James Maddison has spent the majority of the season recovering from injury and the Tottenham Hotspur star has spoken about one area the club have to investigate
James Maddison has called for Tottenham Hotspur to explore potential reasons behind the club’s injury record this season.
Spurs narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League on Sunday after claiming a 1-0 win over Everton in their final match of the season.
Roberto De Zerbi was appointed by Tottenham in March and successfully guided Tottenham to safety, with the club finishing in 17th place and two points above the drop zone, as West Ham were relegated to the Championship.
Maddison made a substitute appearance for Tottenham in the win over the Toffees, in what was his third cameo from the bench since recovering from a serious knee injury he picked up during pre-season last summer.
Spurs have been forced to deal with several injury concerns throughout the season, with Cristian Romero, Dejan Kulusevski, Xavi Simons, Mohammed Kudus, Wilson Odobert and Ben Davies all absent from the squad that beat Everton.
Maddison was only able to feature in the final three matches of the season, while Rodrigo Bentancur, Dominic Solanke, Radu Dragusin, and Lucas Bergvall also spending time on the sidelines through injury this term.
Maddison has explained why he believes Tottenham have had it the worst when it comes to injuries at Premier League clubs this season, and has called for Spurs to look into the potential reasons why.
"Our situation with the injuries has been worse than any other club," Maddison told reporters following Tottenham’s win over Everton.
"People try and say, 'Oh, but we've got this and that'. But ours is astronomical and we need to look at why that is.
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"Sometimes it can just be unlucky, sometimes it can be a coincidence, like me doing my ACL or (Dejan) Kulusevski getting a horrendous knock off [Marc] Guehi.
"That's not the medical team, that's not the pitch or all the theories that you see, sometimes that's rubbish.
"We've been a bit unlucky. But like I said, the big names that we've missed, it does affect you and you can't just deny that.
"If we had had myself, Kulusevski and [Mohammed] Kudus, and [Rodrigo] Bentancur missed three months and whatnot. If you had had them for the whole season, we wouldn't have been in this situation, I strongly believe.
"That's just not me being naive, that's just a fact. But it is the situation we find ourselves in, and I am just proud of the lads to dig deep today."