Well, imho, about the match.
Oscar was poor, maybe coz he still lack match fitness? Coz iinm, the last 2 games against Stoke and S'ton. Oscar did not feature at all right? Iinm, Oscar juz recover from some infection thingy I think. Maybe lack of match sharpness.
Cahill, JT and Iva. Yea. Disappointing defending from them. Hope Mou will have a look at our defense line.
Matic? A bit too adventurous. But very un-Matic like performance by him. Usually when Matic step up from DM and go forward to win the ball, 70-80% of the time he can successfully intercept/nick the ball away. But yday, it was the other 30-20%. Most of the time when he tried to intercept of nick the ball away, he fails to do so. Maybe Matic has been playing too much of late?

Yes he is a DM, but if u watch most game, u'll notice Matic likes to step into the middle circle, sometimes over the half way line to try to win the ball high up in the field. But yday whenever he does dat, he fails to recover the ball. And Spurs capitalize Matic's off position to fast break.
Willian? Well, at least he played better than against Stoke.
Ramires? Too little time to judge.
I think Mou shud've started Mikel + Matic in the middle. Fab play more advance role. Fab at pivot yday was very bad in winning possession and intercepting, but his thru ball is top class as usual, juz his bad defending sometimes will be the downfall of our pivot. Mikel + Matic is more solid, and Fab can worry less about defending.
Just my 2 cent.

And last but not least, Cahill and Iva really really poor.
This post has been edited by briantwj: Jan 2 2015, 11:51 AM