{"id":296519,"date":"2023-10-20T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=296519"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:26:44","slug":"dejan-kulusevski-is-ready-to-play-for-tottenham-against-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/dejan-kulusevski-is-ready-to-play-for-tottenham-against-fulham\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejan Kulusevski is &apos;ready&apos; to play for Tottenham against Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dejan Kulusevski is &#8216;fine&#8217; and &#8216;ready&#8217; to play for Tottenham against Fulham, confirms Ange Postecoglou&#8230; despite winger being locked inside a stadium in Brussels while away with Sweden following terror attack<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two Sweden supporters were shot dead in Brussels before kick off on Monday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Players and fans were locked inside the ground\u00a0for protection after the attack<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dejan Kulusevski is ready to return for Tottenham despite being among the players and thousands of fans locked inside a stadium in Brussels this week during a terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Tottenham midfielder was part of the Sweden team that saw its Euro 2024 qualifier against Belgium abandoned at half-time after two travelling supporters were shot dead in the capital hours before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou spoke to Kulusevski after his return to Tottenham and confirmed the forward is in the right frame of mind to face Fulham on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s fine,&#8217; said Postecoglou. &#8216;I had a chat with him. Like everyone else, we shake our heads at these things. We go to a football game and these things happen. It&#8217;s sad, confronting how close it comes to your own world but Decky is fine. He&#8217;s back, trained yesterday (Thursday) with the team and is ready to go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fans and players and were held inside the King Baudouin Stadium for more two hours on Monday night with the gunman, who claimed to be a member of ISIS, still at large until he was later shot and killed by police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/13\/76800189-0-image-a-91_1697805857804.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham forward Dejan Kulusevski is available for selection for Spurs&#8217; game against Fulham<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/13\/76800137-0-image-a-92_1697805863214.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kulusevski (right) was playing for Sweden when their match against Belgium was abandoned at half time after a terror attack<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/13\/76627391-0-Police_spokeswoman_Ilse_Vande_Keere_said_officers_arrived_soon_a-a-95_1697805886873.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two people wearing football shirts were killed and another injured in Brussels before the game<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>The Sweden team, which included Kulusevski and Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof, was given a police escort to the airport after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The game was level at 1-1 before Sweden\u2019s players refused to leave the dressing room at half-time and, after Lindelof visited Belgium\u2019s dressing room, there was widespread agreement that the game be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish players and staff spoke to the travelling supporters in the concourse before they began to evacuate the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA confirmed the match would not be replayed with the score standing as the final result.<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou confirmed on Friday that none of his players had returned from the international break with any injury issues.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan Johnson, who has been absent since the end of September, should be back available for selection despite not playing for Wales in the last fortnight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/13\/76800139-0-image-a-93_1697805866335.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The game between Belgium and Sweden was level at 1-1 before its abandonment, with the half time score standing as the final result<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/13\/76800705-0-image-m-97_1697806423729.jpg\" height=\"467\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brennan Johnson, meanwhile, is expected to be available for selection for the Fulham game after a month out injured<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;It&#8217;s been a positive international break in terms of availability, everybody is back and there are no issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Lo Celso played for Argentina which was great. Brennan had a solid couple of weeks of training which has been good for him, along with Gil and Bentancur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The game being on Monday night helps us. We&#8217;ll give Bennan a few days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re being careful with Bentancur. He&#8217;s fully training and he&#8217;s coped well with it. We&#8217;re mindful that he&#8217;s missed a fair bit of football. We&#8217;ll pick our moment and looking forward to getting him back.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12653775\/Dejan-Kulusevski-fine-ready-Tottenham-Fulham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dejan Kulusevski is &#8216;fine&#8217; and &#8216;ready&#8217; to play for Tottenham against Fulham, confirms Ange Postecoglou&#8230; despite winger being locked inside <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dejan Kulusevski is &amp;apos;ready&amp;apos; 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