Well, being in a position of having seen more than the 5 minutes of the MOTD highlights, I can say we played pretty well Saturday, albeit against limited opposition, and we really should have won by 2 or 3 goals. Improved performances from most, although the defense wasn’t put under much pressure. Particularly happy to see Matic put in a good performance, but the same can be said of Fabregas and Hazard.
Costa took his goal very well, but other than that, I though he had a poor game. At least twice balls were put across the face of the goal in the six yard box, whilst he was loitering somewhere on the edge of the box. Also there were signs the crowd are beginning to become disenchanted with his performances. Normally they sing his name even when he gets caught offside, but there were plenty of groans at when he wasn’t where he should have been and again when he went down too easily for the (legitimate) penalty shout. Hopefully, the goal will help with his confidence, and he will start putting himself in goal-scoring positions once more.
The acid test of whether we are improving will come away at Sp*rs next week, who look on fire at the moment. Let’s not pre-judge that either way at this stage.