Jamie Carragher is fuming with one Tottenham Hotspur player after he failed to accept responsibility against Nottingham Forest.
Guglielmo Vicario managed to keep two consecutive clean sheets as Tottenham Hotspur defeated both Brentford and Slavia Prague.
However, the goalkeeper conceded three goals against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, and he was one of the players at fault on two separate occasions.
Vicario played a risky pass to Archie Gray, which led to the hosts’ opening goal, and his positioning was nowhere near good enough for the second.
Jamie Carragher slams Guglielmo Vicario after Tottenham display
Jamie Carragher appeared on the Sky Sports Extra Time Show, and he had some harsh words for Vicario due to the role he played in Nottingham Forest’s first goal.
However, the former Liverpool defender is not just frustrated by Vicario’s mistake, but due to his decision to instantly blame Gray.
Carragher said: “It’s not just a keeper playing out. It’s a keeper on his weak foot. Typical Vicario, he is always blaming someone else.
“Every time I see a goal go in, he throws his arms at someone else. He seems to do it a lot, and he did it again today. We can talk about young Archie Gray in midfield, but I’m putting this on the goalkeeper.
“Archie Gray could do a lot better, of course, he could, but what the lad does initially is he is trying to help someone who doesn’t actually need help.
“The goalkeeper doesn’t actually need any help because the ball should go out wide to his player. I don’t know what the problem is. There is no real pressure on it.
“But what Vicario does instead of passing with his right foot to Van de Ven on his left foot, he then takes the ball on his left foot and tries to play a little dinky pass here.
“The point I am trying to make about being on your weak foot as a goalkeeper is, there is a reason you’re in goal for one – you are probably not going to be amazing with your feet – but on your weak foot, you are trying to be intricate and trying to pass it to a certain player’s foot.”
Carragher continued to acknowledge that Gray could have done better in the situation. However, he believes Vicario was mostly responsible for the goal.
“Archie Gray can play with both feet, but he is predominantly right-footed – [and] he plays it to his left foot,” Carragher continued.
“Could his [Gray’s] control be slightly better? Of course it could, but for me that is on the goalkeeper. It’s a horrible ball to deal with. Credit for the pressing, you think of Sean Dyche, you think of Nottingham Forest getting after the opposition players, and they do really well.
“But talking about the left foot pass. It’s not a great pass, it’s bobbled in because it’s on his weak foot, so that bobbling bouncing pass into Gray, on his weak foot as well – yes, control should be a little bit tighter – but even if his control was right, Sangare would still be on top of him.
“I’m laying all the blame on the goalkeeper, I am.”
Vicario has to take responsibility for his actions on the pitch
Carragher is not wrong when he claims that Vicario is always looking to blame someone else whenever he makes a mistake.
Even when the 29-year-old made that dreadful error against Fulham, he raised his arms in the air and looked to be shouting at one of his teammates. He did take responsibility for his moment of madness after the match, but he should have been apologising as soon as the away team’s goal hit the back of the net.
It is bad enough that Vicario keeps making errors, but having a poor attitude when these mistakes occur makes the situation so much worse.
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