Redknapp reeling from injury woes

HARRY REDKNAPP spent longer than normal revealing the full extent of the injury crisis after a game that sent Tottenham back into the top four.

“Tom Huddlestone will have a scan and we’ll see how it is,” said Redknapp. “I don’t know how bad his injury is, it doesn’t look all that good at the moment. But we are running out of central-midfield players. We’ve only got three anyway, we’ve got Palacios, Tom and Jermaine Jenas.

“Jenas looks like having an operation on Wednesday probably, we don’t know how Tom is and Wilson’s on nine bookings so it’s not an ideal situation. It’s an area we’ve been light on all year, really.”

Vedran Corluka and Palacios were also fighting the effects of a virus that swept through Spurs this week – but they were out of the blocks quickly against David Moyes’ men and took the lead in the 11th minute when Roman Pavlyuchenko netted his sixth goal in four games.

“Pav scores goals, that’s five goals in the last two-and-a-quarter games,” said Redknapp. “It’s good, it gives me a nice problem, I’ve got good front men.”

Luka Modric added the second when he rounded off a slick move, involving fellow Croatians Corluka and Niko Kranjcar, with a finish that went in off the underside of the crossbar.

“It was one of the best goals I’ve scored,” Modric said. “We know each other from the national team. I’m very happy but the most important thing is that we won this game, it was a massive win.”