There cannot possible be a single franchise in professional sports that has had worse luck with injuries over the past two seasons, and it feels like every other week, Tottenham Hotspur are suffering another major injury.
Dejan Kulusevski, Mohammed Kudus, James Maddison, and Rodrigo Bentancur have all been out for months, and Lucas Bergvall only just returned from an injury of his own. Spurs continue to reel with some of their biggest stars missing significant chunks of time, and many of them just don't quite look right for several games after coming back, including Bergvall and Destiny Udogie this past week.
Now, Tottenham have to worry about an injury to their biggest current attacking player and one of the only two players consistently showing up at a high level this past few weeks, Mathys Tel (the other is Archie Gray, in case you were wondering).
Mathys Tel is hurt
Tel, as relayed by Football.London's Alasdair Gold, was forced to withdraw from international duty with the French national team this week just days after starting the break due to a thigh injury. It appeared he initially tweaked his thigh over the weekend in the loss to Nottingham Forest, as he was hooked off in the 3-0 draw with an apparent injury. At least, that can be the only real explanation for him coming off, as he was the only real bright spot in a horrendous attack, especially with how badly striker Dominic Solanke was playing.
The injury to Tel does not seem to be a serious one, and since he was already questionably hurt against Nottingham Forest, it would have been akin to malpractice for the French national team to let a young man in the middle of a relegation crisis potentially get reps in with an injured muscle in his thigh.
Tottenham Hotspur can only hope Mathys Tel is back and at 100 percent after the March international break concludes, because they cannot afford to have him missing a single second of time. He is the one guy in this attack who is reliably creating chances, beating defenders, and showing real effort every week, because Solanke and Randal Kolo Muani sure as heck are not doing that - and Xavi Simons and Richarlison aren't even playing every minute. Tel's injury is the latest potential blow for Spurs to worry about at the worst possible time they even want to think about any new injuries.