{"id":740,"date":"2019-02-28T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/he-is-a-great-player-pochettino-backs-walker-peters-as-ready-for-barcelona-challenge\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:45:25","slug":"he-is-a-great-player-pochettino-backs-walker-peters-as-ready-for-barcelona-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"'He is a great player'- Pochettino backs Walker-Peters as ready for Barcelona challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
Serge Aurier’s injury at Leicester City means the youngster might have to start for Tottenham at right-back versus the Spanish giants <\/div>\n
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino would have no qualms over throwing youngster Kyle-Walker Peters into Tuesday’s crunch Champions League clash against Barcelona.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old right-back made his first Premier League appearance of the season when Serge Aurier limped out of Saturday’s otherwise routine 2-0 win over Leicester City.<\/p>\n

England full-back Kieran Trippier is expected to miss the trip to Camp Nou after a recurrence of his troublesome groin injury, meaning Walker-Peters could be left with a daunting assignment against the likes of Ousmane Dembele \u2013 although Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde has hinted Lionel Messi may be rested with his side already through.<\/p>\n

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Tottenham need to better Inter’s result against PSV when they face Barca in order to progress from Group B.<\/p>\n

“The squad is the most important. Today Kyle Walker-Peters had the responsibility to play. If they [Trippier and Aurier] are not ready Kyle is going to play,” Pochettino told BT Sport <\/em> .<\/p>\n

“He is a great player, younger, but he is going to give his best if we need to play with him.”<\/p>\n

Pochettino’s men are six points behind new leaders Liverpool and five shy of champions Manchester City, who suffered a first league defeat of the campaign at Chelsea on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“There are a lot of games to play. We still haven’t finished this half of the season,” the Argentinian said, pondering his team’s prospects in the title race.<\/p>\n

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“The gap is five and six points. If you compare to last season it is a much better gap. We reduced that gap.<\/p>\n

“But that doesn\u2019t mean anything because it is a long way to the go in the season. The most important thing is to be there in the last six or seven games of the season to fight.<\/p>\n

“We are going to try. We are going to be solid and show that we deserve to be there.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serge Aurier’s injury at Leicester City means the youngster might have to start for Tottenham at right-back versus the Spanish giants Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino would have no qualms over throwing youngster Kyle-Walker Peters into Tuesday’s crunch Champions League clash against Barcelona. The 21-year-old right-back made his first Premier League appearance of the season when … <\/p>\n

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