After two games, villa and everton, mata has not convinced me that he can play in mou counter attacking system. I really like mata as a player but he is far more suited to possession based team rather than us.
If you are talking about his chance when Howard made crazy mistake. It was kinda more of Schurlle fault, the pass was too weak so it gave Barry chance to recover.
I see, maybe that is one of the reason he move CR to the middle (I personally think CR7 is more a liability than ozil defensively) This season, I am interested to see how CR7 perform in the middle. I am not really sure he likes it but will see.
I kinda agree that he is not good at defending and his stamina is a question mark. But for me he is the perfect complement to Ronaldo. Quite surprised that RM sell him. Offensively he is actually a very selfless player and he likes to move to the left to create space for Ronaldo to cut inside.
Actually RM use ozil the right way, he is perfect with ronaldo. If I am not wrong, he had the most assist and created the most chances in europe last year. (or is it 2 years ago)