Aston Villa host Tottenham in the Premier League on Friday night (7:30pm kick-off)
Ange Postecoglou has joked that he will wrap his players in cotton wool ahead of the Europa League final against Manchester United.
Spurs play Aston Villa on Friday night, before they take on Man United at the San Mames on Wednesday, May 21.
Tottenham’s trip to Villa Park was originally scheduled for Sunday, May 18, but they requested that it be brought forward to have more time to prepare for the final.
Villa objected to their request to move it to the Thursday, but the Premier League still moved it to Friday night, when Man United also play against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Ahead of the final, Postecoglou plans to give more minutes to Son Heung-min, who returned from injury in Spurs’ defeat to Crystal Palace.
Dejan Kulusevski, meanwhile, picked up a knock in the match with Palace, though Postecoglou is hopeful he should be able to feature in the final. Lucas Bergvall and James Maddison, however, are both expected to miss the remainder of the season.
"I don't know if you saw training but we had Reguilon slide tackling Brennan Johnson and they were on the same team! It seems to be how our season has gone,” Postecoglou said.
“You want to protect the integrity of training. Thankfully nothing too serious. We just have to hope and pray to the football gods.
“We've got enough injuries, I'm putting them in cotton wool for the next 10 days.
"From a physical standpoint, [Son] is good. It's important he got some minutes yesterday, more for himself psychologically.
"He had a good session today, but didn't do the whole session because he played yesterday. He feels good and we've got eight or nine days to go. We can build him up.
“We'll get him some minutes on Friday against Villa and if he trains right through he'll be OK.
"He's worked hard to get back. It's a bit of a funny injury. It was just how he progressed and how he felt. Hopefully he kicks on now."
On Kulusevski, he said: "We'll see. He was a bit sore this morning with his knee.
"It looks like a knock at this stage but we're going to let it settle for the next 24 hours and see.
"The initial feeling is it was more of a knock than anything significant. We've obviously lost Madders and Bergvall in the last two weeks.
"Yesterday I had three players to back-up and they were all only going to play 45 minutes — it's sod's law that one of them gets injured.
"So he is important but right now, they're all important. The thing with Deki is that he's missed some football but he was just getting back into it, there were some really promising signs at Bodo.
"He started to show some of that real attacking creativity. Then he gets injured. He is important so fingers crossed he's OK."