Tottenham Hotspur Central Bek Micky van de Ven was a distinguished absence from a team newspaper to face Brentford on Sunday.
The Dutchman missed 22 Spurs games at all competitions after picked up a lower leg injury in October, and his absence coincided with periods outside the team for Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie, among many others.
23-year-old returned to Tottenham’s side for Europa League Win over the Elfsborg in the middle of the week, playing opening 45 minutes before replacing him at halftime by Dragusin.
Dragusin added Spurs’s troubles injuries by driving for 20 minutes to the second half of that game, which believed to many that Van de Ven would start once again for Spurs in West London.
But nowhere was he seen Syringe‘Teamsheet an hour before the start – neither in the starting lineup and on the bench – and Postecoglou explained that his absence was a caution and management of minutes, not injuries.
“We’re just trying to manage his minutes,” Postecoglou said Sky Sports. “It’s a quick turnaround and I talked to a medical team and Micky to give him another week of training to be ready for another week.”
Postecoglou stated before the game that Van de Ven was not ready for a complete slope of his return to the action, saying in his media duties before the match: “Probably not 90 because of a short turn, but last night was really good. It was great that he was out there.
“You know he’s a good player but you don’t realize how good a player is up to [he’s not there]. I suppose this is the case with all our players who have been missing for a long time. It is not only an impact they have individually, but also the impact they have on the group. “
Tottenham started the game with an impressive teenageer Archie Gray, who was together with Ben Davies in the central defense, and the new signature of Kevin Danso did not fulfill the conditions for his first appearance at the club.
Austrian joined the lens loan With the obligation to buy, and Postecoglou was obviously pleased that he secured a 26-year-old: “It’s great, I think Kevin will be great for us, we were briefly in his back, he experienced, a good defender one on one and, again, I said again before the new players give us energy. “
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