Antonio Conte has provided Tottenham injury update ahead of Leicester City clash in the wake of Covid outbreak at the club.
The north London club had nine first team players testing positive and five members of the coaching staff, as well as a number of the U23s development squad.
Speaking ahead of the Foxes clash on Thursday, Spurs head coach Conte said:
"Now, we have to do what the Premier League tells us to do. I think this is now time to try a solution. I don’t know. Last week I was frustrated and I was nervous to have every single day players with Covid made me very upset and now we have not got any players with Covid. We are having problems post-Covid. Obviously if I compare this week to last week, now we are back.
"For the players that were with Covid, they did not have serious symptoms and this is good for the players. Honestly, I think [what happens next] is the big problem now, because when you have Covid and you have ten days and you stay at home and usually after ten days you become negative.
"The problem is the way that Covid affects your body and surely we have to pay great attention to have the right training sessions.
"I think that not many people know very well the time that the players or the body of the player needs to recover well to feel 100 per cent. This is the problem not only for Tottenham’s players but for all the players in the whole world, but at the same time, when you have a squad of 20 players and nine of them have Covid, it is normal that I am a bit worried.
"There are many problems during the season and this is a big problem but we want to face it in the right way and overcome this problem and overcome this situation."
On injuries, he added:
"No, no injuries [apart from] Romero, and good news is that Giovani Lo Celso is available and he started to train with us from Sunday.
"Now we have only Romero injured and we hope for Cristian to recover very soon. You know that injury is a serious injury and I understand also the frustration of the player, that he doesn’t have the opportunity to play but Cristian has to be calm and to recover in the right way because we need him."
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