Tottenham star suffers 'fairly significant' injury in Coventry win

There was bad news for Tottenham, despite their Carabao Cup win over Coventry on Wednesday night, as Wilson Odobert suffered a ‘fairly significant’ injury.

It was a dramatic night at the Coventry Building Society Arena as the Championship side had the lead with just a few minutes to play as they looked to cause an upset.

However, Djed Spence equalised in the 88th minute and Brennan Johnson scored the winner 92 minutes into the contest to book Tottenham’s spot in the next round thanks to the 2-1 victory.

There was concern for Odobert, though, who started the game but was replaced by Johnson after just 18 minutes, limping out of the contest.

It looked like a hamstring problem and while Ange Postecoglou couldn’t confirm the details of the issue, the Australian believed it looked like a pretty bad one, while he also had concern for Timo Werner.

‘Hard to say, Wilson looked fairly significant, so we’ll just wait and see,’ the Tottenham manager said after the match.

‘Timo [Werner], again not really sure if it was just fatigue but yeah, a bit unfortunate for both of those. Obviously, both play in a similar position as well. We’re hoping it’s not something too significant.’

There was no issue with Destiny Udogie, though, despite the full-back being taken off at half-time and replaced by Spence.

‘Yeah, it was always the plan for him to play 45 tonight,’ Postecoglou said of Udogie. ‘He missed a lot of pre-season so it is a balancing act with him to get us some game time because he is not 100 per cent fit. Tonight it was always the plan to play him 45 and play Djed 45.’

Postecoglou made eight changes to his starting XI from the north London derby defeat to Arsenal on Sunday and defended that decision after the narrow victory.

What I’ve always tried to do is the right thing and the best thing for us in terms of what we’re trying to achieve,’ Postecoglou said.

‘There’s no guarantees with anything you do in football but what I’ve always done is backed my decisions in critical times to always do what I feel is best and if it doesn’t work out then I can live with that but I’m certainly not going to jeopardise what we’re trying to build here by doing something that’s going to make me look like I’m in a safer position.

‘We were always going to play these guys because we have Europe starting next week. The last thing I want to do is throw guys in out of necessity.

‘We need to get game time and tonight some key players for us got some good minutes that mean that when we do have to make changes moving forward, they’ve already played and they’re ready to go.’

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