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Tyrone Marshall

Man City handed boost as Tottenham star suffers injury scare ahead of Champions League tie

Tottenham have been handed another international injury scare ahead of their triple header against Manchester City next month.

The Blues face Spurs in the Champions League quarter-final on April 9 and April 17 and then the two clubs meet in the Premier League on April 20.

But Mauricio Pochettino is sweating over the fitness of right-back Serge Aurier after he limped out of Ivory Coast's Africa Cup of Nations win against Rwanda on Saturday evening after just half an hour after picking up a suspected hamstring injury.

If that diagnosis is confirmed then Aurier is likely to miss at least some of Spurs' April fixtures. It's another headache at right-back for Pochettino, with Kieran Trippier missing the last two games with a muscle injury that has also ruled him out of England duty.

That would leave youngster Kyle Walker-Peters as Tottenham's only fit right-back.

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Aurier was the second Tottenham player to pick up an injury on international duty, with Eric Dier hobbling off in the first half of England's 5-0 win over the Czech Republic on Friday night.

Dier won't travel with England to Montenegro for tomorrow's fixture and has instead returned to his club for treatment on a muscle injury.

"I think he will go back to his club. Hopefully not to serious, bit of a muscular injury but he won't be right for our second game," said Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate.

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