Humiliation for Kinsky as Tottenham are thrashed by Atlético Madrid
📖 Full Retelling
<p>Things can aways get worse. Much, <em>much</em> worse. If there is a place below rock bottom, Tottenham seem determined to go there. The Champions League may not be a priority, Igor Tudor publicly declaring survival their only concern, but that didn’t make it any less painful, nor easier to forget. This, instead, will linger for a long time. It wasn’t even the 5-2 defeat that hurt, not really, and it certainly wasn’t their now inevitable exit from Europe: it was how it happe
Entity Intersection Graph
No entity connections available yet for this article.
Original Source
Humiliation for Kinsky as Tottenham are thrashed by Atlético Madrid Things can aways get worse. Much, much worse. If there is a place below rock bottom, Tottenham seem determined to go there. The Champions League may not be a priority, Igor Tudor publicly declaring survival their only concern, but that didn’t make it any less painful, nor easier to forget. This, instead, will linger for a long time. It wasn’t even the 5-2 defeat that hurt, not really, and it certainly wasn’t their now inevitable exit from Europe: it was how it happened, the opening 20 minutes quite possibly the stupidest, most absurd, most astonishing minutes of football you have ever seen. If, that is, you can really call it football all; this was a dramatic act of self-destruction that ‘Spursy’ doesn’t get anywhere near, both deeply comic and also desperately sad, the final ridiculous scene of a tragedy, the ultimate humiliation. Only, terrifyingly, that may still be to come, because if this the Metropolitano was a testing ground for the fight against relegation as the manager said, the conclusion can only be that the abyss is opening up. There could be no joy, certainly, in watching poor Antonin Kinsky heading down the tunnel, broken and withdrawn on just 16 minutes, inconsolable after glaring errors led to two of the goals that had already given Atlético a 3-0 lead. Micky van de Ven had handed Atlético the other and no sooner had Vicario come on to replace the Czech keeper than he had conceded the fourth, Spurs again complicit in their own demise, a Pape Sarr header towards his own goal leading to the fourth. Pedro Porro pulled one back before half-time but there was no way back from this – not now, not ever – with goals from Julián Alvarez and Dominic Solanke completing the scoring on the night Spurs returned to the stadium where they played the 2019 Champions League final, watched by Mauricio Pochettino. A reminder, tinged with regret, that they were good once. They are not now. Tudor had said...
Read full article at source