1st Goal:
I'd pin the blame for this on Carrick and Nani. Carrick if you pause it at the time the move starts. You have Carrick looking at the situation, he can see that Vertonhagen is about to get the ball and there's an acre of open space to run into. He should be running to close that space down, meanwhile Nani needs to track his man. Carricks too slow to react while Nani doesn't track his man fast enough. By the time it reaches our defense, the balls in the penalty area. Was an unlucky deflection for it to go in. But the problem came from midfield not defense. Rafael caught out of position again so Rio had to track Defoe to RB position which opened the space up.
As I said, Carrick could be blamed for not being a bit deeper, but he's in line with our midfield, so you could perhaps say all of our midfield should be a bit deeper. He certainly should read the situation quicker, but Nani switching off for a split-second is surely the main thing that costs us here.
2nd Goal:
Dembele runs past Scholes (who can't get near him). Dembele under no pressure passes the ball straight to Bale (I can't see who the player is next to Scholes, I think that's Kagawa? But he pretty much stops jogging at this point.) Also note Evras position top of frame, he's inline with Bale and Bale is running towards his area of the pitch. Evans tracks Defoes run while Rio follows Bale. Rafael is sprinting back into his RB position.
If you now pause it by the time Bale shoots, only Scholes is in the frame and he's outside of the box. Evra hasn't tracked Bale, Rafa is wrong side of Defoe, Evans is in a good position to mark Defoe and Rio isn't close enough to Bale.
The move started on the edge of Spurs box by Dembele. All Scholes had to do was track him but he let him go. Defense couldn't really have done much more, unless you want Rafael to track Bale and be pushed completely out of position. Evra should have got into the box quicker and Rio/Evans did all they could. Fullbacks and CM's at fault for that goal.
Don't have the time to evaluate the 3rd goal. But the problem is coming from our fullbacks not defending and our CM's not tracking back. Spurs also played us well and got their tactics spot on and took on the teams weakness'. Got to applaud AVB for that.
Rafael doesn't need to run into a Right Back position, because there is no one at right back to mark. There is however there left winger who is running past him and he's doing nothing about it. There is no point in Rafael running to RB when the man he's supposed to be marking isn't there, and when he can see the man who he is supposed to be marking making a run, you'd imagine it would be a good idea to track him.
But failing that, Evans positioning is truly shocking. Why is he 10 yards behind Rio? And why is he 5 yards behind Defoe? It doesn't make any sense. Our defensive unit should be in a line, and when Defoe moves across, Evans should pass him over to Rio, and then deal with the oncoming Bale. As soon as Evans is a) 10 yards back and b) starts moving to the right, Bale suddenly has a huge space to run into, and Rio is fecked.
As I said, you could say Scholes should do better against Dembele... but what from the Fulham game showed that Clev would do a better job? Ando might have, but Dembele is strong and quick and could probably outpace Ando as well. Also, Scholes gave him too much space, but didn't let him go, he runs back with him, he's just afford him too much space... but it's Bale who did the damage for the goal, and Rafael not tracking him and Evans gifting him a shed load of space is what cost us.
