Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur: Injury news affecting both Eddie Howe and Thomas Frank’s squads ahead of tonight’s Premier League meeting.
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Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur lock horns once again at St James’ Park tonight, but both managers have a number of injury concerns to deal with. Eddie Howe will be without a couple of long-term injured players, whilst there are doubts over the fitness of Nick Pope and Emil Krafth.
Thomas Frank, meanwhile, is likely to be without five first-team players as Spurs look to banish the demons of their 2-1 defeat at home to Fulham at the weekend. Frank’s side were beaten 2-0 on Tyneside in the Carabao Cup back in October and haven’t won a match at St James’ Park in over four years.
Here, we take a look at the latest injury news affecting both camps ahead of tonight’s clash between Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur tonight.
Tottenham Hotspur injury news v Newcastle United
Dominic Solanke - out
Solanke enjoys a very good goalscoring record against Newcastle United and netted at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in January during the last league meeting between the sides. However, the former Bournemouth man is highly unlikely to feature tonight.
James Maddison - out
Maddison has been ruled-out for the majority, if not all, of the season after suffering an ACL injury in pre-season. The former Leicester City man picked up the injury during Spurs’ 1-1 draw with Newcastle United in South Korea in August.
Dejan Kulusevski - out
Kulusevski hasn’t featured for Spurs since their Europa League final win over Manchester United in May. The Swedish international winger remains sidelined and won’t feature tonight.
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Radu Dragusin - out
Dragusin has been out since March with an ACL injury. He will not feature at St James’ Park tonight.
Yves Bissouma - out
Bissouma picked up an ankle injury whilst on international duty with Mali in October. He won’t feature on Tyneside tonight.
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur injury news
Kieran Trippier - out
Trippier has not been named in either of Newcastle United’s last three matchday squads after suffering a hamstring injury. Howe revealed last weekend that it would be a ‘few weeks’ before the defender returns to action.
Will Osula - out
An ankle injury has kept Osula sidelined since before the international break. He hasn’t been seen in action since coming on against West Ham at the London Stadium.
“He certainly won't be involved tomorrow night.,” Howe said when asked about Osula’s fitness ahead of the clash with Spurs. “We need to have further discussions internally to see quite what's happening with his ankle, because it's not going in a straight line.”
Yoane Wissa - out
Wissa is closing in on making his Newcastle United debut, but the clash against Tottenham Hotspur will come too soon for the former Brentford man. He is back in training and has played in some 11-a-side training matches. He won’t head to the African Cup of Nations with DR Congo later this month and is closing in on a return to action.
Emil Krafth - doubt
Krafth travelled with his teammates to Marseille last week, but was not named in Howe’s matchday squad. He didn’t feature against Manchester City last weekend, nor was he named in Howe’s matchday squad for their trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday either.
Nick Pope - doubt
Pope missed Saturday’s win with a groin injury. He has been sent for a scan, but Howe didn’t have an update on the goalkeeper when he spoke to the media on Monday morning.
“No further update from Saturday,” Howe said. “Again, he's probably one of a number of players that we'll analyse early this week and then try and get a proper diagnosis.”