{"id":17952,"date":"2022-05-12T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/12\/why-cristian-romero-is-absent-for-tottenham-vs-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:01:27","slug":"why-cristian-romero-is-absent-for-tottenham-vs-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/12\/why-cristian-romero-is-absent-for-tottenham-vs-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cristian Romero is absent for Tottenham vs Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An explanation for the absence of star defender Cristian Romero from Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s squad to face Arsenal has been provided on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the North London Derby is of course set to play out in short order.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the tense ongoing battle for the Premier League\u2019s final top-4 berth, Spurs will play host to Arsenal, in the knowledge that a defeat would see their hopes of a return to the Champions League brought to a definitive end for another season.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, it no doubt came as a blow to all associated with the Lilywhites to learn that, a short time ago, one of the club\u2019s star performers was ruled out of Thursday night\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>The player in question? Cristian Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Upon Antonio Conte\u2019s latest matchday XI being unveiled, summer arrival Romero was nowhere to be seen:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NorthLondonDerby?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NorthLondonDerby<\/a> starting XI! \u270a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mbnjfic7fO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mbnjfic7fO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1524807869517922307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Injury blow<\/h2>\n<p>And an explanation for as much, as alluded to above, has since been provided.<\/p>\n<p>As per Tottenham reporter Dan Kilpatrick, Romero misses out on the derby owing to an unspecified injury problem, the extent of which is yet to be revealed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thfc<\/a> Romero misses out through injury in a major blow for Spurs. Sanchex makes his first start since the 2-0 defeat to Wolves in mid-February. Otherwise unchanged from Liverpool. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KflEHyeQcm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/KflEHyeQcm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Kilpatrick (@Dan_KP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dan_KP\/status\/1524808343533010947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>*Update* \u2013 Antonio Conte has since confirmed that his star stopper is suffering with a hip complaint:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cristian Romero misses out with a hip injury picked up against Liverpool. Conte just said: \u201cIn the game against Liverpool he received a hit on his hip. After the game he had pain and is not right to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlasdairGold\/status\/1524809858465382400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/live-streaming-match-previews\/tottenham-hotspur-vs-arsenal-live-streaming-watch-premier-league-online\/\">Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal live streaming: Watch Premier League online<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/tottenham-and-arsenal-not-in-frame-for-raheem-sterling-ahead-of-summer-move\/\">Tottenham and Arsenal \u2018not in frame\u2019 for Raheem Sterling ahead of summer move<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 An explanation for the absence of star defender Cristian Romero from Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s squad to face Arsenal has been provided on Thursday evening. The latest edition of the North London Derby is of course set to play out in short order. Amid the tense ongoing battle for the Premier League\u2019s final top-4 berth, Spurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}