Tottenham attacking midfielder Xavi Simons has confirmed that he will miss the rest of the Premier League season and the World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands international, who joined Spurs in a summer deal worth around \u00a351m from RB Leipzig, suffered a serious-looking knee injury in Tottenham<\/a>\u2018s 1-0 victory over Wolves over the weekend.<\/p>\n Simons appeared to twist his knee in the turf at Molineux in an unfortunate incident that leaves Tottenham\u2019s hopes of survival even more in the balance.<\/p>\n The Dutchman has been one of Tottenham\u2019s only bright sparks this season with Roberto De Zerbi striking a positive but cautious tone after the match.<\/p>\n On Simons\u2019 injury, De Zerbi said:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a problem with his knee. We will see in the next few days. I would like to know more about Xavi because you know the knee. He felt pain, but now I spoke with him and he feels better than when he got his injury.\u201d<\/p>\n But late on Sunday night, Simons revealed the news that he would be out for the season and miss the World Cup with the Netherlands.<\/p>\n READ: Tottenham end 118-day wait for win but still end weekend as miserable losers<\/a><\/p>\n He wrote on Instagram: \u201cThey say life can be cruel and today it feels that way. My season has come to an abrupt end and I\u2019m just trying to process it.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, I\u2019m heartbroken. None of it makes sense. All I\u2019ve wanted to do is fight for my team and now the ability to do that has been snatched away from me\u2026 along with the World Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cRepresenting my country this summer\u2026 just gone. It\u2019ll take time to find peace with this, but I\u2019ll continue to be the best teammate I can be.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no doubt that together we\u2019ll win this fight. I\u2019ll walk this path now, guided by faith, with strength, with resilience, with belief, as I count down the days to getting back out there. Be patient with me. TTP. COYS.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE TOTTENHAM COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Tottenham are still two points adrift of safety in the Premier League, despite the win over Wolves, with relegation rivals West Ham also winning at the weekend.<\/p>\n De Zerbi: \u2018I hope this result can change something in our head\u2019<\/p>\n When asked about his players\u2019 character, De Zerbi said in his post-match press conference: \u201cYeah, I think in the first half, in the first 30, 35 minutes, we played well. We didn\u2019t create big chances to score, but anyway we had total control of the game.<\/p>\n \u201cThen, I don\u2019t know the pressure, maybe we didn\u2019t win any games in 2026, maybe this pressure, maybe because we played against Wolverhampton, we lost distances, we lost order on the pitch, every one of us wanted to go one-to-one, but anyway, I\u2019m happy for the result.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope this result can change something in our head, in our mentality for the other results. It\u2019s already very tough to win a game for us. If we put our heads on the other teams, it becomes too tough for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham attacking midfielder Xavi Simons has confirmed that he will miss the rest of the Premier League season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-419731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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