Ange Postecoglou issues Tottenham injury update and his Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven hope

Ange Postecoglou has confirmed he has no new injury concerns for Tottenham's game at Ipswich Town and that he hopes to have Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven available for their return to the Europa League next month. Spurs go into Saturday's fixture looking to make it three wins on the spin in the league after defeating Brentford and Manchester United recently.

The north London club were given a big injury boost last weekend against United as Guglielmo Vicario, James Maddison, Brennan Johnson and Wilson Odobert all returned to action after their respective injuries. Destiny Udogie was also part of the matchday squad but he remained an unused substitute for the 1-0 win.

Postecoglou will want to increase the quintet's playing time this weekend, especially with a huge fixture against Manchester City coming up on the calendar next Wednesday. Prior to that game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, all the focus will be on Saturday's 3pm kick-off at Ipswich.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference at Hotspur Way on Friday afternoon, the Spurs boss provided the latest on the injury front ahead of their visit to Suffolk and when his injured players could be set to return, with Romero and Van de Ven potentially back around the AZ Alkmaar match on Thursday, March 6.

"No new concerns. Sort of from last week, everyone sort of got through okay," he admitted. "The three guys who picked a knock up last week were all good. Obviously, again, having a full week to recover and prepare is good. And the other guys are ticking along well.

"We've got now two games in quick succession in the league. Good opportunity for us to get some match minutes into guys who have been out for a while. We saw Brennan and Wilson, obviously, Vic come back last week, Madders, but Destiny as well.

"We need to get them some match minutes and these two games will give us an opportunity to do that. Then we've got a week before the first Europa game. We've got the weekend off.

"And again, that's about the time we're hoping that guys like Romero and Micky in particular they should be in and around that sort of mark. And Richie and Dom not too far behind, to be honest.

"And again, with that, we've got sort of two games before the international break. So we're kind of mapping it out and trying to sort of navigate a way where we can have as fit and healthy squad as we have all year for the run-in."

On Romero having a scan, he added: "Yeah, he's had that and it's going well. He's in a good place. So, like I said, with him and Micky, it's just picking our moment now.

"I'm really keen to get them back and have him back for the rest of the year. We've got a really good sort of period coming up where I think we can manage that where they're back, they've had good weeks of training with us, so that when they do come back in, they're in a good place. So, yeah, he's still going well."

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