Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has slammed Tottenham following their 4-1 defeat to runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City on Saturday.
Goals from IlkayGundogan, Kevin de Bruyne and a double from Raheem Sterling secured City yet another convincing win as well as their 15th straight League win.
Spurs were guilty of some woeful defending on the day and Lampard was troubled by the manner of the first goal which was scored by City as Gundogan stopped to power home a free header.
Lampard described Spurs zonal marking as a “mess” and claimed that they made it easy for Gundogan.
“He’s strolled in and made it so easy for him,” Lampard said on BT Sport. “It’s good quality in from (Leroy) Sane, there’s pace and whip on it.
“Gundogan does well because he feigns that he’s not interested, he’s saying there ‘I’m playing with my sock, I’m not too bothered, I’ll sit out on the edge’.
“It makes nobody actually pick him up himself. Where Tottenham fail here is they have two people in the zone, Harry Winks is in the zone centrally.
“But when the ball comes into your zone you have to attack it. It’s a mess from Tottenham’s point of view, nobody is marking man-to-man, the zone-boys don’t attack in the zone. Gundogan strolls in, gets one of the easier headers he’s going to get.”
