With so many of us awaiting details on Rafael Van der Vaart’s fitness ahead of the weekend, today’s team news from White Hart Lane was much too vague for our liking.
There was no mention of the Dutchman at all from Tottenham’s official website, though this may be down to the fact that Van der Vaart is, of course, omitted from the Europa League Group Stages squad.
The player himself has taken to twitter this afternoon and was fairly non-committal, saying nothing more than he was “working hard on fully recovering”.
In a sense, tomorrow night’s Europa League lineup against PAOK could give Fantasy managers pointers as to his availability. With Roman Pavlyuchenko a doubt for the game, Jermain Defoe’s presence in the first-team could perhaps provide a positive hint that Van der Vaart is on his way back for Saturday’s game against Bolton.
Defoe’s omission, though, could point to doubts over the Dutchman’s chances of lining up against the Trotters. Tomorrow’s teamsheet will be of plenty interest to the 14.2% of Fantasy managers currently holding Van der Vaart, with that pesky hamstring problem hanging over him once again.
