"Terrible. I'll be completely honest with you, it's actually a doomsday scenario, everything that could go wrong in the first 20 minutes went wrong. Everyone's slipping. I slipped myself too, you know. Those are moments where you just really can't do anything about it. But I can't really stand here and start blaming the field."
"For 15 minutes we just conceded goals that you really can't do anything about. Again, I can't go blaming the field here, so yeah, that was just really tough. You could just come out here and give the standard talk about how 'we all need to stick together and work hard', but right now we're just taking blow after blow after blow."
"So it's just really tough. And now we also have an important match this weekend that I won't be able to play in because I'm suspended of course. But yeah, it's a really terrible period, I can tell you that. It's really, really awful."
Tottenham experienced a devastating 5-2 loss to Atletico Madrid in their Champions League first leg, with Atleti scoring four goals in just 22 minutes—the second-fastest such occurrence in competition history. Goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky was replaced after 17 minutes due to critical errors, with Guglielmo Vicario taking over. Defender Micky van de Ven, who slipped for one goal, described the performance as a "doomsday scenario." The defeat extends Tottenham's losing streak to six consecutive matches across all competitions, their worst in club history, while simultaneously placing them in a Premier League relegation battle. Van de Ven acknowledged the team's struggles, noting they are experiencing repeated setbacks.
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