Lionel Messi has already given his forthright view on Tottenham's backup goalkeeper plan

Lionel Messi has antecedently hailed Tottenham's backup goalkeeper Fraser Forster, with the seasoned stopper present acceptable for an extended tally successful the archetypal squad aft Guglielmo Vicario broke his ankle

Fraser Forster is acceptable for an extended tally successful extremity for Tottenham aft first-choice stopper Guglielmo Vicario suffered a superior injury and the 36-year-old has antecedently had the backing of Lionel Messi.

Vicario broke his ankle during Tottenham's stunning 4-0 triumph implicit Manchester City connected Saturday and is facing respective months connected the sidelines. Forster is acceptable to deputise for Vicario successful the meantime and manager Ange Postecoglou is assured helium is "ready to play".

Forster has made conscionable 24 appearances for Spurs since joining the nine connected a escaped transportation successful 2022, but helium antecedently starred astatine Celtic and Southampton. During his clip astatine Celtic, Forster faced Barcelona doubly successful the 2012 Champions League and memorably helped his broadside prime up a 2-1 triumph implicit the La Liga giants astatine Celtic Park.

Forster made 13 saves during the lucifer and Messi was aboriginal branded his heroics the "best goalkeeping show I person seen". Speaking astir the game, Messi said: "The performances of Fraser Forster against america were talked astir for a agelong time.

"There was 1 crippled successful Scotland wherever helium was not human, it is the champion goalkeeping show I person seen. When Victor Valdes said helium was leaving, we adjacent talked astir him playing here. I was definite that helium would extremity up astatine Arsenal, Chelsea oregon Manchester United. "

When asked astir Messi's comments past year, Forster told Spursplay: "It's intolerable to enactment into words. We'd played them away, I think, 2 weeks earlier and we mislaid 2-1 successful the past infinitesimal and I'd made saves, but the show we'd enactment successful distant from location truly carried america into the location 1 due to the fact that we knew we'd person the fans with us.

"But yeah, it was conscionable 1 of those nights wherever everything, you know. You marque a mates of saves aboriginal and you're like, travel on, bring it on. That squad arsenic well, if you don't bask playing those games, bash you cognize what I mean?

"But the sound that nighttime arsenic good – evidently we ended up going 2-0 up and they scored close astatine the extremity but it was just, benignant of, unbelievable. It was conscionable 1 of those days erstwhile you're successful the portion and everything goes your way. You're seeing the shot similar it's a gym shot and it's conscionable amazing.

"I deliberation that aft that nighttime I didn't slumber aft the game, it was conscionable amazing. I'm evidently fortunate to person played successful those types of games and similar I said before, fractional of my memories successful that crippled are the ambiance and the fans and tons of it is that alternatively than that prevention oregon this save. It was conscionable – the occasion.

"It's ever bully erstwhile it's idiosyncratic successful the crippled arsenic well, it carries a batch much weight. But similar I say, arsenic well, that play enactment maine successful the England squad and it was an astonishing clip that I'll retrieve forever."

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