Antonio Conte makes major Everton admission as…

Antonio Conte makes major Everton admission as Tottenham suffer huge injury blow

Antonio Conte has described Everton as a 'good team' and revealed Dejan Kulusevski will miss tomorrow evening’s game due to injury.

Everton head to the capital after an underwhelming performance against Manchester United last time out. The Blues lost 2-1 at Goodison Park last Sunday despite taking the lead through Alex Iwobi.

The Blues have picked up 10 points from their opening nine games of the season and Conte believes Frank Lampard is showing the Premier League just how good a manager he is. While the Spurs boss also believes his side’s win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday night must be taken into consideration as well ahead of tomorrow's game.

He said: “Everton is a really good team, with a really good manager, because Frank Lampard is showing to be a good manager.

“He had a really important experience with Chelsea. And now he is working very well with Everton. They started the season so-so, but now I think they reached a good stability.

“They have a good balance and they’re showing great solidity, especially defensively. We have to pay great attention, to attack in the right way and the game won’t be easy.

“And we played only two days ago. And I think we lost a lot of mental energy. Because Champions League is a fantastic competition to play, but at the same time, you lose a lot of energy in this competition.

“But we are ready. And we prepared the game today. I think we are ready to play a good game. It will be very important, the support of our fans, in our stadium. Because in the past, our fans pushed us a lot. They gave us a special push.”

Conte has also confirmed that his side will be without Kulusevski for the game. The 22-year-old has been sidelined since the international break with a hamstring injury he picked up playing for Sweden.

"We are the same players of the last game. Deki is still not available for the game against Everton. The rest of the players are ok," he said.

"I think we need to have a bit of patience with him. Don’t take stupid risks. Because we have to play a lot of games from now until November.

"It will be very important to recover him very well. At this moment, he’s not 100% sure to be really fit, to be in perfect physical condition. For this reason it’s good to respect the opinion of the doctors of the players."

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