Jamie Carragher launched a scathing attack on Guglielmo Vicario after he failed to keep out Dominik Szoboszlai’s free-kick that gave Liverpool the lead against Tottenham.

The midfielder opened the scoring at Anfield when he let fly from distance with a free-kick that somehow found its way past Vicario in the Spursgoal. And although Carragher was quick to praise Szoboszlai, he also took aim at Vicario for the role he played in not keeping the free-kick out.

Not only content with taking aim at the Italian for what he described as "absolutely shocking" goalkeeping, he also told Spurs they have huge problems when it comes to their goalkeepers.

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He said: “We don't see enough direct free-kicks scored these days, but there's absolutely no doubtLiverpool have a free-kick specialist.

“I mean, he is a specialist, but I tell you what, Tottenham haven't got a goalkeeping specialist. It's not far off the middle of the goal. You've got to save that. Wow. That is awful, absolutely shocking from the goalkeeper. Tottenham have got huge problems in goal."

Vicario’s mistake comes at the end of a week in which Tottenham’s goalkeepers have made headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Italian was dropped for the midweek Champions League tie against Atletico Madrid, but he was brought on after just 17 minutes in place of Antonin Kinsky.

The Czech youngster taken off after two poor errors helped the La Liga giants to a 5-2 victory, and Igor Tudor was condemned for a failure to even acknowledge the 23-year-old as he left the pitch. Yet, ahead of today's trip to Liverpool, Spurs boss Tudor explained: “When you do that substitution after 15 minutes, the coach loses in both cases.

“First case, because you put him in, so everyone says, 'Why are you doing this? You killed the guy’. If you don’t, you are taking risk to concede one or two more goals.

“So, I took the decision after thinking and if I needed to, I would do the same again. It was an act of helping to preserve the guy and to preserve the team.

“Why didn’t I go to give him a hug? Because maybe he was angry. Maybe coaches do the things to avoid this scene and to get a situation worse than it was.

“Sometimes it is better to stay there and we hug each other at half-time. At half-time we speak and nothing (more), the situation happened there. It finished there.”

Asked if he did give a shell-shocked Kinsky a hug at half-time, Tudor insisted: “Of course.”