Pedro Porro has sent a message of support to Antonin Kinsky after his nightmare performance in Tottenham’s 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid within the Champions League on Tuesday night.
In one other nightmare performance for Spurs, Atletico were three ahead after just quarter-hour in the primary leg of their last-16 tie with Kinsky answerable for two of the goals.
Kinsky, who was making only his third appearance of the season, was then substituted by Igor Tudor within the seventeenth minute with Guglielmo Vicario replacing him goal for the rest of the sport.
The 22-year-old, who joined Spurs in a £12.5 million deal from Slavia Prague 14 months ago, was blanked by Tudor on the touchline before he headed straight down the tunnel.
‘I need to send him a message of support,’ Porro told Movistar Plus after Spurs defeat when asked about Kinsky’s substitution.
‘It’s a tricky time for him straight away. The lad has been working really hard. He also had Vicario ahead of him who was doing well, and if you get a likelihood, this stuff occur… sometimes that’s football.
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‘It jogs my memory of my slip in Scotland with Spain. You may have to choose yourself up. I haven’t been in a position to talk over with him yet, but I’ll give him an enormous hug now.’
Tudor, meanwhile, revealed after his fourth defeat accountable for Spurs that he had spoken to Kinsky within the dressing room.
‘We’d like to apologise to the fans, incredibly difficult to clarify, these 20 minutes I’ve never seen in my life within the Champions League at this level, very strange to clarify,’ Tudor said.
‘I’m sorry for the guy also, I needed to take him [off] to preserve him, to assist him, to assist the team, it was not a pleasant thing.
‘But Toni understands, he’s a excellent goalkeeper, a very good guy, we’d like to remain together now, attempt to help one another in a difficult moment.’
Asked if he had spoken to Kinsky, Tudor replied: ‘In fact, of we speak.
‘He understands all the things, it’s an enormous lesson, unfortunately it happened on this big game.
‘Sport is like this, it’s not even about him it’s about us. We’d like to maintain working.’
Atletico head coach Diego Simeone was also asked about Tudor’s decision to substitute Kinsky.
‘No, I hadn’t seen that at an expert level,’ Simeone said.
‘It’s not my problem, it’s theirs, their coach’s and the goalkeeper’s, and we’re focused on ourselves, not on another person’s decision-making.’
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