I am going to base these ratings mostly on the second half performances because I thought nearly every player was pretty much excellent in the first half.
Lloris - 5. Really didn’t have much to do, that free kick was unstoppable to be fair and the other goal was down to our terrible defending, other than that I can’t remmber him making a save and if he did it wasn’t anything special.
KWP - 4 Looked ok at times, pretty decent going forward but like our other FB options lacks end product.
Defensively he might as well have not even been on the pitch, really just subpar and Poch shouldn’t be playing him until he is ready or has a run of games under his belt in cup competitions for us next season, or better yet, he should go out in loan to another PL club next season.
Sanchez - 3. Underwhelming borderline inept performance, didnt know when to press and when to retreat, lacked defensive discipline, just poor.
Vertonghen - 6. Better than most on the pitch but even he was guilty of lacklustre defending today.
Rose - 3 Poor going forward, utterly shocking defending for their goal allowing the ball to roll through his legs, piss poor and abject, nowhere near his best.
Dier - 5 Doesn’t look match fit which is understandable, has made us look more solid in midfield but looked like the game was passing him by in the second half, personally I think he makes a better CB than CDM.
Sissoko - 4 Only player in the second half that I really saw busting a gut to get around the pitch, still below par however and looked tired towards the end, knocked off a few points because of his fucking stupid headbutt and I am sick of seeing that bollocks in football, should have seen red for it imo.
Eriksen - 3 Game Of two halves, first half looked like he was almost back to Eriksen of old, second half he looked like he was completely disinterested, I think he is as good as gone from this club, heads not in it and neither is his heart anymore imo, he looks like he is trying to avoid injury.
Alli - 8 Our best player today, didn’t shy away, was putting in tackles, lovely assist for the goal, worked his arse off and looked every bit as world class as he is, shouldn’t have stayed on as long as he did though, he looked knackered second half and went missing understandably.
Lucas - 6 Started lively, pressing them all over, making runs and taking on his man, looked a real threat.
Then he just became anonymous and that right there is the issue with him, I think what you see is what you get, there is no improving him.
Kane - 7 Wasn’t impressed with him today, nowhere near his clinical best and spurned numerous chances to put us out of sight, even his goal looked like he took one too many touches, thankfully he is the best striker in the world so you know that once he fully clicks into gear again he will be rampant, sadly today wasn’t that day.
Got a 7 because he did bag us our only goal, otherwise he would have had a 6.
Son - 3 Forgot he even came on, I love Sonny, my favourite player next to Sir Harry but I don’t know what has happened to him since Kane has been back, I feel like Son thrives when he feels important and maybe that’s the problem, when Kane is back he feels less important and his overall game is affected because of it, hard to tell but his production definitely goes up when Kane is out of the team.
Davies/Llorente - NIL, didn’t offer anything or make any impact whatsoever, not really even enough time for them to do so.
Poch - 4 Great tactics in the first half, tactically poor second half after Southampton made changes, didn’t know how to react and then made some bad substitutions on top of that.
Apparently can’t motivate the players either, which I know is mainly the players fault but still, he is the manager, that’s his job.
Also, should have played our best 11 rather than resting players, especially when we have a 3 week gap until our next game.
Totally agree with the last point. We just won at Dortmund with a totally committed performance and Poch makes 5 changes, only 1 of which was enforced. Aurier and Toby not even on the bench. Why ??