The central defender of Tottenham Hotspur, Micky van de Ven, was a remarkable absence of the team leaf to stand against Brentford on Sunday.
The Dutchman had missed 22 Spurs games in all competitions after taking out a thigh injury in October. His absence fell, among other things, with periods from the team for Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie.
The 23-year-old was back in Tottenham’s side for the Europa League victory against Elfsborg during the week and played the opening of 45 minutes before he was replaced by Radu Dragusin at halftime.
Dragusin added Spurs’ injury problems by abandoning this game for 20 minutes in the second half, which many believed that Van de Ven for Spurs in West -London would start again.
But he was nowhere to be seen on Spurs’ Teamblatt an hour before the kick -off – neither in the starting line -up and on the bench – and Postecoglou explained that his absence was precisely and that it was a treatment of minutes and not an injury flickering.
“We just try to manage his minutes,” said Postecoglou Sky Sport. “It is a quick turn and I spoke to the medical team and Micky to give him another training week to be ready in another week.”
Before the game, Poseteclou had stated that Van de Ven did not return for a complete inclination and said in his media tasks before the game: “Probably not 90 because of the short turn, but he felt really good last night. It was great. It was great It was great.
“You know that he’s a good player, but you don’t notice how much a good player he is [he’s not there]. I think this is the case with all of our players who have been missing for some time. It is not only the effects that you have individually, but also the effects on the group. “
Tottenham started the game with the impressive teenager Archie Gray, who was in the central defense alongside Ben Davies. Kevin Danso’s new contract, which does not appear for the club.
The Austrian borrowed with an obligation to buy, and Postecoglou was clearly pleased to have secured the 26-year-old: “It is brilliant, I think my back for a while, he experienced, a good individual defender and again I said before they get new players, gives us energy.