Tottenham’s Dele Alli set to miss at least six weeks with hamstring strain

• Forward picked up injury in game against Fulham
• Alli not likely to be back in training until early March

Dele Alli faces a lay-off of at least six weeks, after his worst fears over the severity of the hamstring injury he suffered at Fulham on Sunday were confirmed. Alli stretched as he chased a loose ball into touch in the 86th minute of the game, which Tottenham would win 2-1 and, when he reached his hand back to grab the hamstring and then stayed down, the situation looked bad.

Mauricio Pochettino said as much afterwards and, in his heart, the manager knew that he would be without Alli for a period of games, beginning with the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg at Chelsea on Thursday night. With Harry Kane out until early March with an ankle ligament problem, he simply hoped it would not be too many.

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