Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris will be out for six to eight weeks after suffering a knee injury in their 1-0 win over Manchester City. The French goalkeeper will miss a significant amount of time due to the injury, which occurred during Sunday’s 1-0 victory over Manchester City. Despite scans revealing ligament injury after a late-game challenge, Lloris is not anticipated to require surgery. As Spurs begin an important period of their season over the coming few weeks, Fraser Forster will now move up to the number one spot. On Saturday, they go to Leicester in the Premier League. The following week, they face AC Milan in the Champions League, followed by matches against West Ham and Chelsea in London.
Forster, who joined from Southampton on a free transfer last summer, has only made four appearances thus far and one of those was in the 2-2 draw with Brentford on Boxing Day in the Premier League. Even though Lloris has been accountable for a lot of errors this season, his absence will be felt. He leads the Premier League with four mistakes that directly resulted in goals, and he will be disappointed with a number of other saves he failed to make in recent games. The 36-year-old, who just announced his retirement from France’s national team after the World Cup, has been a cornerstone of the Spurs team ever since his most recent serious injury in October 2019.
“So to speak. Yes, this may turn out to be a blessing. I’m only guessing, but he may have had to deal with the stress, heartbreak, and mental exhaustion of a World Cup,” Mark Schwarzer said after Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris suffered a knee injury. “He expressed recently how much the strain and disappointment of losing the final had weighed on him. He had experienced the disappointment of not winning it and losing in the final. He nearly immediately returned to a Tottenham team, although he still committed blunders. He is once again the center of attention. His longevity at the club and his ability to continue playing at this level has been questioned. These minor details all contribute. They cause you harm.”
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