Phillips injury boost, Johnson covers up - 4 things spotted in Tottenham training for Everton

Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham team have been putting in the hard work at Hotspur Way as they prepare for Saturday's Premier League encounter against Everton. Victorious last Friday evening with a 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest, the Lilywhites will be targeting another three points as they look to make it three successive victories.

Everton themselves are on a winning run after making it four wins on the spin last weekend following their 2-0 triumph at Burnley. In total, Sean Dyche's side have won ten of their last 15 games in all competitions coming into Saturday's game in N17.

As ever, Tottenham provided a brief insight into one of their training sessions at Hotspur Way during the week with a video uploaded to their YouTube account on Wednesday evening. Here are four things we spotted in the session as the players stepped up their preparations for the Everton encounter.

Tottenham have endured some rotten luck on the injury front over the past two months but things do at least appear to be looking up for Postecoglou. Losing summer signing Ashley Phillips to an ankle injury during November's international break, the head coach revealed that his player was facing a month on the sidelines.

One of those perhaps looking likely to be involved again at the turn of the year, Phillips could be seen training with the rest of his teammates in the video at Hotspur Way. Warming up with the squad and doing a number of sprints, the ex-Blackburn Rovers man and all the others involved in training then took part in a possession-based game and also a shooting drill involving the attackers.

Not exactly blessed with many options at centre-back at present as Micky van de Ven is also on the sidelines, the return of Phillips to training comes as a