{"id":560768,"date":"2026-05-01T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:35:15","slug":"tottenham-roberto-de-zerbi-wants-spurs-to-silence-voice-inside-of-us-in-premier-league-relegation-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560768\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham: Roberto de Zerbi wants Spurs to ‘silence voice inside of us’ in Premier League relegation fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netherlands attacking midfielder Simons has been ruled out for the rest of the season<\/a> after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) against Wolves<\/a> – and joined a lengthy Spurs injury list.<\/p>\n

Striker Dominic Solanke also went off at Molineux with a hamstring injury, while goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario will also be unavailable against Villa – with Ben Davies, Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski, Wilson Odobert and Cristian Romero among long-term absentees.<\/p>\n

“I want to keep the focus on ourselves and the quality of my players,” De Zerbi said. <\/p>\n

“We go to play against one of the best teams in this moment Premier League, but if Tottenham<\/a> win at Villa Park it’s not a miracle. Maybe we lose but we have the quality to win this game. It’s not a miracle. We have to be positive.<\/p>\n

“If Xavi and Solanke are injured we can play with [Randal] Kolo Muani, [Mathys] Tel, Richarlison… they are different but very good players. All these things – I don’t have too much time to hear these things.<\/p>\n

“We are good enough to win the games and to stay up and then we will see because it’s the unique way. The way I know is to work hard, give my best, to trust in my idea of the players, their confidence and to be realistic.”<\/p>\n

However, one player close to returning from a long-term injury is James Maddison. <\/p>\n

The England playmaker has not featured this season because of an ACL injury but was named on the bench against both Brighton<\/a> and Wolves<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“I would like to play with Maddison because he is a special player but we have to consider physical condition, a lot of things. But I think he can be important in the next three games,” De Zerbi said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netherlands attacking midfielder Simons has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his anterior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}