SPURS head coach Jose Mourinho said yesterday that he does not expect key forward Son Heung-min to play again this season.

Earlier yesterday, Tottenham’s press team said that the South Korea international may be out for several weeks having fractured his right arm in Sunday’s 3-2 win over Aston Villa.

Son played until the whistle despite the first-minute injury — scoring two goals including the injury-time winner. But Mourinho said he believes the break and surgery will be much more disruptive than the club’s statement implied.

It is a massive blow to Spurs, who could also be without Harry Kane for the rest of the season, given the fact Son has scored six goals in the last five games.

Mourinho described the news as heartbreaking and says that he must now “play without a striker.”

“I’m don’t count on him again this season,” he said ahead of Tottenham’s Champions League tie with Leipzig tonight.

“If he plays two or three games then it’s because [the press officer] is very optimistic, but I’m not counting on him.

“Yeah, bad news. We miss him. According to Simon [Felstein, press officer] for a number of weeks.

“Yesterday the bad news — the first thing was to break our hearts and the second thing was to break our team.

“But we have to recover from broken hearts and we have to fight with the team we have.”

The timing could not be worse for Spurs given that they are entering a possible season-defining period, with the two-legged Champions League tie with the Bundesliga side and games against top-four rivals Chelsea, Wolves and Manchester United in the next four weeks.

Mourinho has no out-and-out striker to call on, having declared academy prospect Troy Parrott not ready, meaning options are limited to playing Lucas Moura, Dele Alli or Steven Bergwijn.

“The situation couldn’t be worse in terms of options,” Mourinho said. 

“I think that’s a very, very, very obvious situation. There is nothing that you can do.

“You are going to play with the players we have available. The players are going to give absolutely everything which is what they are doing. In some periods I was worried about not having attacking options on the bench.

“Now I don’t have attacking options on the pitch.

“So again, analogies apart, are we going to give up or are we going to fight the way we can? We are going to fight the way we can.”

Spurs made it to last season’s Champions League final through a period of adversity and Mourinho hopes Leipzig underestimate them at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tonight.

“I’m not going to give up and probably opponents, they are thinking, ‘Wow, now is the time to kill them’,” he said.

“I understand why they think that way but we are going to give everything and I don’t think it’s going to be easy for Leipzig to play against us.

“I don’t think it will be easy for them.”

Erik Lamela will be assessed ahead of the game, but Son joins Kane, Moussa Sissoko and Juan Foyth on the club’s growing injury list.