Whirly you have quite obviously got an agenda against Lovren. You have come into this thread with an "I'm right and the rest of you can fuck off with your opinions" attitude.
We restricted Spurs to one shot on target but our centre back (playing only his third match for us, moving to the right side to accommodate his second central partner) was shit and we were lucky not to concede 3. Fucking hell!
Most of Spurs attacks towards the end of the match came on out right side if I remember correctly.
Lovren whiffed on 2 or 3 opportunities when he was one on one on the wing with an attacker and allowed him to go by no issue. For me, those are fatal errors.
Lovren conceded what could've been a pen after the Allen pen was given. He also left his position a few times to charge out and attack balls he should've had nothing to do with. He also did a Cruyff turn in our box while being closely pressed by a defender.
These aren't really incidents I'm pulling out of thin air either, they all individually happened. Adding them all up, it was a worrying display at the least.
The fact that all of this was completely overlooked by a large number of people who responded here, who claimed Lovren had a fantastic game MOTM game, means that people are giving him way too much slack for being the prototypical player for us on paper.
For the record, I though Sakho was
okay. He seemed to be the more reliable player in the second half especially, but had a mediocre first half. But overall, he and Moreno did well to shut off a lot of the attack on the left, something Manquillo/Lovren failed to do on the right, especially on the break.