Hey did you know that Tottenham Hotspur played a behind-closed-doors friendly against Watford today? Me either! Rude of Tottenham not to let us know about this friendly that was clearly about fitness and that they did not want any fans or press at.
But anyway, there’s good news out of that revelation — according to the club on social media, Randal Kolo Muani played half of that match, ostensibly his first non-training minutes since recovering from a severe dead leg earlier in the season.
That is, as the kids say nowadays, bussin’. Kolo Muani has played exactly 14 minutes since joining the club on loan from PSG at the end of the window, and those minutes came at the end of the Champions League match vs. Villarreal almost a month ago. The dead leg apparently took place in training and involved Pape Matar Sarr (who was jokingly sold out in a press conference by Thomas Frank), and while we don’t have any details about what actually happened, the injury was apparently severe with a lot of internal bleeding.
I’m not a doctor, but… ow.
Anyway, having Randal back would be neat. Not only is he a good player that we really haven’t seen yet, but his inclusion in the squad opens up a few intriguing tactical tweaks that were heretofore unavailable to Frank in his lineups. RKM can play up top as a No. 9 which could mean putting Richarlison as a left sided wide support winger, or the other way around with RKM playing wide and hopefully actually giving Richy some service. Regardless, Kolo Muani is a talented attacker, and we could use one or two additional heathy examples of them right now.
It’s also fantastic that he got 45 good match minutes in so early in the international break, because he can then focus on getting his fitness back up before Spurs’ next match against Aston Villa on October 19. Or maybe we’ll see him in the Champions League at Monaco the following Wednesday. Either way, I hope we see him, and soon.
