Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario also defended his team-mate on TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
“He’s our captain and today he made a mistake,” he said. “But we know the player he is.<\/p>\n
“He’s going to come back stronger, for sure, and he’ll help us throughout the rest of the season.”<\/p>\n
But Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy was clear Romero “let his team-mates down”, adding: “It is irresponsible, especially after a week where he’s been talking about recruitment and a lack of players.<\/p>\n
“He’s the captain, the leader – he needs to do better.”<\/p>\n
Murphy wasn’t the only pundit critical of Romero.<\/p>\n
“You just know he’s got that switch,” Joe Hart, who played for Tottenham<\/a> among others, told TNT Sports. “He doesn’t need to do that. He just smashes him.<\/p>\n “Is he a good leader? I don’t know. He must be from what we don’t see because Thomas Frank seems to stand by him no matter what.”<\/p>\n Former Manchester United<\/a> midfielder Owen Hargreaves was similarly unimpressed.<\/p>\n “When he looks at it back he’ll think ‘why did I do that?’,” he said.<\/p>\n “He’s club captain. He needs to be leading by example – but that’s not the example he needs to be setting.”<\/p>\n Frank has made it clear Romero will still be captain when he returns for that Liverpool<\/a> game, which will split two Champions League last-16 ties, when Juventus and Atletico Madrid are two of the four opponents they could meet.<\/p>\n