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Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky during the Champions League round of 16, first leg defeat to Atletico. Photo: Bradley Collyer\/PA Wire<\/p>\n
But Tudor claimed: \u201cIt was the right decision to pick him (Kinsky) before. Toni is a very good goalkeeper. Unfortunately what happened, happened. Afterwards it is easy to say it was not a right decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened very rare things in my coaching 15 years, I never do that. It was necessary to preserve the guy, to preserve the team. Incredible situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kinsky gave the ball away for Atletico\u2019s sixth-minute opener, scored by Marcos Llorente, and presented it straight to Julian Alvarez for their third goal.<\/p>\n
Tudor denied that captain Cristian Romero told him to take Kinsky off and explained why he ignored the upset goalkeeper as he went off, adding: \u201cWe don’t need to comment. We don’t need to speak too much.<\/p>\n
\u201cI explained to Toni, also speaking after, that he is the right guy and a good goalkeeper. Unfortunately, it happened in this big game, these mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tudor said Kinsky was apologetic in the dressing room and accepted the decision to take him off.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHe was sorry. He made an excuse for the team. The team is with him. Me too. I was speaking with him. He understands the moment. He understands why he go out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tudor has lost all four games since Tottenham appointed him and said he was not worried about being sacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not a topic for me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not about my job, it is about how to help the team. It will be always be about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spurs are waiting to discover if Romero and substitute Joao Palhinha are concussed after an injury-time clash of heads, which would rule them out of Sunday\u2019s Premier League game against Liverpool.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will see,\u201d Tudor said. \u201cSometimes it is difficult to explain. It looks like everything is against us. Incredible things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Croatian, who replied \u201cno comment\u201d when asked if he deserved to remain in charge of Spurs, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,3568],"class_list":["post-340299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}