Ange Postecoglou says Rodrigo Bentancur is “aware and speaking” after struggling a head damage throughout Tottenham Hotspur’s 1-1 draw with Leicester Metropolis on Monday evening.

The Uruguayan midfielder, 27, was concerned in a head-on-head collision with Leicester’s Abdul Fatawu within the seventy fifth minute of the Premier League fixture on the King Energy Stadium. He’ll proceed to be assessed.

“I don’t have plenty of data,” mentioned Postecoglou when requested for an replace on Bentancur’s situation after full time. “I do know he’s up and speaking. So he’s tremendous from that perspective however clearly a head damage. We go away it within the palms of the medical group. The important thing factor is he’s aware and speaking.”

Following an eight-minute stoppage in play, the midfielder, who obtained oxygen from medics, was sitting up and aware earlier than being stretchered off the sphere. Bentancur was subsequently changed by Spurs summer season signing Archie Grey as a concussion substitute.

The sport was Bentancur’s first on the King Energy since rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament on the stadium in February 2023. The damage stored him out for eight months.