Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has revealed how many players returned to training sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, ahead of Thursday's Leicester game.
Spurs were hit by a major Covid outbreak, which caused their recent fixtures against Rennes and Brighton to be called off.
The players who haven't tested positive and are well enough have now returned to training and in Wednesday's pre-match press conference, Conte spoke about how many players were training and what the last week has been like.
"Last week was terrible because the government decides, in the right way, to close the training ground and stop our training session" the Italian said.
"I had the press conference where it's very difficult to speak about football.
"Then we had Thursday, Friday and Saturday without any sessions. Sunday we started again to work with not many players, because we also had problems with U23s.
"We started with 13/14 players [on Sunday] and today [Wednesday] we had training with 16 players and more young players.
Conte also added:
"The situation has not changed so much. Players are back in training and other players are continuing to be selected. Those players who are back in training, they need time to find the right physical condition.
"The Covid is not only 10 days and many times brings with this virus a situation that you make your body not so strong. For this reason you have players injured after Covid.
"As I said before, players are back in training and today two players are back in training for the first time. Tomorrow I’ll put these players on the bench for 15-20 minutes at the end. They have in their legs 20 or 25 minutes.
"After 10 days you have players available but then you have to pay attention to the way to train, whether the body is ready to work in a good way. You have to pay attention, moderate the training to avoid injuries. This is the big problem, not only for Tottenham but for other clubs with Covid-hit players."
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