Adebayor: Fitness doubt

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Injury worries for Tottenham

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has revealed that a number of his stars are in doubt for this weekend’s crunch clash with Arsenal.

Emmanuel Adebayor (knee), Luka Modric (flu), Rafael van der Vaart, Sandro (both calf) and Benoit Assou-Ekotto (groin) all missed Sunday’s FA Cup tie with Stevenage and Redknapp admits that the group are in doubt for the upcoming London derby derby.

“Benoit had a small operation at the start of the week so he wasn’t available (yesterday),” said Redknapp.

“He should be fit but we will have to see with Adebayor. He did his knee on Friday morning. He twisted it. We thought he might have opened his ligament up but it’s not too bad.

“Luka had an unbelievable temperature. He was really ill this week. That left us short. Ledley King was on the bench and he wasn’t fit.

“Niko Kranjcar had been rough all week as well. He only came in and trained yesterday.”

A win against Arsenal would provide Spurs with a massive boost in their quest to ensure Champions League qualification, with the men from White Hart Lane currently sitting in third spot, 10 points ahead of the Gunners and Chelsea.