It sucks that we lost the winning streak to tottenham of all the teams especially since if we had won we would have taken arsenals record of most wins in a single season for this reason i wouldn't have minded if we sat back and just counter attacked them because they had to win and a draw for us  wouldn't have been a bad result just imagine this team if they had played for this game : Courtois

                                                                                                                                                            Ivanovic   JT    Cahill     Zouma

                                                                                                                                                         Kante            Luiz            Matic

                                                                                                                                                       Willian            Costa           Hazard

what do you guys think could this team have performed better than the one that started

This is one defeat we just have to take on the chin and move on from. All that matters is being top come may. It's all good and well saying this player shouldve started but hey I can imagine had we started with Willian and Cesc and still lost, we would be posting on here saying that Matic and Pedro should've started.

Defensive lapses and a poor performance in attack cost us at least a point. Hazard had the goal gaping and he fired wide with a tame shot. If he scores that, it's a different ball game. KTBFFH

8 hours ago, Nibs said:

 

Actually not that bad compared to some of his team mates. But he has set himself very high standards and should certainly have done better with the 2 chances.

He has indeed. I really did expect a big performance from him due to the fact that he took it a little easy vs Stoke.

Costa was also guilty with that shot in the first half. Just a very bad day at the office.

I think Paul Merson has a good point about our wingbacks. They get tired and especially in the xmas fixtures. Premiere League is more demanding than Seria A and we could for sure strengthen this position.

On 06/01/2017 at 03:52, TheChelseaBlues said:

Lost in translation I guess. I would say tweaking the squad would mean changing it by addition or subtraction since the squad refers to 25 players rather than the 11 who start

 

There IS an entire thread in the rumors section called 'what do we need to tweak this squad' so you can see where my confusion comes from

I mean my original comment was "

Conte is right they score right in injury time of the first then the second when we were on top, right after hazard missed that sitter, fine margins, but we need to strengthen when the Spuds are all over us like that, I'd get Zouma in as RCB and move dave out to RWB, I loved the story but I think Moses peaked a while back, he is a hard worker but limited" I mentioned tweaking in the context of the players on the pitch but makes no difference we have detracted a lot that's what's I would do with what we have and I'd have no issue with tweaking the. starting 11 or the squad , I think we are too thin a squad  in terms of quality replacements  I also think besides Dave and luiz out back 5 is mid table quality , who full credit,  have worked hard and done excellent in this run but I believe the formation and the form is flattering them, if we want to be an elite club we need to strengthen, which of those 3 would start at a big club? Maybe Garry being a decent English defender with experience but not Moses or alonso and to be fair Zouma is better than Garry  if we don't bring in a ball playing CB like VVD I would at least have zouma on the pitch, he is big strong and fast with a. Brilliant tackle , either way we made a team selection that stick because it was working so well not necessarily because we don't have better options we can field 

-----------------------zouma---------luiz---------GC-------------------------

dave--------------------matic-----------------Kante------------------alonso

 

For me that's a better  option defensively for a big game....

Interesting video of the defensive mistakes leading to the first Tottenham goal 

https://mobile.twitter.com/joaonunofonseca/status/817064263063900161/video/1