Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou mentioned he had no points with James Maddison going to look at the PDC World Darts Championship simply hours after the midfielder couldn’t begin of their 2-2 home draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers as a consequence of sickness.
Maddison, who got here on in its place within the sixty fourth minute towards Wolves on Sunday, was pictured alongside Spurs teammate Brennan Johnson on the last-16 conflict between Luke Humphries and Peter Wright on the Alexandra Palace in north London.
Injury-hit Spurs drew towards Wolves after targets by Rodrigo Bentancur and Johnson, which left them languishing in eleventh place with 24 factors from 19 matches — the primary time they’ve completed the 12 months decrease than seventh for the reason that 2008-09 season.
“I’ve bought no downside with the gamers having lives,” Postecoglou advised reporters forward of Saturday’s dwelling conflict towards fifth-placed Newcastle United.
“It’s quite a bit completely different attempting to play a recreation of soccer and residing a life. I do not see any downside with that and I do not assume it harm him. He wasn’t 100% and it was a recreation the place we wanted somebody to be 100%. He was nonetheless nicely sufficient to play.
“If he was bed-ridden, did not flip as much as the sport after which nonetheless went to the darts, there could also be a difficulty there. But I had no challenge with that.”
The PDC World Darts Championship concluded on Friday with 17-year-old sensation Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler thrashing Michael van Gerwen 7-3 to turn into the youngest PDC darts world champion.
Postecoglou was proud of 28-year-old Maddison, who has scored eight targets in 19 league appearances this season.
“I nonetheless assume the important thing with Madders is to maintain him match, preserve him wholesome, preserve him sharp, and that is by not taking part in each recreation, particularly with the programme we have got,” Postecoglou added.
