Death, taxes, a Tottenham Hotspur player injuring themselves while playing for Argentina. Bad news today out of CONMEBOL — apparently Tottenham Hotspur central defender Cuti Romero was substituted due to an injury concern in the second half of Argentina’s 2-1 World Cup Qualifying win over Paraguay on Thursday evening.
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According to Football.London, the injury appears to be to his right foot, the same one he injured earlier in the season playing for Tottenham against Aston Villa. It’s not clear if this is a different injury or if he reaggravated the one he just recuperated from, but either way it appears to be real and it SUCKS.
But there’s still a lot we don’t know. We don’t know the severity of the injury and whether the substitution was precautionary or not. We also don’t know the expected length of his recovery, or whether that same injury will impact his ability to play in Tottenham’s next match against Manchester City on November 23. But the long-tail impact is significant — with Micky van de Ven still out of action with a hamstring injury, Cuti sitting out the City game would likely mean a central defensive pairing of Radu Dragusin and Ben Davies, and more match minutes for Destiny Udogie and Pedro Porro.
But on the other hand, it’s City and I’m starting to be convinced we could play academy players in the back line and still somehow get a win against Pep.
