And with Spurs frontman Harry Kane expected to be facing a period on the sidelines after being stretchered off with an ankle injury late on against Sunderland, Son could now even get a chance in his more favoured central striking role.
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Kane suffered the ankle injury when he landed awkwardly moments after scoring the victor for his side in the Premier League clash against Sunderland on 18 September. Mauricio Pochettino conceded post-match that the player may have sustained ligament damage, with tests undertaken yesterday.
“I prefer that you talk a bit more about his performance because it’s not easy – every game he has to make more than five saves and mentally you can get exhausted – but today he was wonderful”.
“When one player is missing, it gives an opportunity to another player to bring his skills, his energy, his qualities and his strength. We need to wait”. “But I think after what he has been doing, especially against Stoke the other week, and now he is showing that he deserves to play in that team”. “That’s the way we need to play every game, not only some games”.
“The game against Monaco was a hard one to take”, Alli told Sky Sports.
Pochettino hauled off Son Heung-min at half-time last week but the South Korean was arguably Tottenham’s best player against David Moyes’ side.
“Did the criticism hurt?”
Asked whether Pochettino’s comments had hurt, the goalkeeper added: “Yes, but you know it is only the truth”. Gillingham now lie 13 in the League One table and defeated Watford in the earlier round.
Lloris also hailed an “amazing” performance from opposite number Jordan Pickford, who kept his team in the match with a number of saves in the first half.
If not, there is an global break right afterwards and Kane could focus on attempting to get back for another big match, the clash at home to West Ham on November 19.
Lloris added: “We can congratulate their keeper (Jordan Pickford), he was wonderful”.
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“There have been changes”. We will be OK. Last season he was brilliant too. “We could have been stronger in parts but we did OK”. We held our own.
