Vicario apologises to Spurs fans after north London derby defeat | OneFootball

Guglielmo Vicario apologised to the Spurs fans after their 4-1 defeat in the north London derby at the Emirates.

One goal from Leandro Trossard and three from Eberechi Eze gave Arsenal all three points against Vicario’s Tottenham despite Richarlison scoring from 35 yards out at 3-0 down.

The Spurs goalkeeper apologised to the fans after his side’s poor performance.

“I think it is extremely painful. I won’t talk away from that,” he said in an interview with Sky Sports. “It was a bad performance. It was completely the opposite of what the intention was when we came here. We can only apologise to the fans for the performance.

“When the team went long, we didn’t win enough duels. That is exemplified by the 2-0 goal and the 3-0 goal, where a player went through two or three players. It was a bad performance and we lost.

“I have seen a lot of character and fight in this team but we didn’t win enough duels. We can call that whatever we want but we didn’t win enough.

“The goals I want to see more in detail. The whole game I need to watch tonight an it will be a difficult watch. We were not aggressive and stepped forward when we could and they played it round us.”

Tottenham did not have a single shot until Richarlison scored in the second half. Vicario addressed Spurs’ lack of creativity.

“That has been an ongoing theme that we are working hard to improve. It doesn’t look good today or against Chelsea. We need to keep working on it.

“There were a lot of things in this game we need to do better,” he said. “We are four months into it and they are further in their journey as a team and that was very obvious today.

“Of course there will be noise. We played against our biggest rivals and we lost badly but we keep noise out and we focus. I know this tam is very competitive.

“I know this team is competitive and we showed that against Man City and PSG. Of course it looks bad today and it was not good enough.”