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<\/p>\nThe Tottenham Hotspur interim head coach is desperate to get players back from the treatment room and on to the pitch as he battles the drop<\/p>\n
Igor Tudor has had a double boost in Tottenham Hotspur training this week<\/p>\n
Tottenham Hotspur interim head coach Igor Tudor is now well aware of the job that faces him and how important getting injured players back will be to his tenure.<\/p>\n
The Croatian has won each of his first games at the five clubs he had joined previously but the 47-year-old found that was not such a straightforward task at Spurs. His debut in the Tottenham <\/a>dugout came against top-of-the-table Arsenal in the season’s second north London derby and despite the hosts keeping all things square at the break, the match ended in a 4-1 defeat and Tudor <\/a>left looking towards the treatment room.<\/p>\n He confirmed to football.london<\/strong> that he was hopeful that he could get both right-back Pedro Porro<\/a> and central defender Kevin Danso<\/a> back in action this weekend and both were training on Wednesday morning at Hotspur Way.<\/p>\n “Yeah, probably [the] two of them. We hope,” said the Tottenham boss on Sunday.<\/p>\n When asked if the job was bigger than he thought before he walked through the door, Tudor added: “You never know. You never know because this is a situation that I never saw. That we have 10 players plus three players [available]. I see the players want to do. The players want [to], okay they are in this position. Now we need to restart again and waiting for the players who are out. For sure, that’s also a big reason. But it is how it is.”<\/p>\n FOLLOW OUR TOTTENHAM FB PAGE! <\/a><\/strong>Latest Spurs news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Having Porro and Danso back in the starting line-up, whether it is for Sunday’s game at Fulham or Thursday’s clash against Crystal Palace at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, will allow Tudor to fix one key problem with his XI – that he is playing midfielders as defenders.<\/p>\n Joao Palhinha is filling in at centre-back while Archie Gray is playing every minute as a right wing-back. Getting either of them back in the centre of the pitch should make Spurs stronger through the middle and more adept at dealing with the back three formation Tudor favours.<\/p>\n Porro will bring some much-needed creativity from the flank with his ability to curl in crosses from the right as well as pinging diagonal cross-field balls into the runs of the strikers and breaking midfielders.<\/p>\n Porro’s involvement and potentially switching around the midfielders would allow Tudor to switch from a 3-4-2-1 to a 3-4-1-2 shape to get balls into Dominic Solanke and either Randal Kolo Muani, who flourished at Juventus under the Croatian, or the fit again Richarlison.<\/p>\n Here’s the line-up we reckon Tudor might go with once he gets Porro and Danso fit and it’s one that could bring goals and more solidity to the team.<\/p>\n (3-4-1-2) <\/strong>Vicario; Danso, Dragusin, Van de Ven; Porro, Gallagher, Palhinha, Spence; Xavi; Kolo Muani, Solanke.<\/p>\n