Is Tudor’s Spurs reign nearly up after solely 4 video games?

Atletico, with out being above common in these ill-fated 23 minutes, have been 4-0 up, Micky van de Ven additionally failing to maintain his footing to current Antoine Griezmann with a objective.

The remaining rating makes the second leg of this final 16 tie a formality. Spurs solely have a combat for survival now.

Tudor’s distinctive promoting level in a chequered, nomadic coach profession was supposedly his capability to offer an prompt spark of affect. At Spurs, this has been The Midas Touch in reverse. The Minus Touch.

Four defeats from 4 video games is the worst begin by anybody in cost at Spurs, with every yet one more damaging and demoralising than the final. Tudor will not be arresting the Spurs disaster, he’s accelerating it.

On his personal future, Tudor stated: “This is not a topic for me. This is not about my job. It is about helping the team.”

As but, Tudor has not fulfilled his a part of the cut price. His days should now be measured in very small numbers.

Tudor has demonstrated he isn’t afraid to make the large calls. The snag is he’s getting them unsuitable when Spurs can ill-afford it.

Opinion will probably be divided on his determination to substitute Kinsky after solely 17 minutes, between a coach saving the keeper from himself or a hard-nosed act that may kill a younger participant’s profession.

It was a surprising transfer, smacking of a coach who both feels he had nothing to lose or probably feels he has misplaced it already at Spurs.

He stated in a short post-match inquisition: “It was a very rare thing. I have never done this in 15 years of coaching. I did it to preserve the guy and to preserve the team.

“It was an unimaginable scenario.”

Of course, Tudor cannot be held responsible for what happened to Kinsky, but it was symptomatic of how things have got worse on his watch.

What is firmly at Tudor’s door was that it was his bold decision to drop Vicario and play Kinsky and to say it back-fired is a masterpiece of under-statement.

When Kinsky’s number went up, it was left to his Spurs’ team-mates and even Atletico Madrid’s fans, who pushed their passion and partisanship to one side to offer sympathetic applause, to console him.

Tudor didn’t seem to have comfort on his thoughts because the heartbroken teen got here off.