Tottenham: Guglielmo Vicario explains how he had to protect Lucas Bergvall from 'bad' fan

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·3 November 2025

Tottenham: Guglielmo Vicario explains how he had to protect Lucas Bergvall from 'bad' fan

Footage of incident at full-time went viral and goalkeeper has asked for more support from stands

Guglielmo Vicario explained he felt the need to "protect" Lucas Bergvall from an abusive fan after Tottenham's defeat to Chelsea.

Bergvall started the match but was forced off in the opening minutes with a concussion after a ball was hit into the side of his head from close range.

The 19-year-old pleaded with the medical staff to let him continue and tried to push the club doctor aside on the touchline, but the decision was made for him to come off. Bergvall will miss Spurs' next two matches.

He came back on the pitch after the game to applaud the fans and appeared to react to something that was shouted at him from the stands.

Vicario quickly ushered Bergvall away and then glared in that direction, gesturing at some of the supporters as he slowly made his way back to the tunnel.

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"In every environment there are very good people and some bad people," Vicario explained.

"Probably [he] got contact with one bad person. That doesn’t necessarily say that everyone are bad people. But there are some bad people in every environment and I had to protect him because he was a little bit emotional in that time.

"It’s part of my experience to do that. And we can discuss inside the dressing-room and not do it outside. So that’s it."

Vicario was speaking at the pre-match conference ahead of Spurs' Champions League match against Copenhagen on Tuesday night.

It is the second of three home matches in a week as the team look to rediscover some confidence ahead of Manchester United's visit this weekend.

Vicario has been Spurs' best performer in recent weeks and was superb against Chelsea too, but he also attracted the ire of some fans during the match when taking a stoppage-time free-kick short and then launching it straight to Robert Sanchez.

If we have a little bit more help from some situations coming from the stands it could be of course better

Guglielmo Vicario

The Italian joked that playing in his home country had prepared him for any scrutiny from the stands, even if he did suggest Spurs need more support when struggling in matches.

"I think probably in some moments during the game … probably when we are chasing, we need to be a little more cool heads and if we have a little bit more help from some situations coming from the stands it could be of course better," Vicario said.

"But we cannot control it. At the end, of course, everyone was disappointed."

He added: "About the situation in the stadium, I think it's normal. I was a fan when I was a kid and was going to the stadium and I saw many of these things.

"Probably in Italy it's also a little bit worse when you go, so I have big shoulders about that, so it's not a big problem.

"You know, it's like when you go to the theatre and you see a show and you don't like it and you express what are your reactions, what are your feelings, so it's just about that."