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Jose Mourinho: 'Gareth Bale is ready to make his mark'

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The Welshman is almost up to full speed.

Jose Mourinho believes Gareth Bale is "arriving" at peak physical condition and confirmed he will start Tottenham's Europa League game with Royal Antwerp on Thursday.

Bale has been building up his fitness following a knee injury which put the brakes on his second spell at the club following his loan return from Real Madrid.

The Wales international played 60 minutes against LASK last week and looked rusty before being an unused substitute in the 1-0 win at Burnley on Monday.

Mourinho is ready to unleash him against the Belgians and expects him to "fly".

"Bale is playing and we all have not just the feeling, but also the data that Bale is arriving," he said.

"He is working very hard. He is being quite a great example for everybody. A big guy like him, travelled to Burnley, stayed on the bench for 90 minutes, didn't play one minute.

"His behaviour as a team guy is incredible. His behaviour as a Tottenham man is remarkable and he is coming.

"I can see just with my eyes but then the scientific data is also coming and he is working very, very well.

"He is improving, he is improving a lot and I think tomorrow we can see already Gareth at a good level and hopefully he can fly because he is working very hard. So he's playing."

"The area in the dressing room is beautiful, clean, new, safe. Honestly I feel safe. Maybe something wrong happens with myself.

"We finish the game and go home and in our case we don't go home, we go to the training ground and we stay there to prepare for the game on Sunday. We try to do our lives. The world cannot stop. Football is an important area so I am more than ready to keep doing what we are doing."

Mourinho confirmed that Eric Dier and Tanguy Ndombele have not travelled with the squad as they are rested ahead of Sunday's match against Brighton.

Mourinho will make several changes, with the likes of Davinson Sanchez, Steven Bergwijn, Harry Winks and Carlos Vinicius likely to join Bale in the starting XI.

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