Tottenham striker ruled out until early March with ankle ligament damage

Harry Kane has been dominated out till early March with an ankle ligament harm, Tottenham have confirmed.

The England striker suffered the issue within the dying moments of Spurs’ 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday.

A club statement learn: “Following preliminary assessments, we are able to affirm that Harry Kane has broken ligaments in his left ankle, sustained throughout Sunday’s match.

“He’ll proceed to be monitored by our medical employees as he commences rehabilitation and is anticipated to return to coaching in early March.”

The lack of main scorer Kane, who has 20 targets up to now this season, represents an enormous blow to third-placed Tottenham’s titles hopes, with Mauricio Pochettino’s facet now some 9 factors behind leaders Liverpool.

Kane’s spell on the sidelines compounds what has been a unprecedented season of accidents for Spurs.

They now look significantly in need of choices up entrance, with Heung-min Son away on worldwide responsibility and Lucas Moura additionally out via harm.

The membership are anticipated to promote each Fernando Llorente and Vincent Janssen this summer season, which would go away them with out a recognised senior striker till Kane’s return.

Kane is now set to overlook the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final towards Chelsea, which Spurs lead 1-0, on January 24, in addition to the primary leg of the Champions League last-16 tie at dwelling to Borussia Dortmund subsequent month.

Spurs may even be lacking their star man for at the very least six scheduled Premier League matches, together with the journey to Stamford Bridge on February 27.

Kane can be extremely prone to be unavailable for the north London derby towards Arsenal on March 2 and the return assembly with Dortmund three days later.

Kane responded to the information of his harm on Twitter, and mentioned: “Accidents are a part of the sport however no-one might be working more durable to get again match. Thanks for the messages.”