Postecoglou plays down difficulty of managing injury-laden squad

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou explains how he's managing 'best player of the season' Dejan Kulusevski.

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00:00I'm never going to make decisions just to kind of alleviate or appease

00:09people's opinions. I think he's been our best player

00:15this year and I want to protect him because there's no chance he can play

00:18all these games that we've got. And like I said, even if they can play, performance

00:23will invariably drop because it's not sustainable. So we have to

00:28pick and choose. Obviously, I thought the weekend game, particularly

00:33with Pape and Madders and Biss in there, we're obviously missing

00:41Bentoncourt as well. So whenever I was going to leave him out, it's going to leave a

00:44bit of a gap and then losing Dom on the day didn't help us on the weekend.

00:49But yeah, it's something we're going to have to do, particularly

00:53with the small numbers we have between now and Christmas.

00:58Hopefully we'll get Romero and Mickie back in this time, but the rest of

01:03them probably won't. So middle, front, third and Bentoncourt included in that,

01:08he's not going to be available for a while. So middle and front third, we're

01:12going to have to rotate the players a fair bit, I think.