{"id":601633,"date":"2026-05-24T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:15:09","slug":"tottenham-cristian-romero-back-in-england-for-everton-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601633\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham: Cristian Romero back in England for Everton game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club captain Cristian Romero has returned to London from Argentina for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>&#8216;s crunch final match of the Premier League season at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c98mqrpz50vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled out<\/a> of the game because of a knee injury, was expected to watch his boyhood club Belgrano play River Plate in the Argentina Primera Division Apertura final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the defender is instead at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> Hotspur Stadium, where a win for the home side will guarantee Premier League survival and a draw will also realistically be enough because of their vastly superior goal difference compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United&#8217;s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cgrpzxnz1e2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier this week,<\/a> head coach Roberto de Zerbi defended his captain&#8217;s expected absence from the game but also said he &#8220;100%&#8221; understood why fans were upset about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">De Zerbi added that the decision for Romero, who is racing to be fit for the World Cup, to return to Argentina to continue his rehabilitation was agreed with the club&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club captain Cristian Romero has returned to London from Argentina for Tottenham Hotspur&#8216;s crunch final match of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601633","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\/601633","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=601633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}