Antonin Kinsky endured a Champions League debut to neglect as his two errors noticed Tottenham lose 5-2 within the first leg of their Champions League final 16 tie with Atletico Madrid.
Kinsky made two errors and conceded three objectives within the opening quarter-hour on the Metropolitano, earlier than being substituted for Guglielmo Vicario simply two minutes later.
However even with Vicario in between the sticks, Spurs have been unable to get well from the early injury, leaving them with a mountain to climb in subsequent week’s second leg on residence soil.
Igor Tudor’s facet discovered themselves behind within the sixth minute when an premature slip from Kinsky as he went to clear the ball noticed Julian Alvarez choose up possession, with the Argentine teeing up Marcos Llorente to strike into the bottom-left nook.
Antoine Griezmann’s 14th-minute end doubled Atletico’s benefit, and Kinsky’s depressing outing was accomplished lower than a minute later when he miskicked a easy cross meant for Kevin Danso straight to Alvarez, who walked the ball into the web.
Kinsky was then changed by Vicario, who was selecting the ball out of the web 5 minutes after approaching when Robin Le Normand noticed his header narrowly cross the road.
Spurs responded 4 minutes later via Pedro Porro’s well-taken effort, with returning captain Cristian Romero heading towards the publish from a nook simply earlier than the break.
However Alvarez was in a position to restore his facet’s four-goal benefit 10 minutes after the restart after being despatched via by Griezmann’s intelligent contact, taking his time to put previous Vicario simply moments after Jan Oblak had saved out Richarlison’s header.
Nevertheless, Spurs obtained the objective their second-half efficiency merited 14 minutes from time. This time Oblak’s wayward cross was intercepted by Porro, who arrange substitute Dominic Solanke to rifle the ball in on the close to publish and conclude the scoring in Madrid.
Massive win at residence pic.twitter.com/B5DM0UdIQg
— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish) March 10, 2026
Knowledge Debrief: Alvarez leads the best way for rampant Atletico
Atletico have progressed from two of their three earlier Champions League final 16 ties towards English golf equipment, and they are going to be assured of doing the identical once more right here after ruthlessly punishing Spurs’ error-strewn first-half show.
They netted 4 objectives within the first half of a Champions League match for the primary time of their historical past, changing into solely the second Spanish group to attain this in a knockout match, after rivals Barcelona.
They usually have been led by the spectacular Alvarez, who, since his debut within the Champions League in 2022, is one in all solely 5 gamers to document 30+ objective involvements after Kylian Mbappe (40), Vinicius Junior (39), Harry Kane (36) and Erling Haaland (35), with the Atletico quantity 19 now on 30.
For Spurs, in the meantime, they’ve now misplaced six consecutive matches in all competitions for the primary time of their historical past, although they may don’t have any complaints about their defeat right here, having registered an anticipated objectives (xG) whole of 1.41 from their 11 pictures to Atletico’s 3.12 from the identical variety of makes an attempt.