Injuries have hit Tottenham hard in recent weeks and left Antonio Conte with limited options in certain positions on the pitch. Always going to have absent players to contend with over the course of the season, they all seem to have come at once in attack.
Without Dejan Kulusevski for the past ten games after he sustained a hamstring issue on Sweden international duty in September, Richarlison has missed five games through a calf problem and Lucas Moura only returned to action midway through October after a two-month absence. Spurs' woes were compounded even further on Tuesday evening in Marseille with Son Heung-min now needing surgery to stabilise a fracture around his left eye after receiving a blow to his face in an aerial challenge.
Those in the Tottenham treatment room have been joined by Cristian Romero of late, with the Argentina international missing three of the team's last four games. Confirming that the player's absence against Newcastle United was down to muscle fatigue in his calf, Conte told football.london ahead of the Bournemouth match that he took a "big, big risk" playing the 24-year-old in the Champions League tie against Sporting CP.
