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da dobrowin： Kyle Walker-Peters has lost his fitness battle and is set to miss this weekend’s clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, per The London Evening Standard.
What’s the word?
The Spurs right-back sustained a hamstring strain during the club’s 1-0 defeat to Newcastle United on Sunday.
Walker-Peters has started each of the club’s three games thus far this season, with Kieran Trippier sold to Atletico Madrid in the summer and Juan Foyth injured.
The Standard reports that, while Serge Aurier is fit, he is available for transfer, meaning manager Mauricio Pochettino is cautious over whether to select him.
It leaves the Argentine with two options: Moussa Sissoko could be asked to play at right-back after deputising in the position following Walker-Peters’ injury against Newcastle, while Eric Dier could make his first start of the season if the Frenchman instead plays in central midfield.
A crisis
This is a nightmare scenario for Pochettino.
While Spurs have hardly set the world alight at the start of the season, Walker-Peters has been impressive.
Losing him at this stage, with Aurier’s future up in the air and Foyth still on the sidelines, means that a midfielder is going to have to be drafted in.
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There are numerous problems with that, not least the facts that Sissoko is a rampaging midfielder with an errant touch and an occasional lack of discipline, while Dier has yet to play this season.
Chucking either of them in at right-back in the north London derby, against the pace of Nicolas Pepe and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, is a recipe for disaster.
It remains to be seen if Pochettino can come up with an alternative solution.
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