LONDON
\nTottenham manager Antonio Conte has suggested he will only select players who were not involved in the World Cup for his side\u2019s Boxing Day match at Brentford.
\nThe Premier League resumes on Monday, just eight days after the World Cup final in Qatar.
\nConte has already said his players who were involved in the final – France\u2019s Hugo Lloris and Argentina\u2019s Cristian Romero – will not face the Bees.
\n\u201cI am not really happy,\u201d Conte said.
\n\u201cIn one hand, you are happy because for my club, Tottenham, to have 12 players at the World Cup it means that we are in the right way to try to be competitive and to try to win something.
\n\u201cBut it is normal that when you have so many players play a tournament like this, especially during the season, that now it is not easy because the physical condition is not at the top.
\n\u201cIt is impossible to give them a lot of rest and for sure with the players that didn\u2019t play the World Cup and we work for four weeks, now they are in a great physical condition.
\n\u201cWe worked a lot on the tactical aspect and physical aspect. Now they are at a level that is better than the players who finished the World Cup.
\n\u201cFor this reason I think I have to make the best decision for the game against Brentford. On one side I have players who I worked with for four weeks really well and on the other side, I have players who worked at the World Cup and are not at the top at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has suggested he will only select players who were not involved in the World Cup for his side\u2019s Boxing Day match at Brentford. The Premier League resumes on Monday, just eight days after the World Cup final in Qatar. Conte has already said his players who were involved in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n