{"id":157,"date":"2019-03-01T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/tottenham-hotspur-news-lucas-moura-provides-update-on-his-health-as-mauricio-pochettino-faces-injury-crisis\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:51:02","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-news-lucas-moura-provides-update-on-his-health-as-mauricio-pochettino-faces-injury-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur news: Lucas Moura provides update on his health as Mauricio Pochettino faces injury crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham forward Lucas Moura has stated the knock he sustained in his side&#8217;s win against Tranmere earlier this month is &#8220;still painful&#8221; but he is hoping to be &#8220;ready as soon as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian was responding to a fan asking for an update about his fitness on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The former PSG man wrote: &#8220;The knock was strong, it is still painful. I am doing full time treatment to be ready as soon as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are in the middle of a player availability crisis, with Harry Kane sidelined until March and Heung-Min Son now at the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino\u00a0could utilise Moura in the centre-forward position to accommodate the loss of Kane. He has played that role in spells this season alongside the England international to reasonable success.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs fans are desperate for the 26-year-old to be declared fit with their attacking options now significantly limited.<\/p>\n<p>151&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Games&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong>23<\/p>\n<p>90&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Wins&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong>13<\/p>\n<p>31&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Draws&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; 5<\/p>\n<p>30&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Losses&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>5<\/p>\n<p>2.0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Goals\/Game<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1.6<\/p>\n<p>2.0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Points\/Game&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1.9<\/p>\n<p>60%&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Win %&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 57%<\/p>\n<p>Another option Pochettino could turn to is Fernando Llorente. The Spaniard, 33, has played just 36 minutes of Premier League action this season but recently scored a hat-trick against Tranmere, the same game Moura sustained his injury.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham travel to Craven Cottage this weekend to face Fulham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham forward Lucas Moura has stated the knock he sustained in his side&#8217;s win against Tranmere earlier this month is &#8220;still painful&#8221; but he is hoping to be &#8220;ready as soon as possible&#8221;. The Brazilian was responding to a fan asking for an update about his fitness on Twitter. The former PSG man wrote: &#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}