a écrit le 16 septembre 2012 à 22h43 Assou-Ekotto injury takes gloss off Spurs win as defender faces month on sidelines
By Sportsmail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 20:39, 16 September 2012 | UPDATED: 20:39, 16 September 2012
Tottenham left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto is likely to be out for four weeks with a knee injury.
The Cameroon defender has barely missed a match in the last four seasons but he sat out Sunday's 3-1 win over Reading after a niggling injury flared up.
Manager Andre Villas-Boas said after the game that the 28-year-old may have to undergo a minor operation to rectify the problem.
Blow: Tottenham's Benoit Assou-Ekotto will miss the next four weeks
'Benoit has a small fragment in his knee that makes it swell a lot,' he said.
'He has played through pain in the last couple of games. His knee may have to be washed up and if that happens we are looking at a four-week absence.'
Kyle Naughton usually operates at right-back but he slotted in to Assou-Ekotto's position comfortably at Reading and Villas-Boas also has the option of shifting Jan Vertonghen to left-back, where he has played numerous times for Belgium.
dailymail.co.uk/
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Il ne sera surement donc pas de l expedition commando du 13......
By Sportsmail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 20:39, 16 September 2012 | UPDATED: 20:39, 16 September 2012
Tottenham left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto is likely to be out for four weeks with a knee injury.
The Cameroon defender has barely missed a match in the last four seasons but he sat out Sunday's 3-1 win over Reading after a niggling injury flared up.
Manager Andre Villas-Boas said after the game that the 28-year-old may have to undergo a minor operation to rectify the problem.
Blow: Tottenham's Benoit Assou-Ekotto will miss the next four weeks
'Benoit has a small fragment in his knee that makes it swell a lot,' he said.
'He has played through pain in the last couple of games. His knee may have to be washed up and if that happens we are looking at a four-week absence.'
Kyle Naughton usually operates at right-back but he slotted in to Assou-Ekotto's position comfortably at Reading and Villas-Boas also has the option of shifting Jan Vertonghen to left-back, where he has played numerous times for Belgium.
dailymail.co.uk/
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Il ne sera surement donc pas de l expedition commando du 13......
