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Tottenham will have Kevin Danso and Mathys Tel available for Thursday's Carabao Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool but Ange Postecoglou has revealed Micky van de Ven is set to miss out.

Spurs were active during the final days of the winter transfer window with centre-back Danso signed from Lens on Sunday before, 24 hours later, forward Tel was convinced to join the club from Bayern Munich.

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Micky van de Ven (L) and Ange Postecoglou

Van de Ven’s comeback against Elfsborg raised hope he may feature in this second leg, which Tottenham will take a 1-0 lead into, but, while Postecoglou reiterated the Netherlands defender had not suffered a new issue, he suggested he is not yet ready to handle the physicality of Premier League opposition after a lengthy absence.

I just don’t see the sense right now in risking that.



(Van de Ven) hasn’t re-injured the injury or anything like that, it’s just that I just feel we need to get more into him

Postecoglou also declared himself happy with the club’s work in the winter transfer window even though Danso and Tel arrived after a packed January scheduled for his injury-hit group.

"Look, it wasn’t an easy window for us or anyone," Postecoglou said.


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