Jose Mourinho is extremely limited at present when it comes to his attacking options.
Without Harry Kane and Son Heung-min through injury, it has meant that the likes of Dele Alli, Lucas Moura and Steven Bergwijn have not been able to take a much-needed breather during their hectic schedule.
Both Lucas and Bergwijn had to be substituted against Norwich City in the FA Cup on Wednesday evening due to the real prospect of them both leaving the pitch with an injury.
With only a couple of days to recover before Saturday evening's trip to Burnley, the head coach has opened up on the duo's fitness and stated that they may have to put a plan in place in regards to how they use them at Turf Moor.
"They are players with a but," he told football.london at his pre-match press conference. "Steven comes from Holland, one match per week, completely different league, completely different intensity. You can imagine that to play, play, play here is a different world.
"Lucas I think he's never played as much in his life, or in Paris or here in Mauricio's period he was never like a first choice player.
"When he was playing, he was playing 20 minutes, he was in one game and didn't play the second.
"From the perspective of rotation when you have lots of players in the same positions, it happened in Paris. It happened here at Tottenham with Lucas, Lamela, Kane, Llorente, Son, lots of options.
"In the past three months he's found himself in a position where he's got to play every minute. Even in positions that are not originally his positions. So he's being absolutely incredible for me.
"So yes there are buts behind them, but they have to play. They have to play. If not we are throwing away our chances of winning matches. So we have to go with them.
"We have to analyse how, we have to analyse if both at the same time and go with everything we have from the beginning, keep them on the bench and the game plan is to try to go later or split minutes between them.
"We had to try to find the best strategy to try to win matches, but also to give the players the best chance to perform."
