Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou was hesitant to go into detail about the return time for some of his Tottenham players.
Postecoglou has been without the likes of James Maddison, Micky Van de Ven and more recently Rodrigo Bentancur in what has been a troublesome season injury wise for Spurs.
Ange was keen to not give out too much information about his star’s progression to full fitness.
Hard to say. They are both in rehab and neither of them are anywhere near training with the first team at the moment. If you look at timelines, Micky and Madders did it in pretty much in the same game”, said Postecoglou.
“Micky might be just ahead of schedule in terms of with Madders. Both kind of January and Bentancur fairly similar. It is not about trying to not give out information, these things kind of either accelerate or get delayed when you get into the final phase. Until I see them out with us, it’s hard for me to say.”
Yves Bissouma received a second red card of the campaign against Nottingham Forest. It was the fourth Tottenham red card of the season.
Bissouma will now be suspended for four matches, and given his involvement at AFCON, it is likely he will not feature for Spurs for a long while.
Postecoglou said he was not concerned about his side’s discipline.
“No not really. Obviously it is something that is not great for us as it is costing us during games, it is costing us post-games”, said the Spurs boss.
“Players are well aware of the kind of impact those things have and I’m sure they will learn from those experiences. My experience in football is that the best remedy for those kind of things is players missing out.
“If they feel they are missing out on something then it brings them into line pretty quickly. Hopefully we keep winning and the guys who miss out learn their lesson that way.”
