Tottenham lose Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson for 'weeks' as injury crisis worsens again

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·19 janvier 2025

Tottenham lose Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson for 'weeks' as injury crisis worsens again

Spurs were missing 10 senior players for latest defeat at Everton, with only one potentially due back soon

Ange Postecoglou has revealed that Tottenham forwards Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson are facing weeks on the sidelines as the club's injury crisis worsened.

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Solanke and Johnson were among 10 first-team players missing through injury as Postecoglou's side extended their dreadful run in the Premier League to one win in 10 matches with a 3-2 defeat at Everton, for which the head coach took responsibility.

Solanke suffered a knee injury in training which is likely to keep him out for "a few weeks" and Johnson is set to be sidelined for up to a month with a calf strain sustained in the midweek defeat to rivals Arsenal.

"It's a pretty extreme situation, we've lost three players, significant players since the last game and we've already got seven or eight out," said Postecoglou, who was also without midfielder Yves Bissouma on Merseyside due to a knock.

"Obviously we lost Dom really late yesterday in training, something innocuous, so it's just the run we're on at the moment, the situation we're in.

"At some point that will change, we'll get some players back, but right now it's just the situation we're dealt and the responsibility lies squarely with me to try to get us out of it.

"[Solanke's injury] was just one of these things and he just sort of went to shoot on his own and sort of twisted it, so we don't think it's serious, but probably a few weeks at this stage from what I've heard.

"[With Johnson] it's probably three or four weeks, he did it in the second half against Arsenal the other night. So yeah, we're looking at three to four weeks. Biss was a knock, we're hoping that he should be right by next weekend.

"We had 11 or 12 missing today and we've got to see how Rodri's [Rodrigo Bentancur] going through the [concussion] protocols. Apart from him, no one else is really due to come back.

"We've got a European game on Thursday, we obviously can't use Djed [Spence] or [Sergio] Reguilon in that, so we're in this situation."