{"id":900219,"date":"2026-10-30T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900219\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:10:13","slug":"de-zerbi-udogie-maddison-available-vs-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900219\/","title":{"rendered":"De Zerbi: Udogie, Maddison available vs. Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There are still a decent number of players that are out injured for Tottenham Hotspur \u2014 most notably Xavi Simons and Wilson Odobert are on the long-term injury list as they recover from ACL injuries sustained last season. But two injured players will at least be on the bench as Spurs host Crystal Palace on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In an injury update given to the media<\/a>, Spurs manager Roberto De Zerbi confirmed that left back Destiny Udogie and attacking midfielder James Maddison will both be available for selection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201dJames is available. This week, Maddison didn\u2019t work like other players, but for tomorrow he is available. He is a special player for us. He has unique characteristics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201c[Udogie] is available. That is another problematic player in terms of injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A quick note \u2014 English is, famously, not De Zerbi\u2019s first language and sometimes nuances can be lost when he speaks in his second? third? language. I don\u2019t feel like I really need to say this but just in case it\u2019s pretty clear that the \u201cproblematic\u201d aspect of Udogie is his propensity to pick up injuries, not the player himself. Udogie isn\u2019t problematic, but his injury history sure is!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That does mean, however, that there are injured players (non-Odobert\/Simons edition) that will not feature, and De Zerbi also confirmed that Tosin Adarabioyo, Lucas Bergvall, Mykhailo Mudryk and Savio will also miss Saturday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cStill out [are] Tosin, [Lucas] Bergvall, [Mykhailo] Mudryk. Savio is injured. Everyone else is available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I\u2019m not sure if we can count on either Maddison nor Udogie to be starters this weekend, but we\u2019ve been surprised before \u2014 and obviously we won\u2019t know until the lineups are revealed before the match on Saturday. But considering Spurs\u2019 strong showing against Chelsea last weekend, I would feel confident about Tottenham\u2019s ability to put in a cromulent performance against Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are still a decent number of players that are out injured for Tottenham Hotspur \u2014 most notably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,7021],"class_list":["post-900219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}