Tottenham’s Dejan Kulusevski to miss Europa League final after knee surgery

Dejan Kulusevski has undergone genu country and volition miss Tottenham’s Europa League last against Manchester United successful Bilbao adjacent Wednesday.

The nine person confirmed the setback, which came aft Ange Postecoglou raised fears connected Monday astir the attacking midfielder’s engagement successful the showpiece.

Kulusevski was forced disconnected successful the 19th infinitesimal of Spurs’ Premier League decision at location against Crystal Palace connected Sunday, with Postecoglou saying the subordinate was inactive sore 24 hours aboriginal and everybody had their fingers crossed for him.

Kulusevski’s lack against United is simply a important stroke fixed his good signifier for overmuch of the play and however Postecoglou is without his different main enactment for the No 10 role, James Maddison, who besides has a genu injury. The manager has said antecedently that different midfielder, Lucas Bergvall, is apt to beryllium retired for the remainder of the play with an ankle issue.

Postecoglou’s remaining options successful midfield are Rodrigo Bentancur, Yves Bissouma, Pape Sarr and Archie Gray.

Kulusevski, Spurs’ standout subordinate implicit the archetypal fractional of the season, missed a small much than six weeks aft hurting an ankle astatine the extremity of February. But Postecoglou felt the Swede had shown signs of a instrumentality to signifier successful past Thursday’s Europa League semi-final 2nd limb win astatine Bodø/Glimt and successful the aboriginal moving against Palace.