Cristian Romero injury update as Tottenham defender…

Cristian Romero injury update as Tottenham defender seeks to push forward return

Cristian Romero is aiming to be back in training sooner rather than later after suffering an adductor muscle injury.

The 24-year-old Argentine was ruled out of Saturday's Premier League match against Wolves with the injury he suffered late on in the match against Chelsea the previous weekend. Despite reports in his native Argentina, the injury in his groin is not believed to have been sustained during a challenge by Chelsea's Marc Cucurella - although that did leave its painful mark - and instead came from another action in the match's latter stages.

football.london understands that Romero was told by Spurs' medical department that the adductor injury would require three to four weeks of recovery time. However, the hardy Argentine was immediately champing at the bit to get straight back into contention and Tottenham boss Antonio Conte confirmed that the defender immediately offered his services to play through the injury in the match against Wolves.

That offer was not taken up by the Italian due to the potential risk attached to it, with the defender not training and instead receiving treatment for the injury. Romero, always desperate to play for club and country, is understood to have felt similar last season when he was ruled out of the final three matches of Tottenham's season with a hip injury but wanted to play.

Spurs will monitor Romero's muscle injury closely in the days ahead and how it reacts to the recovery process before deciding on his return to training and matches with the player keen to return for Tottenham's game at Nottingham Forest next weekend if given the green light by the medical staff.

Conte, who has always shown a willingness to keep the club's medical department on their toes, appeared to hint that he did not expect the defender to be out for long when speaking about the injury on Thursday.

"Cristian [Romero] had a little problem during the game against Chelsea in the final part of the game, but it’s a little problem," he said. "After the game he started to feel a bit of pain in his adductor. We checked him, and honestly the player wanted to give his availability but in this type of situation especially as we have a lot of games to play, it would be stupid to take a risk. For this reason for the game against Wolverhampton he’s not available."

The Spurs boss also confirmed football.london's report that Oliver Skipp was set to return to outdoor work after his hairline fracture to his heel in a freak training ground incident.

"The other player not available for Wolverhampton is Skipp but good news about him because today or tomorrow he will run again. This is really good news," he said. "I hope this player to be a bit lucky because since January he started to have a problem. But I think hopefully he will be ready quickly. We need his performance, he’s a really good guy, and for sure he’s suffering a lot to stay outside, but I think for the period where we have to play a lot of games he will be available, which is really good news for us."

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