Tottenham Hotspur’s rotten luck with injuries continues.
Spurs have had an awful campaign, and the biggest reason behind their issues on the pitch has been injuries to key players.
Ange Postecoglou has had to do without many of his men for large parts of the season, and there is now a new addition to his injury list.
Dejan Kulusevski has undergone surgery and is now set to miss Tottenham’s Europa League final clash against Manchester United in Bilbao.
Guglielmo Vicario sends a message to Dejan Kulusevski after his injury
Kulusevski has arguably been Tottenham’s best player this season.
The Swede was Spurs’ standout performer in the first half of the campaign. He was magnificent in the number 10 role – some would say he was even better than James Maddison there.
Postecoglou will now have to do without Kulusevski for the Europa League final after the attacker underwent surgery on Wednesday.
To make things worse for the Tottenham boss, Maddison is also ruled out of the final, while it is very likely that Lucas Bergvall will miss the game in Bilbao as well.
After news came out that Kulusevski had undergone surgery, Guglielmo Vicario took to his Instagram Story to send a message to his teammate.
“The family is going to miss you, and we will fight for you. See you soon on the pitch, philosopher,” Vicario wrote along with a picture of himself alongside Kulusevski and Pape Matar Sarr.
Ange Postecoglou’s options to replace Dejan Kulusevski
Tottenham have a serious problem going into the Europa League final after Kulusevski’s injury.
The fact that the Swede is sidelined at the same time as Maddison and Bergvall has further complicated things for Postecoglou.
The most sensible solution would be to bring Pape Matar Sarr into the side and start him along with Yves Bissouma and Rodrigo Bentancur.
The other option would be to start Wilson Odobert as a number 10. Postecoglou experimented with that against Crystal Palace and claimed after the game that the Frenchman had played there before.
Odobert would definitely be the more exciting option, but we think Postecoglou will go with Sarr because he is more experienced.