Jermaine Jenas has laid the blame firmly at the Tottenham defenders' door for their defeat to Liverpool.
Spurs were beaten 3-1 by the Reds at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday night, although that does not tell the whole story of the contest.
Son Heung-min had an early goal ruled out, while Mohamed Salah had one chalked off in the second half for a handball in the build-up.
All the of the talk in the build-up was about Liverpool's defensive problems and then, when the teams were announced, Jose Mourinho's formation and tactics, with five defenders deployed, Matt Doherty playing at left-back.
Mourinho was criticised in some quarters for his defensive set-up, but BT Sport pundit laid the blame solely at the defenders' feet.
Eric Dier and Hugo Lloris failed to deal with a simple Sadio Mane ball across goal for Roberto Firmino's opener, after Serge Aurier had let Mane get in behind him, while Doherty gave the ball away and then Lloris palmed a shot straight into Trent Alexander-Arnold's run for the second.
The third, from Mane came after Joe Rodon failed to deal with an Alexander-Arnold ball into the box.
Jenas said: "When you go into a game of this magnitude, with aspirations of wanting to be part of the title conversation against a Liverpool team that’s apparently struggling, but they just didn’t turn up. Three shockers, three absolute shockers in a game like that. You can’t afford that, you can’t really afford one and they had three big mistakes that have cost them today in the game.
" It’s just indecisive play, defensively, people not taking responsibility. You’ve been playing against Liverpool for years now. Mane has been doing the same thing for years and Salah does the same thing on the other side, so you know he wants to get in behind and you still get suckered into that."
Jenas was not the only one to lay into the defenders.
Rio Ferdinand added: " I think Jose will be absolutely livid with the way his side defended, individual errors, some experienced players as well - the goalkeeper, the captain. Aurier’s playing right-back, Rodon gets attracted to the man here, Milner, which allows the space. Aurier has to follow the run from Mane, he goes to sleep, I think that happens far too often with Aurier and then they’re punished."
