Tottenham travelled to Australia straight after their 3-0 victory over Sheffield United in their final match of the Premier League season on Sunday.
Ange Postecoglou’s team have travelled to play Newcastle at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the city the Spurs head coach calls home.
The post-season friendly has drawn criticism regarding the player well-being, raising questions over the extra demands it places on players amid a congested fixture calendar.
In fact, Newcastle defender Kieran Trippier has publicly criticised the fixture, calling the situation ‘not ideal’, specially given that the summer is packed with international tournaments.
Ange however did not show much concern regarding this, claiming that given Tottenham’s comparatively easier run of fixtures.
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The match is schedule to take place tomorrow morning at 10:45am BST, and speaking to the media ahead of the friendly match, Ange confirmed that there will be two players missing from the squad tomorrow.
He said:
“Cuti for personal reasons, he’s got to fly back to Argentina. So we kind of knew that, some personal reasons. Pierre had an injury going into the last game and was kind of touch and go and after the game pulled up sore. Again because we were getting straight on a flight, it just didn’t make any sense to bring guys like that along.”
“Everyone else got through it unscathed from the weekend so we’ll have a full compliment from the squad we took away and some young players as well and we’ll, if we can, get them some game time.”
