Cristian Stellini has admitted that the amount of players in the treatment room at present is making it difficult for him to make key changes to his Tottenham team. Already without Richarlison, Yves Bissouma, Emerson Royal, Rodrigo Bentancur, Ben Davies and Ryan Sessegnon through injury, Spurs will now have Lucas Moura in the stands for Saturday's game against Brighton & Hove Albion following his dismissal in the draw at Everton.
In a similar boat to last season when Antonio Conte had a limited number of experienced players to call upon from a rather youthful substitutes' bench, Stellini has said that the players that are currently available to play cannot necessarily help change Tottenham tactically. The injuries have also stopped Spurs from using a system that they had been working on over the past month.
"At the moment nothing special because we don't have enough players because we have a lot of injuries and it doesn’t allow us to change anything tactically," admitted the Italian in his pre-match press conference. "We’ve been preparing for a system in the last month but the injury situation means we can not use it so we have to calm down now and we have to be patient and lucid.
