Vertonghen suffered ankle ligament damage during
Tottenham's 2-1 win over Fulham last week, and given that Vlad Chiriches
and Younes Kaboul are currently injured, Spurs need their top
centre-back to return as soon as possible.
In order
to get Vertonghen back in first-team action as soon as possible, Spurs
will take a sample of the player's blood, remove the platelets - the
cells that assist the healing process - and inject them back into the
injured area.
The technique, known as PRP
(platelet-rich plasma), is supposed to improve injury recovery time, and
given that Spurs have six games in the next 17 days, they need the
player available as soon as possible.
"We will have
the player in a boot for one to two weeks to try to settle it,"
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said of Vertonghen.
"We want to avoid surgery so we will use PRP treatment to try to get him back as soon as possible.
"We've had outstanding results with PRP treatment and we will do that again now."
Villas-Boas,
just like his former mentor Jose Mourinho, is a firm believer in PRP,
which has been declared legal by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The Portuguese used it to speed up the recovery of Jermain Defoe and Gareth Bale last season.
Chiriches
will undergo the treatment in order to help him overcome the knee
injury that kept him out of last weekend's win at Sunderland.
Spurs
have clawed their way back into the race for the top four recently
following a draw against Manchester United and wins over Sunderland and
Fulham.
Given that they face Liverpool, Southampton
and Manchester United over the next few weeks, Spurs need to have all
their best players fit, but Villas-Boas is sure he will have enough
cover in defence over the festive period.
"Etienne
Capoue had an excellent performance against Sunderland, Vlad could be
back on Sunday so we still have enough cover," Villas-Boas said.
"In extreme situations we have Sandro and Kyle Walker, who have played in that position before too."
The
good news from a foggy Enfield on Wednesday morning was that Christian
Eriksen and Danny Rose are both back in first-team training.
Rose's return, after three months out with a toe injury, is particularly welcome now that Vertonghen has been sidelined.
"It took so much time for the joint to heal," Villas-Boas said of Rose.
"Now it's good news because we have him back, almost fit."
Rose and Eriksen are set to feature in Thursday's Europa League game against Anzhi Makhachkala.
One person who will not play is Emmanuel Adebayor even though he has returned to training following a knee injury.
Villas-Boas, who has not started Adebayor once this season, gave no reason for the Togo striker's absence.
Instead, young striker Shaquile Coulthirst looks set to feature against Anzhi.
Fellow academy products Ryan Fredericks and Laste Dombaxe are also in the squad. Villas-Boas can
afford to rotate his squad for the game at White Hart Lane as his team have already qualified as Group K winners.
Their
opponents are guaranteed second place in the group, and their squad has
been so decimated by injury that they have only brought 20 people -
including the coaching staff - to London.
After
significant investment by billionaire owner Suleiman Kerimov, Anzhi
embarked on a radical cost-cutting venture earlier this season.
They
sold well-paid players like Willian, Samuel Eto'o and Lassana Diarra.
They now sit bottom of the Russian Premier League having not won a match
all season.
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