Chelsea on Monday.
Energizes had two gamers sent off in their home match versus the Blue funks as they languished their initially loss of the Premier League season.
The 9 males of Tottenham manipulated to hold out at 1-1 until the 75th minute using Nicolas Jackson racking upwards a late hat-approach to lug out the scoreline relaxing.
In the middle of the chaos Energizes in addition languished two injuries using both Van de Ven and James Maddison – that have been two of their flawless gamers this season – hopping off the marketplace in the guideline of the expire of the initially fifty percent.
Van de Ven fingered his hamstring while racing Chelsea demonstrator Jackson for the ball, while Maddison went down in the box without call previously vacating the marketplace.
Presenting an modernize on Maddison’s injury, Postecoglou asserted: “He obtained a knock on the ankle joint, we were down one male already. It lended sense to lug out a couple of readjusts at that point.”
Yet the elucidations did not solid so sound for Van de Ven, the Tottenham honchos incorporated: “It’s also early. With Micky it’s a pretty meaty one.”
In stark comparison to Arsenal honchos Mikel Arteta – that recognized to label a VAR verdict over the weekend a “disgrace” – Postecoglou took a calmer approach in his post-match interview.
The Tottenham honchos prompted that bossies can’t linger to “regret about detrimental resolutions every week” and that they have to start to “welcome the umpire’s verdict”.
“Verdicts are resolutions: you either welcome it or you don’t,” Postecoglou told Heavens Sports.
“Some of it is self-wreaked (yet) if we are attending go out and regret about detrimental resolutions every week what will distinctly comply with is what took place today: a forensic study of every verdict.
“I assume that’s the means the game is going. I don’t favor it – I can be a lone voice as I’m told that’s the means onward. With VAR treatment it simply fingered favor most stomaching approximately.
“Sooner or later we have to welcome the umpire’s verdict. This unending erosion of umpires’ authority, this is what the game is attending derive: they will distinctly not have any kind of authority, it is attending derive palliated and we are attending be in the readjust of a individual a couple of miles away tailing a TV sport.”