Finally, with his save percentage sinking to the lowest in the Premier League among starters, Guglielmo Vicario earned a benching from Tottenham Hotspur in their huge Champions League Round of 16 matchup against Atletico Madrid.
The result was that Vicario ended up back on the pitch before 20 minutes, as Igor Tudor swiftly scapegoated Kinsky just as quickly as he threw him to the wolves for his first start in months - against one of the top teams in European football at a time when Spurs cannot buy a win, no less.
Tudor is obviously, to anyone with critical thinking skills, the biggest loser in all this for the way he has carried himself, doing his best to kill the young and promising career of Kinsky. And the biggest winner, on the surface, appears to be Vicario, whose replacement embarrassed himself on an international scale.
What is Guglielmo Vicario's excuse for his struggles?
The thing is, most Tottenham fans aren't really fooled by Vicario here. Vicario only comes out looking better to the people who go, "See? This is why Kinsky never started," without understanding the context of Kinsky struggling as a young keeper lacking confidence in a big game when he was so rusty because Vic was hoarding all the minutes.
Vicario is still the root of the issue. Tottenham had to turn to Kinsky and throw him under the fire because Vicario was so bad, Spurs thought they could not possibly look worse at keeper even if Kinsky were to be overmatched and rusty.
And the weird thing is, they were right to feel that way. Even if you say that Spurs came closer to winning and that Vicario made fewer mistakes than Kinsky, you can't really assert that Tottenham played any better with Vic in goal - or that Vicario played well.
Vicario is saving barely more than 60 percent of the shots he faces. Despite making the same mistakes Kinsky has made all season and a higher volume of them, he has shown no improvement. If anything, he has regressed as the season has gone on. He also throws other players under the bus, whereas Kinsky looks genuinely gutted and accountable for his errors.
So Vicario, to the average fan, may have improved his stock simply by Kinsky lowering his with terrible mistakes in quick succession. But whereas Kinsky's mistakes can be chalked up to nerves and inexperience in a flukily short period given the context, Vicario's are over a wide spread of time from a veteran player who cannot default to a lack of sharpness as a reason. True Tottenham fans are not fooled by this Kinsky nightmare: Vicario is still not the answer.