Crystal Palace (H) - Post-Match Thread

Our attacking patterns are so predictable because we have no option centrally. I hate to say it but Arteta was integral to the way we played with our wingers.
 
bondsman said:
Provided Chelsea agree to drop them. They don’t look like dropping many. We looked like a team of pussies today. Got bullied all over the park. The lack of pace and a forward is killing us. That bench today had nothing to change the game. That’s also a worry.
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Chelsea will drop points
 
bondsman said:
As much of a twat as he is I’d have Zaha at City
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I posted this too in the match day thread. He has been at it for the past few seasons as well, a good player in an average team. His holding the ball, his workrate, his riling up players made our players lose their heads somwhat today.
 
Jag said:
Our attacking patterns are so predictable because we have no option centrally. I hate to say it but Arteta was integral to the way we played with our wingers.
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We never get behind teams , we used to do it for fun and it was wonderful to watch and for the opponents, almost impossible to defend.
 
Any particular reason why Bernardo and Jesus were so heated at Zaha. I know that in general he’s a diving cheat but the tackle by Bernardo a minute earlier was already a clear “fuck you” tackle
 
Poor performance. Laporte had a stinker, I thought Ederson could have done better for the opening goal though, which set the tone of the day. Very marginal that offside on Foden, none of them knew it was offside. With a little more luck Foden delays his run or the ball comes sooner(talking fractions here) and we take a point. Really wasn't City's day.

As a side note: I'm not blaming the result on the ref but take a look at Andre Marriner's face when he gave their keeper the yellow card, with 5 mins left of normal time:

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I don't know how anyone else interprets that but to me, that's a look of contempt. He was rightfully getting sarcastic cheers from the crowd, for allowing so much time wasting. It looked like he'd had a word from the sidelines, with 5 mins to go, to cover their backs and he didn't want to give it.

If they conceded what the keeper was doing there, was a yellow card offence, what's the fucking point in waiting until the 85th minute? Hows that a deterrent(the whole point of the booking system) and what about the other 60 minutes before then.

The culture of seeing time-wasting as part of the game needs to stop, it's a punishable offence and they were allowed to do it, starting in the first half. Taking the sting out of the game in brief moments, fair enough but it's obvious when a team is blatantly running down the clock with every single stoppage.

Then they get a smash and grab goal at the other end and we are supposed to forget how 90% of that second half played out. It's bad enough with 11men on the field, when a ref allows so much of that to go on. Even if we had been at the races, we'd have been lucky to get a point out of that game.
 
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Jag said:
Our attacking patterns are so predictable because we have no option centrally. I hate to say it but Arteta was integral to the way we played with our wingers.
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I agree we now look like everything goes out wide but then but that could be due to adding Grealish or could be down to how opposition set up but how can you know it’s down to Arteta
 
I simply do not see us creating enough decent chances, and I think we are crying out for a striker.
 
Everything that could go wrong went wrong. The opposition has always some chance, for bad mistakes happen.

Two bad mistakes by Laporte cost us. Also, we weren't patient at times and had too many rushed passes. We created several excellent openings, but the final ball wasn't good. Unlucky with the offside for Jesus' goal.

Kevin's silly decision to play injured for Belgium is costing us at the moment. He's not average now, he's poor. Given that Sterling is poor as well and that Foden missed the first games through injury, we'd have been miles off the top now without Grealish.

Many thanks to Brighton. The league is very strong this season. I think we'll try to sign a striker in January.
 
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Bluemoonie92 said:
Our attacking patterns are so predictable because we have no option centrally. I hate to say it but Arteta was integral to the way we played with our wingers.
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Oh ffs arteta had nothing to fucking do with it. Pep didn’t have arteta at Bayern and barca and he played the same way. What hurt is was when sane left and wr never replaced him with someone that has pace and can run at defenses. Sane and sterling were tearing the wings up and when sane left our attack/counter has slowed down a lot.
 
It’s only October but this is not last season and if we don’t buy a striker in January we will not mount a challenge for the title . The players seem to be struggling to raise there game as it’s difficult to keep getting up for the title every year . Kdb is miles of the level we need this season and I can’t see anything from him next month at least . Sterling is useless and shouldn’t even be coming on the pitch but we haven’t got this magical strength which everyone talks about if we get someone like the Serb from fiorentina we might do somthing but if we don’t then the title will go elsewhere this season .
 
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