Igor Tudor: Pressure grows as Antonin Kinsky experiment backfires and raises further questions over Spurs head coach

A Champions League debut should be one of the landmark evenings in any young footballer’s career - the chance to show yourself on the biggest stage and hopefully make a name for yourself. Unfortunately, Antonin Kinsky’s name will go down in infamy.

The 22-year-old's 17-minute cameo has had every negative adjective that you can think of thrown its way, but it was simply horrendous.

Kinsky slipped twice early on, allowing Antoine Griezmann and Julian Alvarez to simply walk to goals into the net. After the second, all he could do was lie on the floor with his head in his hands.

While Kinsky is responsible for his own errors, much of the blame lies squarely on Igor Tudor.

He took a gamble on a young, inexperienced goalkeeper who had started only two Carabao Cup games this season. It backfired on him spectacularly.

Perhaps the interim head coach was looking to shake things up after some dismal performances since he joined the club. Kinsky may also have been pushing for a start behind closed doors, but to do so in such a high-profile game when Spurs needed confidence more than anything borders on reckless.

"Before the game it was the right choice. Where we are with pressure on Vicario, Toni is a very good goalkeeper. After this it is easy to say it was not the right decision," Tudor explained after the game.