Ange Postecoglou confirms Rodrigo Bentancur timeline after Tottenham midfielder's "distressing" head injury

Tottenham Hotspur caput manager Ange Postecoglou has delivered a reassuring update connected the information of Rodrigo Bentancur pursuing the midfielder's worrying caput wounded against Liverpool.

Play was stopped for 10 minutes successful Wednesday's EFL Cup semi-final archetypal leg, arsenic Bentancur dived to caput the shot from a country but landed incredibly awkwardly connected the turf.

Teammates and aesculapian unit rapidly rushed to the Uruguayan's assistance portion helium laic motionless connected the floor, and helium was yet loaded onto a stretcher to lukewarm applause from some sets of supporters.

Spurs ended up prevailing 1-0 successful the archetypal limb courtesy of a Lucas Bergvall winner, though the Bentancur incidental somewhat overshadowed Tottenham's success, particularly fixed their pre-existing wounded crisis.

However, speaking to Tottenham's media channels connected Friday up of Sunday's FA Cup travel to Tamworth, Postecoglou confirmed that Bentancur had not sustained thing much terrible than a concussion and should beryllium backmost aft a mates of weeks.

Postecoglou: 'Bentancur is good and feeling good'

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"Good news. He was successful infirmary obviously, they did each the tests, conscionable making definite everything is okay, and each good," Postecoglou said. "He's backmost home, he's fine, he's feeling good. We travel the protocols now, a mates of weeks wherever you conscionable person to marque definite everything's okay. Looks similar a concussion but thing much than that.

"It's ever distressing, particularly Pedro [Porro], who was the archetypal 1 determination and knew it was a distressing situation, but I thought the lads handled it good and the aesculapian squad handled it well."

Bentancur volition apt miss 4 Tottenham matches arsenic helium completes his two-week betterment period, starting with the FA Cup third-round brushwood with non-league Tamworth, which comes 3 days earlier a Premier League North London derby against Arsenal astatine the Emirates.

The ex-Juventus antheral volition besides beryllium unavailable for the travel to Goodison Park to look Everton connected January 19, and the Europa League sojourn to Hoffenheim connected January 23 whitethorn besides travel excessively soon for him.

However, Bentancur should beryllium fixed the greenish airy to marque his instrumentality successful Spurs' Premier League clash astatine location to Leicester City connected January 26, oregon failing that their last Europa League league signifier brushwood with Elfsborg connected January 30.

Which different Spurs players volition miss Tamworth tie?

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Bentancur is expected to beryllium 1 of 8 Tottenham absentees for Sunday's FA Cup match, a database that besides includes first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who is inactive connected the mend from an ankle fracture.

Meanwhile, each of Destiny Udogie, Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero, Wilson Odobert, Ben Davies and Richarlison are nursing thigh injuries, but the second mightiness instrumentality for the North London derby adjacent week.

Backup goalkeeper Fraser Forster is besides facing a contention against clip to instrumentality from unwellness for the weekend's game, but either Antonin Kinsky - who shone connected his debut against Liverpool - oregon Brandon Austin should don the gloves here.

Austin could beryllium 1 of respective fringe/fledgling players to travel into the XI astatine the Lamb Ground, wherever 17-year-old attacking phenom Mikey Moore is successful enactment for his archetypal quality since October, having struggled with a microorganism for a mates of months.

Moore returned to the matchday squad for the clash with Liverpool, wherever Sergio Reguilon, Will Lankshear, Alfie Dorrington and Timo Werner were besides connected the bench, and the quartet are candidates to commencement Sunday's crippled too.

Postecoglou volition besides person midfield duo James Maddison and Pape Sarr backmost from the EFL Cup suspensions they served successful the first-leg triumph implicit Liverpool.

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