REPORT: Cristian Romero out 5-8 weeks with knee injury

Cuti Romero left the pitch in tears after choosing up an damage in Spurs’ 1-0 loss at Sunderland on Sunday (Sundayerland? Let’s go together with that, lastly). Nicely, I say “picked up an damage” however it was actually brought on by Bryan Brobbey two-handed shoving him into keeper Antonin Kinsky, one thing that injured each gamers.

Based on ESPN’s Martin Arevalo, that Brobbey shove is probably going the tip of Cuti’s season, and fairly presumably his Tottenham profession if Spurs don’t handle to avoid wasting themselves from relegation. Arevalo experiences that Romero has picked up a knee damage and might be out for the subsequent 5-8 weeks.

Contemplating Spurs have six matches left, there’s severe doubt that he’ll be prepared in time for any of Tottenham’s run-in. If it’s an MCL damage, which is what was surmised, the shorter restoration time implies that he may nonetheless be a part of Argentina’s squad for this summer time’s World Cup, which is implausible for him. Not a lot for us.

I nonetheless am baffled by match official Rob Jones’ choice to not even whistle Brobbey for a foul, when he clearly shoved Romero immediately into Kinsky. VAR couldn’t adjudicate it as a result of it wasn’t whistled by Jones on the time, and VAR can not retroactively situation playing cards that go in opposition to the match official’s on-pitch choice. That was very clearly at minimal a yellow card worthy offense, which might’ve been Brobbey’s second and a pink. As an alternative we find yourself with two injured gamers (Kinsky had a minimize on his head and might be positive) and a loss in what was one of many worst officiated matches I’ve seen in a really, very very long time.

As you possibly can inform, I’m nonetheless indignant about this. We would have simply witnessed the final look by Romero in a Spurs shirt, because it’s fairly clear he’s going to ask to be offered if Spurs are relegated. In the event that they save themselves although… nicely, let’s not cross that bridge till we come to it.