Tottenham took to the pitch in the Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong to train ahead of their pre-season match against north London rivals Arsenal
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Who missed out
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Destiny Udogie, Kota Takai and Manor Solomon remained at Hotspur Way for treatment, alongside Radu Dragusin, Dejan Kulusevski and Bryan Gil, who are continuing their rehabilitation. Mikey Moore, Alfie Devine and Dane Scarlett were all granted permission not to travel in order to explore potential opportunities for loan moves.
In Hong Kong,
Dominic Solanke, who had a minor ankle injury which meant he missed out on the weekend's action at Luton, was not involved in the session, only emerging towards the end in trainers in order to take part in the signing session for some of the fans present.
Kevin Danso did some individual work during the session having come off alone on the hour mark on Saturday in the goalless draw at Luton. Rodrigo Bentancur, who was ill at the weekend, was back and involved.
What they did
After their warm-ups, the squad went through some passing drills and rondos. They were then put through some three-quarter pitch runs back and forth before the players took part in a 11 vs 11 half-pitch training game after that with two sides that involved four quarters of football.
There were little team talks beforehand as well with two members of the previous four-strong leadership group in each side.
Cristian Romero and Guglielmo Vicario were in one team with Son Heung-min and James Maddison in the other.
After that there was a penalty shoot-out that ended up bearing little relation to a normal shoot-out and seemed to turn into spot kick practice but there was plenty to see from the session.
Porro and Tel concerns
Both teams wanted to win the game and there were some flashes of skill and some strong tackles going in. The latter was on display when Djed Spence caught
Pedro Porro late after the Spaniard had passed the ball and left his fellow full-back writhing on the floor in agony for a while.
Porro got up and carried on but did look to have the slightest of limps later as he was walking out of the stadium on to the team coach.
The next person to have a training session scare was
Mathys Tel. The Frenchman embarked on a few surging runs and during one of those he picked up a sore looking knock, seemingly to his knee.
That injury drew real concern from the group as everyone gathered around the 20-year-old in a circle as he lay on the floor and it took some time before he got up, heavily limping. Thankfully Tel appeared to run it off and later seemed fine when leaving the ground.
