José Mourinho, Tottenham coach, has once again been presented with one of his most feared problems, if not the most: Harry Kane, his great star, is injured again (in this case, in both ankles) and will be low for several weeks. ” “There are players you cannot replace. When it happens, it happens, but you have to fight, we can't do anything else, ”said Mourinho after injuring the iconic forward in the game lost 1-3 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday.
This Sunday the Spurs visit Brighton and on February 4 they host Chelsea in the north derby against south London. Two very important Premier matches for Tottenham 6th in the table, 8 points behind the leader, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and 4 points from the Champions zone. The schedule for Mourinho's men is full in the coming weeks: also in the Premier League, the visit of West Brom awaits them on the 6th. In the second round of the FA Cup, on the 10th, Everton-Tottenham. In the English championship, on the 13th the Spurs visit Manchester City. And on the 18th, in the first leg of the Europa League round of 32, to the Austrian Wolfsberger.
Harry Kane had to be treated twice in the first half against Liverpool, once for each ankle, and eventually retired to the locker room at half-time. The first, on the right, after a tackle by Thiago, and the other, on the left, in an action with Jordan Henderson.
Mourinho said in this regard that “the second injury was worse than the first, (Kane) could resist one, but not both, for Harry to leave a game in which we were losing it had to be more than a nuisance.” Curiously, on Wednesday, in the preview of the match against Liverpool, Mourinho stated that “you can only replace Van Dijk with Van Dijk, it happens to us with Kane.” The next day the England captain was injured again.
The ankles have been the great headache in Kane's career, especially in the 2018-2019 season, when ligament injuries forced him to be out for almost a month and a half first and then almost two months. Your Achilles tendon. In 2019-20 it was a problem in the femur that kept him inactive for 67 days.