How long Tottenham’s Cristian Romero will be out with foot injury sustained in Aston Villa game

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Tottenham Hotspur secured three big points on the weekend but the victory may have come at a cost.

Ange Postecoglou went into the game against Aston Villa nursing a few injuries from the past couple of games.

Micky van de Ven has suffered another hamstring issue which is set to keep him out of action for a number of weeks.

Tottenham were still able to prevail with James Maddison bragging about the win over Villa on his social media channels.

However, there were further injury issues to come out of the game in north London with Richarlison coming off prematurely with another muscle concern.

But the biggest concern to come out of the game was to Cristian Romero who suffered an injury issue in the second half of the game.

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Cristian Romero injury update

The centre-back was withdrawn in the early stages of the game against Villa with Postecoglou concerned the Argentine could make his issue worse.

And that seems to have been the correct decision with a fresh update coming out of the defender’s homeland on Tuesday afternoon.

“Cuti Romero has an injury in the right big toe ligament. There is no bone injury (fracture or fissure). It’s milder than it could have been,” said journalist Gaston Edul.

“He’s going to be off for a week or 10 days. Argentina’s list comes out in the next few hours.”

This injury comes just days after Romero struggled with an issue against Manchester City as he was also withdrawn early in the second 45.

The one positive for Romero will be that it would seem he could still be fit enough to play in Argentina’s fixtures this month.

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Which Tottenham games could Romero miss?

Losing Van de Ven and Romero at the same time is now becoming somewhat of a regular occurence for the Lilywhites.

Spurs had to play without their starting two centre-backs absent at the same time towards the end of last year.

Fortunately for Spurs, there is an international break on the horizon but fans will be well aware that Romero is not one to miss out on Argentina’s games.

Romero’s absence will provide Radu Dragusin with a big opportunity to prove himself with Postecoglou now needing a real leader at the back.

And with games against the likes of Galatasaray coming up, Postecoglou will have a lot of faith in Dragusin after his recent displays in the starting XI.