Ange Postecoglou confirms Udogie, Van de Ven and Romero injury return timeline for Tottenham

Ange Postecoglou has confirmed that Destiny Udogie will face around six weeks on the sidelines due to the hamstring injury he sustained against Wolves. Starting last Sunday's game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Italian suffered the issue early in the second half and had to be replaced by Sergio Reguilon.

Udogie struggled to walk off the pitch and the severity of the injury soon became clear. The left-back joins a long list of Tottenham players in the treatment room at present that includes the likes of Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven, Ben Davies and Cristian Romero.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday's game against Newcastle United, Postecoglou indicated that Van de Ven, Davies and Romero are expected to return at the end of the month, with Richarlison and Mikey Moore hopefully back next week. The boss also confirmed that Vicario is still out until the end of February.

"No, unfortunately, no," he said in his pre-match press conference when asked if anyone has returned to fitness. "So there’s Destiny obviously with these hamstring you know, it looks around the sort of six-week mark for him missing, obviously we lose [Rodrigo] Bentancur suspended, none of the injured ones are kind of back yet. We had a bit of an illness bug running through the squad as well, so a few missing training, but that’s alright, we’ll be ok."

He added: "Yeah, at this stage, Richy and Mikey will be the next two off the rank, hopefully next week at some point and then Ben, Micky van de Van and Romero all kind of around the same time, so that back end of January, they're all sort of slated to return."

When asked if Spurs could possibly lose more players due to the sickness bug, he said: "Not sure yet, we'll see."

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