‘It does not look promising’- Postecoglou on Maddison’s injury | OneFootball

Ange Postecoglou has revealed that James Maddison’s knee injury ‘doesn’t look promising’.

Tottenham Hotspur drew 1-1 at West Ham in yet another underwhelming Premier League performance and there was more bad news for Spurs fans following the match.

Maddison was absent from the Spurs squad after going off injured on Thursday night. Today Postecoglou said: “No, it doesn’t look great, but we’re just waiting for further information. We’ll just wait and see.

“Hopefully we’ll probably get some clarity tomorrow. It’s fair to say it does not look promising but I’ll just wait and see.”

England teammate Dominic Solanke was also missing from the Tottenham squad. However there was positive news on the fitness of the striker.

Postecoglou revealed: “Dom’s improving. We obviously left him out today but the medical team are pretty confident he should be right for Thursday.”

Spurs will travel to Norway to face Bodo/Glimt on Thursday in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final. Postecoglou’s side are in a strong position after winning the first leg 3-1.

Looking ahead to that match, the Tottenham manager rotated his squad this afternoon. The Australian coach insisted that he was satisfied with what he saw today.

Postecoglou said: “Yeah proud of the player’s efforts. It’s not easy making so many changes and it’s going to affect fluency and even the rhythm of the team.

“But even the individual players haven’t played a lot regularly and it wasn’t just the changes, I mean I only made one sub so a lot of them played a lot more minutes than they have recently.

“I thought the efforts that they put in today were outstanding. They were really disciplined and organised.

“We were disappointed with the goal we conceded but aside from that I thought we nullified their threat as well as we could and they had some decent firepower up front and I still thought we were dangerous going the other way.

“So I’m glad the boys get some reward. It’s obviously not a win but get some reward for their efforts because I thought on a difficult day they handled themselves really well.”