Crystal Palace PL (H) Post match thread

[bellsouth]

Not gonna improve our inability to keep a clean sheet or our brilliant ability in giving away late goals! …. We might already be 5 up though so can see your point!

To be fair, Haaland loves a bit of keep ball in the corner to wind down the clock. Something we could have done with today!

 

[Beanhead]

I hope youre right but i just dont see it in this current team. We have no players who take responsibilty and step up when it gets hard, like Gundo has in the past

6 weeks ago no one could see our resent results. We could quite feasibly win our next 6 and be top again. We are the only team in the league that anyone with any sense wouldn’t bet against. In fact we could win 12 on the bounce. One good performance and we could easily start to dominate. Just be thankful that we are having this period now. Plenty of time to fix it. I am not worried. I think by the end of January we will be much closer to the top points wise.

 

[LongsightM13]

You won't see worse at this level. Mind you, the bloke on the right was close. Walker is finished, I think.

Walker can’t do 90 intense minutes anymore, it seems
Same as Spurs, breathing out of his arse for the last 20 and his side wide open
That said, have to lay the blame for today firmly with Baldy and Lillo

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

You know, it's not the losses I'm critical of. Villa are playing well, and they were well worth their three points. Furthermore, they'll bother more than one this season. Wolves was just one of those weirdo losses that we get every season. There's always one, and I'll give the lads leeway on that. Arsenal was a scuzzy defeat from a jammy deflected goal, which we absolutely did not deserve.
No, it's these draws from leading positions, and very late on. That's something quite new, and you actually have to go back to Pellegrini's last season to see that phenomenon happening this regularly.
It is doing my head in.
Obviously the season's not over, unless something very funny is happening with the calendar. But today has dented my confidence that we will be champions come May more than any other match. The weird thing is that it actually seems to do us good to go behind (as with Luton, as with Leipzig). Even the other night, against Red Star, we're absolutely cruising for nearly all the game, and suddenly it becomes Keystone Cops time.
Suppose I'll see it differently tomorrow. Better sign off from here, for my sanity.

 

[Silvatoure21]

The problem as I see it is that yes, they are not amazing, but we look nothing like a team that can win 18 in a row again. Maybe KDB and Haaland coming back will change that, but at the moment, I can't see us doing it because of us, not because of our opponents. At the moment, I can see the winning team getting something like 82 points and us still not managing to beat them.

Maybe I'm making the cardinal sin of writing off City, but it just feels different to me this time.

I hear you but I know from time after time that you can never write City off. But yes we are not playing anywhere near title winning football, but we are by no means out of it. We are still a world class team with everything to play for.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Absolutely no faith in this team protecting a lead and seeing games out now. Consistently finding ways to drop points every week. Bottlejobs.

Every week in my super 6 I always put us down as conceding , never a clean sheet. Had it as a 3-1 win today. No confidence in us defending a lead

 

[Father Paul]

Gvardiol and Guardiola were two hideous twins today, in control of the game for 70mins and Pep makes no subs, the line-up was bad enough but players were cleary fatigued Stones should've come on at 2-0 not 2-2!

Gvardiol defensively was shocking today, he creates chaos in our back line, 1-on-1 he might be worse than Laporte he certainly cannot play at LB needs benching.

I agree.

 

[jimharri]

When did we last keep a clean sheet?
On current form we will not be winning any trophies this season.
Pep needs to sort out the defence pretty quickly. As soon as we lose the ball in midfield and the opposing team counter we concede and always late in the match. Gvardiol is not a left back.

What; in all competitions, or just the PL?

 

[TFC]

Left the house 2-0 up, got to where we're going, 2-2. Ffs City

 

[citymad]

Is is too ridiculous to think that we are we now seeing Pep finally running out of ideas on how to change a game ? It doesn’t seem like the players have that composure anymore.