The three Spurs players that have been particularly burnt out | OneFootball

We all know that the few Tottenham Hotspur players who have not picked up an injury this season have been ran into the ground. They are having to play two high intensity games every week without any rotation, and more often than not play the whole 90 minutes each time too.

Three Spurs players who have particularly been ran into the ground

Three players in particular who have been worked extremely hard are; Archie Gray, Pedro Porro, and Dejan Kulusevski. As per Matt Law, those three players have all played more than 1,700 minutes in all competitions since the 22nd of November, which is more than any other Premier League player in that time.

All three players are regular for their countries too (England U21s for Gray), and were playing plenty of football before that date too. At the start of the season, Gray was playing a bit less, but Kulusevski and Porro have been constants pretty much all season.

So far this campaign, Kulusevski has played 3,389 minutes for club and country, Porro has played 3,219 minutes, and Gray has played 2,780 minutes. For context, if you played every single minute of a Premier League season, you would play 3,420 minutes. So, Kulusevski is half an hour away from completing a full league season - in mid February. Porro not far behind that too.

Then, for an 18-year old, that is still an awful lot of minutes for Gray, particularly with virtually all of them being out of position. Him and Kulusevski have arguably been Spurs' two best players this season, despite the lack of rest. Although Porro has not been as good, and has had some poor games - you do have to appreciate some of his performances and creativity given that he is running on empty.

It has been reported recently that Ange is set to have a number of players back (although for how long, who knows). One is said to be Destiny Udogie. Having him back would allow Ange to try a pairing of the Italian at left-back, and Djed Spence at right-back, and thus allowing Porro to be rested.

Two of the other players mentioned were Brennan Johnson and James Maddison, both of which could help give Kulusevski a rest. After some top performances in central midfield, the Sweden international has played more on the right again recently, with Johnson injured. Having the Welshman back fit would help in that regard.

Then, having Maddison in midfield would give Spurs more creativity. If it was just Johnson back, you would feel there would still be too much burden on Kulusevski to be the creator in midfield, but having Maddison back would massively help that.

Unfortunately, Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven were not on the list of players mentioned as set to be returning, and we know Radu Dragusin has suffered an ACL injury, so it could be a while before Gray gets rested, or at least moved back to midfield. There is the possibility that Ange goes with a duo of Kevin Danso and Ben Davies, but we will see.