Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has revealed he is nearly a month ahead of schedule after returning from a ligament injury.
The Uruguayan has been speaking to Sport 890 in his homeland after making his long-anticipated return from injury over the weekend.
The midfielder has spent the last eight months on the treatment table after suffering a cruciate ligament rupture in February of this year.
That’s seen him spend 254 days on the treatment table and miss 28 Tottenham games to date, including their superb start to the season under new manager Ange Postecoglou.
He made his return to the first team in Friday’s 2-1 win over Crystal Palace, coming on for a minute in the second half of the eventual victory.
That’s a battle the Uruguayan is ready to take up it seems, revealing that the medical team at Tottenham have had to hold him back as it is, with his return a month ahead of the initial schedule.
“That February I finished the game, I walked away. When I told the doctor that I felt a crack during the match, he was honest and said it could be the ligament,” he told 100% Deporte.
“I didn’t suffer during recovery. The knee reacted very well to all the stimuli and increased loads during the process. They only took fluids from me three times.
“The last two months my subconscious began to win over me because I was already ready to play. Today they changed the deadlines to avoid relapses, they ask you for almost nine months and they didn’t want me to return until November 21.”
