It was more of a wink at the audience rather than anything explicitly said towards Mata. Drogba was a call in guest, and he joked that Malouda was Gattuso (direct quote). In the sense that he was played out of his favoured position. When Malouda was questioned about Mata towards the end, he brushed it off by mentioning Zhirkov & J. Cole, and how there has always been competition.