Antonio Conte has warned his Tottenham players that “nobody is undroppable” as he targets a reaction to their Champions League defeat at Sporting Lisbon.
Spurs face bottom-of-the-table Leicester City in the Premier League on Saturday, four days after registering their first defeat of the campaign with a 2-0 reverse at the Estadio Jose Alvalade.
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Son Heung-Min, who tied with Liverpool‘s Mohamed Salah for last season’s Premier League Golden Boot, has come under scrutiny after a slow start to the season and when asked whether the South Korean was undroppable, Conte said: “There are no players that are undroppable.
“This has to be very clear. There are no players that are undroppable. Because if I tell this, it’s only to try to help my players and to try to avoid injuries, to try to have players at the top of their form and to have a good performance.
“If I am telling this it is only to protect my players and to give them the possibility to be, in every moment, at the top. Then you know very well you can play one game well, another you can score, another not, but my task is to try to protect my players and to protect the team. Also to find the right way to have a result.”
