Roberto De Zerbi has suffered a fresh injury blow as Pedro Porro is now expected to miss a number of Tottenham Hotspur's upcoming games
Roberto De Zerbi has suffered a fresh blow with Pedro Porro expected to be out of action for around a month due to a hamstring injury. That’s according to The Athletic, who are reporting that the centre-back could be out of action until the end of next month.
Porro has already pulled out of the Spain squad for the upcoming games against England, Croatia and the Czech Republic. The defender missed Tottenham’s opening league match against Brentford last month after being granted an extended summer break following Spain's World Cup win.
The 27-year-old picked up the hamstring injury during Saturday’s 3-2 defeat to Aston Villa at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He is now expected to miss the games against Manchester United on October 10 and Coventry City on October 19.
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Nw, according to The Athletic, there is confidence that the World Cup winner will be available for the trip to Chelsea on October 24.
Spurs have slumped to the bottom of the Premier League, with just two points from five matches before the three-week international break.
Andy Robertson has called on his side to forget the past and not get 'panicked' in matches as they look to turn their season around.
“They have had a couple of really tough seasons in terms of finishing in the league,” the defender said on The Overlap’s Stick to Football podcast.
“They have now, to be fair, had to go in the market, they have spent a bit of money, but I do believe Tottenham are now starting a journey.
“Now, I don’t know how far that journey can go, nobody does, but the determination in that group is (there). You can see last season hurt them a lot, and maybe we are still guilty of carrying that weight of last season on our shoulders.
“And that is, I suppose, the message of the manager, first and foremost. And also that kind of falls on me, on the new players – we need to forget. We need to now try and get Tottenham back to where we believe they belong.
“You just see certain moments, like the Liverpool game (3-1 Carabao Cup defeat on September 15), we played so well there in moments, and then you get a goal against you, and it is like (heads down).
“And then we go back to 2-1, and all of a sudden it’s chests out, and everyone’s wanting the ball – and we need that all the time.
“When we played Everton (0-0 draw on September 12), we dominated pretty much the whole game, but we started getting panicked near the end and we started rushing things.”
Robertson added: “I think we just need a little bit of luck, and we need a little bit more of forgetting about the past and (focusing on) how we need to move forward. I do think as the season goes and goes and goes, we will get better and better.”