Tottenham Hit by Fresh Injury Blow Ahead of Crucial Champions League Trip to PSG

Tottenham will head to Paris with a patched-up squad yet again, as Thomas Frank battles a mounting injury list before Wednesday’s Champions League showdown with PSG. Spurs, thumped 4-1 by Arsenal at the weekend, badly need a response — but they won’t have half the bodies they’d want for a night like this.

Spurs sit 10th in the Champions League league-phase standings after two wins and two draws from their first four games, hardly where they expected to be. And the treatment room still looks busier than the training pitch. Long-term absentees James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski and Radu Drăgușin (all knee injuries) remain out, though Drăgușin is edging closer and could be back soon if he keeps ticking boxes in rehab.

Up top, Dominic Solanke is still sidelined. He hasn’t played since August after that nasty ankle issue that needed surgery in September. Midfield enforcer Yves Bissouma is unavailable as well — ankle injury plus he wasn’t even registered for Europe, so he’d have missed it regardless. Same deal for Kota Takai, who’s nursing a thigh problem but also can’t play in the Champions League anyway.

Brennan Johnson adds to the headache, serving a suspension after seeing red against Copenhagen. That makes seven definite absences for Frank, whose selection board must look like a crime-scene diagram at this point. The only sliver of good news: Ben Davies could be back. The Welsh defender has missed eight matches with a hamstring strain but travelled and has a chance of featuring.

PSG, meanwhile, has injury issues of their own. Desire Doué is still out with a hamstring problem and Achraf Hakimi misses out with an ankle injury. But the Parisians are boosted by the possible return of Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé. Luis Enrique played it cagey, saying: “We will see tomorrow but, if he has no problems, then he will be in the squad.”

For Spurs, the stakes are clear: win in Paris and they drag themselves back into proper contention; lose and the league-phase table starts to look a bit grim. With a threadbare squad and a heavyweight opponent, Frank will need something special — or at least a bit of luck — to pull off a result in the French capital.