Christopher Nkunku played for more than one half of football against Brighton, scoring the match-winning goal.
However, Mauricio Pochettino is not confident that the Frenchman is prepared to start against Bournemouth in the final game of the season.
"He played more than we expected because of the problem with Mudryk, he played 70 minutes [if you include injury time], a little longer than we planned," Pochettino said.
"Tomorrow we will assess whether he can start. For sure 90 minutes is difficult for him to play and we played Wednesday and now on Sunday again. If you don’t have one week to recover, it’s a little shorter.
"We need to not take risks. With the performance staff and the medical staff, we will make the best decision for him first and then for the team.
"It is easy now to say he will start the game but we cannot take the risk because he needs to finish well, with good feelings, and be ready for pre-season. The same as Reece James."
