{"id":21208,"date":"2025-09-30T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:04:07","slug":"solanke-surgery-leaves-spurs-struggling-for-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21208","title":{"rendered":"Solanke surgery leaves Spurs struggling for strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank confirmed Monday that his side will be without striker Dominic Solanke for their Champions League meeting at Norwegian side Bodo\/Glimt.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old last played for Spurs on August 23 against Manchester City and has now undergone a minor surgery to fix his injured ankle which will keep him out of Tuesday’s match as well as the Premier League meeting with Leeds on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“It’s a small procedure, so that will mean he is not ready for today of course and of course Leeds as well,” Spurs boss Frank told a press conference ahead of the game in the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have more news about a timeframe after the international break but I don’t expect it to be long.”<\/p>\n

Surgery for Solanke leaves Frank light on attacking options at the Aspmyra Stadion, with Randal Kolo Muani, who is on loan from Paris Saint-Germain, unable to train on Monday because of a dead leg.<\/p>\n

Frank said the medical staff were “on top of” the problem but Muani is out of the picture for Tuesday leaving Richarlison as the only fit striker for a rematch against the side that Spurs beat 5-1 on aggregate four months ago to reach the Europa League final.<\/p>\n

Mathys Tel featured in the 2-0 win in Norway but is not registered for Tottenham’s Champions League squad.<\/p>\n

The Europa League champions will also be without their captain Cristian Romero. Frank said he had been left in England as a “precaution” after a bruising encounter with Wolves.<\/p>\n

However, Ben Davies is back after a minor knee issue and will be in the frame to play a part on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Danish coach Frank heaped praise on Bodo after their historic run to the Europa League semi-final was followed by qualification for the Champions League for the first time.<\/p>\n

Frank, who succeeded Ange Postecoglou as Spurs coach during the summer, said he had watched video of the games but played down the relevance of their recent history.<\/p>\n

“How many months is that? Four months ago? With all due respect, I was not the coach. This is a new game. This is a new situation,” he said.<\/p>\n

Spurs won their opening match 1-0 against Villarreal in London while the Norwegians drew 2-2 at Slavia Prague.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank confirmed Monday that his side will be without striker Dominic Solanke for their Champions League meeting at Norwegian side Bodo\/Glimt. The 28-year-old last played for Spurs on August 23 against Manchester City and has now undergone a minor surgery to fix his injured ankle which will keep him out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}