Spurs: Conte dealt huge Kulusevski blow

Tottenham Hotspur have been dealt an enormous harm blow relating to winger Dejan Kulusevski.

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Talking in his pre-match press convention (by way of BBC Sport), Antonio Conte revealed that, regardless of the Italian beforehand hinting the winger was nearing a return to full health, the 22-year-old might now be dominated out of motion till after the Qatar World Cup – having suffered an obvious setback in his restoration from a thigh harm.

Concerning the present situation of the Sweden worldwide, the 53-year-old mentioned: “I feel we have now to attend a little bit of time to see him with us. Yeah [I am worried] as a result of his restoration was going effectively after which sooner or later the scenario worsened.

“Then when one of these scenario occurs, you need to restart. You want time, however we have now the medical division to face harm conditions and so they have to resolve the scenario in a brief interval as a result of you realize in case you are good to resolve the scenario in a brief interval, it means factors within the desk.”

Horrible information

Contemplating simply how integral part of the Tottenham facet Kulusevski has turn out to be following his January transfer to north London, the truth that the ahead might be dominated out of motion till the flip of the 12 months is undoubtedly horrible information for Conte and his facet.

Certainly, over his 18 Premier League fixtures in his debut marketing campaign with Spurs, the £70m-rated winger was in astonishing kind, scoring 5 targets, offering eight assists and creating six large probabilities for his teammates, in addition to taking a median of 1.4 photographs, making 1.4 key passes and finishing 1.4 dribbles per recreation.

These returns noticed the 22-year-old common a merely sensational SofaScore match score of 7.21, not solely rating him as Conte’s fourth-best performer within the league but in addition because the 25th-best participant within the high flight of English soccer as a complete final time period.

The £110k-per-week flanker has as soon as once more caught the attention over his seven Premier League appearances in 2022/23, having already scored one objective, registered three assists and created two large probabilities, with these returns seeing the attacker common a formidable SofaScore match score of 6.91 – rating him as Spurs’ 11th-best performer within the division.

Moreover, with Richarlison additionally at the moment sidelined because of injury, in addition to Lucas Moura not being totally match-fit after his restoration from a tendon injury, Kulusevski’s absence leaves Conte with no pure choice to deploy alongside Harry Kane and Son Heung-min in his three-man assault – one thing that proved extremely expensive within the loss to Manchester United final trip.

As such, it’s clear to see that being with out the Swede for a prolonged interval will come as an enormous blow to Spurs’ probabilities of occurring to safe a top-four end this season – to not point out choosing up all three factors in opposition to a formidable Newcastle United facet on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon.