{"id":532033,"date":"2026-03-10T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:20:08","slug":"stats-behind-spurs-gk-kinskys-shocking-early-sub-off-vs-atletico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532033\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats behind Spurs GK Kinsky’s shocking early sub off vs. Atl\u00e9tico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goalkeeper Anton\u00edn Kinsky<\/a> suffered a nightmare UEFA Champions League<\/a> debut for Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> on Tuesday after being substituted just 17 minutes into the round-of-16 tie after conceding three goals and committing two huge howlers.<\/p>\n

The Czechia U21 international’s performance was so humiliating that former England<\/a> and Spurs keeper Joe Hart, calling the game for TNT Sports, said he was “heartbroken for the lad” after coach Igor Tudor hauled him off following his disastrous start.<\/p>\n

Kinsky’s substitution ties the earliest a goalkeeper has ever been replaced in the knockout stages (Gregory Coupet, Lyon, 2004 round of 16). Tottenham’s 3-0 deficit after 15 minutes was the earliest that a team had been so far behind in a Champions League knockout-stage match, and their four goals conceded in 22 minutes were the second fastest in Champions League history (Real Madrid vs. Dinamo Zagreb in November 2011).<\/p>\n

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Kinsky, 22, had been handed his first appearance since a 2-0 Carabao Cup<\/a> defeat at Newcastle United<\/a> last October by Tudor, who had dropped first-choice Guglielmo Vicario<\/a> after the Italy<\/a> keeper had conceded 13 goals in a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

But a slip by Kinsky gifted Marcos Llorente<\/a> the opening goal for Atl\u00e9ti on six minutes, and a minute after Antoine Griezmann<\/a> made it 2-0 on 14 minutes, Kinsky mis-kicked a clearance to allow Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/a> to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n

Tudor then replaced Kinsky with Vicario and the Spurs coach refused to look at the young keeper as he left the pitch.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been trying to make sense of it,” former Spurs, Manchester City<\/a> and England keeper Hart said. “My heart is absolutely broken for [Kinsky].<\/p>\n

“He had a horrible 14 minutes, that slip and the third goal. I don’t know what to say. I am just heartbroken for the lad.”<\/p>\n

Paul Robinson, also a former Spurs and England keeper, echoed Hart’s comments while calling the game for BBC Radio Five.<\/p>\n

“Wow, wow, wow!” Robinson said. “I have never seen that on a football pitch. What a huge call from the manager Igor Tudor. Yes, the goalkeeper was at fault but that is confidence destroying for Anton\u00edn Kinsky.”<\/p>\n

Fiorentina<\/a> goalkeeper David de Gea<\/a>, a longtime starter for Manchester United<\/a>, chimed in on X<\/a> in support of Kinsky.<\/p>\n

“No one who hasn’t been a goalkeeper can understand how difficult it is to play in this position,” he said. “Keep your head up and you will go again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goalkeeper Anton\u00edn Kinsky suffered a nightmare UEFA Champions League debut for Tottenham Hotspur against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-532033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}