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Losing is nothing new to this Tottenham side, and this one leaves their Champions League hopes hanging by a thread, but the damage of this loss will extend far beyond this competition.
Their problems domestically are so vast, with the threat of relegation so real, that this tie was only ever going to be a sidenote in the rest of their season, but with the pressure off, this was at least a free hit. It was the chance to build some much-needed confidence for the Premier League run-in, where they must, somehow, find a way to start winning games.
Nothing about it, however, could have gone any worse.
Manager Igor Tudor, who is now the first Tottenham manager ever to lose his first four games in charge of the club, made the inexplicable decision to replace first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario with back-up Antonín Kinsky. That decision proved a complete, total, utter disaster.
Kinsky’s last Spurs appearance was in the League Cup defeat at Newcastle in October, where he misjudged a cross horribly to gift the opposition a goal. Here, thrown in on the biggest stage there is, he had the kind of nightmare from which it may be difficult to recover.
Inside six minutes, he slipped when trying to make a clearance, only to miscue the ball straight to Atlético forward Ademola Lookman. Within seconds, Marcos Llorente had opened the scoring.
Antoine Griezmann then pounced on a slip from Micky van de Ven to make it 2-0, before Kinsky made an even more catastrophic error to give Julián Alvarez a tap-in into an empty net.
After just 16 minutes, five touches of the ball, two errors leading to an opposition goal and three goals conceded, Kinsky was hooked. Tudor admitted he had got it wrong, and withdrew his goalkeeper. Given quite how disastrous this performance was, there is every chance that the Czech 22-year-old will never be seen in a Spurs shirt again.
But while Kinsky’s nightmare was over, Spurs’ most certainly was not. Robin Le Normand added a fourth from a set-piece, and Atlético were 4-0 up inside 22 minutes. It was the second-earliest that a team has scored four goals in a Champions League match, after Real Madrid vs Dinamo Zagreb in November 2011 (20 minutes).
Pedro Porro pulled a goal back four minutes later to give Spurs some hope, and they nearly got another one when Cristian Romero headed against the post from a corner. Spurs managed to steady the ship until half-time, and went in 4-1 down at the break, which, given where they were after 22 minutes, felt like some progress.
Early in the second half, they hinted at making a game of it, but Richarlison headed straight at Jan Oblak in the Atlético goal from close range, and they were swiftly punished for that glaring miss. Just 12 seconds later, the ball was in the Spurs net.
The ball was cleared and Griezmann both took it down and laid it off to the onrushing Alvarez with one beautiful touch to set the Argentian away. He raced through the middle of the pitch and finished calmly past Vicario. Since his debut in the Champions League in 2022, Alvarez (22 goals, 8 assists) is one of only five players to record 30+ goal involvements after Kylian Mbappé (40), Vinícius Júnior (39), Harry Kane (36) and Erling Haaland (35).
There was a late consolation as Dominic Solanke fired high into the net after a poor pass from Oblak, but that was to be the end of the scoring on a madcap night in Madrid.
A three-goal deficit for a team in as dreadful form as Tottenham are means this tie is as good as over. Spurs’ Champions League campaign will surely end at the last-16 stage, and who knows when they will be back in this competition.
But their problems are so much bigger than a thrashing away to a decent Atlético Madrid side. Their confidence was already at rock bottom before this game, but they managed to suffer a defeat that could set them back even further on the domestic front. They have now lost six consecutive matches in all competitions for the first time in their history.
Relegation is looming, and Spurs are showing no signs of being able to escape.
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Atlético Madrid vs Tottenham Post-Match Facts
Tottenham Hotspur have lost six consecutive matches in all competitions for the first time in their history. Atlético Madrid have scored more goals than any other side in the UEFA Champions League this season (29), with tonight the first time they’ve scored 5+ in a knockout stage match in the competition. Igor Tudor has become the first manager to lose each of his first four games in charge of Tottenham in all competitions.Enjoy this? Subscribe to our football newsletter to receive exclusive weekly content. You should also follow our social accounts over on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
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