New Tottenham injury scares in training and who was missing from session ahead of Arsenal game

Tottenham held an open training session on Tuesday in front of 10,000 fans at the Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong as they continue their preparations ahead of the first ever north London derby outside of the UK.

Spurs and Arsenal will come up against each other on Thursday and new head coach Thomas Frank continued to get his methods across to his players with their latest training session, this time in front of thousands of supporters at the stadium where they will take on the Gunners.

The Dane has a big squad to work with although certain departments within it are low on numbers due to injuries with players left back at Hotspur Way to recover or rehabilitate.

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Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is in Hong Kong and he was at the Kai Tak Stadium, which had its roof covered, to watch the squad being put through their paces. Here are the things he spotted going on as the north London club worked ahead of their first summer tour game.

Who missed out

If you missed it, 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.

Who was on each side

The two sides had a good blend of experience and youth and all eyes will be on whether one of them is the team that starts against Arsenal and the other starts against Newcastle in Seoul at the weekend, or whether Frank will blend them into his strongest team. The latter seems more likely when you see the spread of some of the names involved.

The first team contained Vicario; Abbott, Van de Van, Romero, Spence, Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Bergvall, Odobert and Richarlison. It's worth noting that Bergvall was in the more advanced number 10 role for periods rather than Sarr who played there against Wycombe.

The other team featured Kinsky; Porro, Vuskovic, Davies, Donley; Gray, Bentancur; Kudus, Maddison, Son and Tel.

There was no Solanke or Danso, as mentioned above, while 16-year-old centre-back Jun'ai Byfield stood behind one of the goals ready to come in if needed and helped get the ball quickly back into play. Yang Min-hyeok and Will Lankshear were both at the other end of the pitch going through shooting drills of their own with Brandon Austin and Luca Gunter.

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.

Penalties

The game ended in a goalless stalemate despite some promising attacking moves and efforts around the two goals, with some particularly close ones from Richarlison, and that meant it was time for a penalty shoot-out with Austin coming over to alternate with Vicario in goal.

The first three penalties from Maddison, Johnson and Porro were all saved by the keepers before Romero stroked a calm spot kick past Austin. Tel then also scored his penalty before Richarlison beat Vicario.

The two teams then came in for a chat with Frank and the coaches before some of the players returned to a shootout with Austin in goal for all the penalties the first batch.

Bissouma beat Austin twice and celebrated on each occasion, getting Austin riled up with the keeper booting the ball back near him at one point.

The goalkeeper did save from Bentancur, was beaten by Sarr before Porro sent his spot kick against the right-hand post. Eighteen-year-old Luka Vuskovic powered home his effort before Gunter had a go between the sticks only to be beaten by both Spence and Bergvall.

Son's waving

After the session the Tottenham players walked around the pitch waving to the fans with Son the most popular man on display on his home continent.

The Spurs captain was behind the main group so got his own walk around, applauding and waving to the 10,000 supporters before signing items for some of them.

The future remains uncertain for the South Korean star at Tottenham and Frank's earlier press conference did nothing to change that. Some local fans were left wondering whether they might be seeing one of the last occasions of Son in a Spurs shirt.

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