Watching us at the moment is really worrying. Any team that decides to press us high is likely to get a result against us and as more teams see this, more teams will play that way against us.
I think in a few of the recent games it has been clear that the opposition have had FAR more desire than we have. We were second to every single ball against both Chelsea and Southampton. I can always accept being outplayed but IMO nothing excuses a lack of effort and there are several players in our team who are coasting in some games at the moment.... Dele, Moura, Son, Kane and Eriksen are all clearly going through the motions at times, even Vertonghen now looks like he is playing like Alderweireld was before Mourinho came in. We cannot win games with so many players not giving their all for the team.
Just as worrying is that In all of the last four games we have played the opposition have looked better coached than us, they have a better shape than us when out of possession, defending as a team and staying compact, while also having defined ways of moving the ball forward. Our defence and even our defensive midfielders are getting a lot of stick at the moment, but IMO our difficulties often come from our attacking players not bothering to defend. It is really easy for opponents to create overloads on us out wide as the likes of Moura, Son and Dele don't bother to defend. So many times I see our opponents numbers give the ball and go and the aforementioned players simply not bothering to track the run, this then forces our central midfielders to have to come out wide to assist, leaving space inside.
Our attacking play is just as bad as our defensive play. It looks like we have no set patterns of play to move the ball forward. We're either playing long passes to feet to the likes of Moura and Dele who aren't capable of holding on to it so that we can get other players up in support or hit long high balls to Kane who isn't really built to win them. Towards the end of the game yesterday we were resorting to hoofing long balls up as though we were still playing with Llorente on, as opposed to it being Lucas Moura.
I know that Mourinho isn't a magician but it seems to me that after a little all too brief new manager bounce, our attacking and defensive shape has reverted to being just as bad as the period before he joined.