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Spurs teen joins in first team training as Postecoglou struggles with one thing
Alasdair Gold
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The Tottenham players were put through their paces on Wednesday morning ahead of their big Europa League quarter-final first leg clash against Eintracht Frankfurt.

Spurs’ stuttering season of struggle hinges upon what happens on Thursday night and then the second leg in Germany next week as Ange Postecoglou looks to end a difficult campaign with some rare silverware for the north London club. The players were out on the Hotspur Way pitches on Wednesday morning as they went through their final preparations for the midweek match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Here are five things we noticed during the initial open stages of the session that the media were allowed to observe:
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Who was missing?

Only three players were absent from the session and those not taking part were the injured trio of Dejan Kulusevski, Kevin Danso and the long-term absentee Radu Dragusin.

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All of the other usual suspects were involved, including the unregistered Sergio Reguilon and Timo Werner.
Who joined in?

There was a young academy face among the players as 18-year-old defender James Rowswell joined in training with the first team group.
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The teenager, who can play at either centre-back or right-back, was bolstering the numbers with Danso and Dragusin out of action and he looked settled among the senior stars, running on to the training pitches with fellow 18-year-old Archie Gray and slotting into the drills between captain Son Heung-min and vice-captain James Maddison.
Chilly Postecoglou

The Spurs boss came out a couple of minutes after the players did at the Enfield training complex, as they went through their warm-up drills, and immediately looked like the chilly temperatures were not to his liking.

Postecoglou looked visibly cold and soon pulled out a snood that he quickly pulled over his head and after rubbing his arms for a while and shifting from foot to foot, he then also pulled out some gloves from his pockets and put them on. He even started kicking a couple of balls around to up the body heat.

After recent sunny days in England, Wednesday morning’s dip in temperatures appeared to catch the Australian off guard.
What they did

The media only get to see the first 15 minutes of the European open training sessions so it was all very light stuff on the whole, not that it’s going to be hugely intensive anyway on the morning before a match.

The session began with stretching and jogging drills before going into a various passing exercises before the media were ushered away from the first team area.

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