Jamie O’Hara was not a fan of Guglielmo Vicario successfully digging out all the Tottenham Hotspur workforce on Tuesday.
Talking after the north London outfit’s 0-0 draw away to Monaco within the Champions League on Wednesday, Vicario bemoaned his facet’s lack of ‘effort and operating’.
What did Vicario say about Tottenham’s efficiency?
“Typically you are wanted and at this time was positively the evening,” Vicario advised TNT Sports activities.
“[It was] not the very best efficiency from us, so lots to work on and study from, as a result of the extent within the Champions League may be very excessive.
“In the event you miss some fundamentals, it is onerous to compete with a superb workforce.”
Vicario added: “Tonight, it was concerning the effort and mentality, the attention of hazard that it’s worthwhile to have in some conditions.
“Tonight, we lacked a little bit little bit of that.”
Though Vicario’s feedback might have been issued with motivational intentions, former Spurs midfielder O’Hara and ex-Premier League participant Dean Saunders didn’t see it in that manner.
O’Hara and Saunders react to Vicario’s feedback
“So, he is dug out the gamers,” O’Hara stated on The Sports activities Bar.
Saunders added: “Effort and mentality? He is simply nailed his teammates. Has he forgot he is a goalkeeper?
“You know the way soccer works. Good gamers on the again, excellent gamers in midfield, artists on the entrance.
“And the lad with no coordination, stick him in objectives. That is what he’s. And he is having a go at his teammates?”
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Saunders’ comment drew loads of laughs from O’Hara, who replied: “I might flip round and say to him, ‘Oi, you, digging me out, the place have you ever been after we come for a cross?”
The duo additionally poked enjoyable at Vicario’s struggles when it got here to crosses as they labelled the Italian ‘chocolate wrists’ and ‘lettuce wrists’.
“Falling within the internet from a cross, each time it comes within the field,” O’Hara stated.
How did Vicario carry out towards Monaco?
Though O’Hara and Saunders have been blissful to tear into Vicario, the Spurs glovesman was the distinction between some extent and leaving empty-handed in Monaco.
Vicario earned man of the match honours as he made a formidable eight saves to maintain out the Ligue 1 outfit.
Per UEFA’s Technical Observer Group, which for this season’s Champions League contains the likes of Sir Gareth Southgate, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, David James and Rafael Benitez, Vicario’s ‘interventions have been essential in incomes his facet some extent.’
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Spurs boss Thomas Frank was equally effusive in his reward of Vicario’s show.
“I believe a number of the saves have been distinctive tonight, and it is a massive half why we obtained a hard-fought level, however on the finish of the day it may be a vital level,” Frank stated.
Spurs’ draw with Monaco left them fifteenth out of 36 groups within the league section on 5 factors, with one win and two attracts from their first three Champions League fixtures this time period.
As for Monaco, they lie in twenty seventh with two attracts and one defeat.
Vicario will look to keep up his efficiency degree when Tottenham return to Premier League motion on Sunday with a visit to Everton.