Crystal Palace (A) | Post Match Thread

We are a hypocritical lot, myself included. If Raheem had missed those chances that Bernardo missed he would have been lambasted on here. Not the first time this season Bernardo has missed in the six yard box and usually Mahrez hits the target with his chances. Liverpool would not have played any better than us last night but they would have won the game by two goals at least.
 
A hard one to watch really, but gave off the distinct impression it was not going to be our night from very early on, total domination first 10 minutes, but didn't make it count.

In summary, Bernardo and Laporte both missed 2 (easy by City standards) , 2 woodworks, and Foden and Mahrez both missed good chances. Our defence looked vulnerable to the quick counter first half, but improved in the second. On another day, with the same chances (Sporting away ?) we could have scored 5 or 6.

Not a bad performance, just poor finishing and a shit result!
 
We should keep our sh*t together, we must not forget who is our coach. The most important month for us is April and I believe Pep/Lillo/Borrell are doing everything to prepare us for the most important period of the season. We're holding everything in our hands, don't expect dippers to win every game too. I don't complain pep haven't made any subs, but from the half time, I was cheering for a Raz coming in.
 
Agree we need to focus on the positives at this stage of the season. Stones playing superbly. Foden and Bernardo need bit of tweaking to get best out of them When Bernardo plays well city play well. Would like Phil bit deeper to use his passing range and be able to run with it and shoot not stuck with his back to goal.
 
Grassland Blue said:
Foden should not be playing false 9 and Gundo should have come on for Rodri who could have quite easily been sent off. He got frustrated and lost his temper.
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LangleyBlue1970 said:
The exact sub we said. And Foden to come off. He was useless.
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Was sat in top tier of their big stand last night with a mate who's a Palace fan. He was raving about Foden and the amount of really good intelligent runs he was making. The problem was our play was to slow and no one either saw or bothered looking for the pass.
 
First time checking site after last night. Noticed from the stands pep having a long chat with their goalkeeper. Was this caught on camera? Pep literally walked from the dug out straight to the Palace goal on the full time whistle. Can only assume he was having a go at him regarding the time wasting.
 
citytill1die84 said:
I can't remember mate but was early 1st half
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Interesting, worth a complaint as I heard the Palace fans very loud all game, I thought it was maybe due to where the mic was placed.
I wasn’t there so hard to complain about atmosphere but my mate said fans were very quiet last night. We’ll need to bring it for Burnley and intimidate the scouse scum at the Etihad, perhaps we should organise a bus welcoming
 
Coatigan said:
Does that mean we can't point out that our manager who moans about not having 5 substitutions doesnt make big ones in a game needing something?

Hate to admit it, but we do look just as likely to blow having it in our hands as we do actually controlling it. Since January, when we won the league, the longest winning run we have managed, is two games in a row. We are so aloof about it, keep saying liverpool will drop points too, but they are yet to do so, and the momentum is currently very much in their favour, and the pressure is building on us, not on them. Once they are a point behind, coming to our place, it will really test what the guys, and Pep, are made of. Could do with Arsenal getting something, just to take the sting out if it.
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you can't question Pep on here mate .
there are more sheep than an Australian sheep convention.
 
MadchesterCity said:
Interesting, worth a complaint as I heard the Palace fans very loud all game, I thought it was maybe due to where the mic was placed.
I wasn’t there so hard to complain about atmosphere but my mate said fans were very quiet last night. We’ll need to bring it for Burnley and intimidate the scouse scum at the Etihad, perhaps we should organise a bus welcoming
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Ye after they turned it down I never heard us again.

We have to raise the roof again the dippers and I trust we will hopefully clinical City turn up.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Nothing wrong with the intensity or mentality, looked to be one of those games as the chances came and went.

Said at the weekend it was a tough game and same will be said for Leeds, West Ham, Burnley and Wolves.

We are currently paying the price because of a shit first half at Southampton and a very late goal against Spurs, as we lost our margin for error.

It could yet be a very big point and still affords us the cushion of a draw at home to Liverpool, if we are to be perfect elsewhere.

My only gripe is the correlation between our dropped points this season coming against the same teams.

To lose 15 points to just Spurs, Palace and Southampton takes some swallowing.

I expect Liverpool to win at Arsenal but our team has been down this road before.
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What frustrates me most is that most of the points we drop are in games that we really should have won, based on performance in the matches. Based on squad quality, we should win every game but real life ain't like that. As we all know, what lets us down is finishing. Not just in terms of dropped points but simply not beating teams more easily. That also means we do not put as much fear in our opponents as would be the case if we had more genuine firepower.

Let's hope we can do enough to achieve some serious silverware this season and address the issue in the summer window.
 
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