27-year-old admits his role at Spurs is ‘completely different’ to what he is used to 

Guglielmo Vicario has admitted that he has had to adapt to a completely different role than he was used to since arriving at Tottenham, given the responsibility he has to play out from the back.

While Vicario has shown time and again that he is up there with the best shot-stoppers in the game, that is not the only recent he was brought to Spurs.

Ange Postecoglou is certainly not a fan of his goalkeepers hoofing the ball long and expects his number one to pass out from the back, draw out their opposition and beat their press.

While most modern-day goalkeepers are expected to be decent with the ball at their feet, the demands at Tottenham are particularly high and Vicario admitted that he is enjoying his new role.

The Italian told ESPN: “We have to take some risks playing from the back because this is one of the situations we work on every day. We can have a lot of solutions in this.

“You play with a high line so you have to be ready with some sweeps outside the box. But I think this could be the new era, the new way of football. Of course, we practice every day and I really enjoy it.”

New style of football for Guglielmo Vicario

Vicario has had to quickly adapt, having come from a defensively-minded side in Empoli, who play with a low block, and the goalkeeper insisted that he is working hard in the training ground in order to develop a better understanding with the Spurs defenders.

The 27-year-old added: “It is a completely different style of football from what I had to do in my past. But I think it just becomes about hard work and trying to work as a team because the keeper I know is the only player that can catch the ball with his hands but you have to work a lot with the defence line, with the back four.”

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The challenge with playing this way for the defence as well as for the goalkeeper is to accept that they are going to occasionally make mistakes and that those mistakes will sometimes end up costing the side.

They still have to continue being brave and stick to the approach. It certainly helps to have a manager like Postecoglou, who is not one to point fingers when players do make the odd unforced error.

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