"What happened is very rare. I've been coaching for 15 years, I've never done this. It was necessary to preserve the guy, preserve the team. Incredible situation, nothing to comment."
"It was, before the game, the right choice to do in the moment like we are, with the pressure on Vicario, another competition. Tony is a very good goalkeeper. It was for me the right decision."
"He was sorry. The team is with him, me too. I was speaking with him. He understands the moment, he understands why he goes out. As I said, he's a very good goalkeeper. We are with him, we are."
Tottenham suffered a humiliating 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid, with interim head coach Igor Tudor making an unusual decision to substitute 22-year-old goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky after just 17 minutes. Kinsky, making only his second start of the season, made two costly errors that directly resulted in Atletico's first and third goals. Tudor defended the early substitution as necessary to protect both the goalkeeper and the team during a critical period. Tottenham has now lost six consecutive games for the first time in club history and sits just one point above the Premier League relegation zone. Tudor emphasized that Kinsky is a capable goalkeeper and that the team supports him through this difficult moment.
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