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Rob Guest

Why Lucas Moura is not in Antonio Conte's Tottenham squad for Premier League match vs West Ham

Antonio Conte is very light on attacking options on his Tottenham bench for this evening's Premier League clash at West Ham. Starting with Dejan Kulusevski, Harry Kane and Son Heung-min in his front three, he only has Richarlison to call upon from the bench.

The reason for that is down to Lucas Moura and Bryan Gil's absence through injury. Both missed out on the squad for Sunday's Premier League clash at Nottingham Forest, and the duo are absent again.

Speaking to the media on Monday afternoon to preview the game, Conte outlined that Lucas is currently unavailable due to inflammation in his tendon.

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"About Lucas, he has this inflammation in his tendon. I hope to recover him very soon, because for sure when I was a player, I had a lot of pain in my tendon. You know very well tendon inflammation doesn't finish in only one week, two weeks," he said.

"I hope to have him early with us. About Gil... Gil is not still available, but in 2-3 days, he will start to work and recover."

As well as the absent pair, Cristian Romero has missed out on the matchday squad despite returning to first-team training at the start of the week following his adductor issue. Oliver Skipp has returned, though, for the first time since the club's summer tour of South Korea.

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