Crystal Palace (H) - Sat 27th Aug 15:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[PALESTINIAN HEARTED MANC]

Relax guys, Jack, Laporte, Philips, Ake, all out. So it’s not a surprise our bench is light today.l!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Zaha being out is a huge bonus

 

[SWP's back]

we have injuries...

Spend 6 years having a go at Pep for never letting youth have a chance then we get 4 of them on the bench and everyone has a fanny wobble.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Pep doesn't even put our best eds /academy players on the bench. Gomes and Knight are both poor and haven't stood out at under 23 level

 

[FantasyIreland]

Evidence of how small our squad is, a couple of injuries which isn't out of the ordinary at all and our bench looks like a 3rd round carabao cup bench. Can't help but think it's going to seriously bite us in the arse this season.

Hopefully 24hr recalls on THB and Doyle.

And im in danger of being a broken record.....but selling Lavia was fucking mental.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Relax guys, Jack, Laporte, Philips, Ake, all out. So it’s not a surprise our bench is light today.l!

Like it never happens.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Is that confirmed mate,he’s been pretty decent the first few games for them so far,but it’s 11 players not one we have to play ..

Not in squad. Probably selling him. He only has one year left

 

[deano ou812]

Not in squad. Probably selling him. He only has one year left

Hmmm wonder who could be in for him Everton?

 

[Kamaro011]

And the flapper is out before the match even started yet ffs.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Spend 6 years having a go at Pep for never letting youth have a chance then we get 4 of them on the bench and everyone has a fanny wobble.

But they're the shit kids re Gomes and Knight

 

[Erling9]

Pep better have had a word with Foden on passing to Haaland

 

[SWP's back]

I know Pep likes a small squad and doesn't like the headache of leaving players out...

But that bench today is weak as piss. We're hardly into the season too. When the games come thick and fast there will be more injuries.

Pep and board taking an unnecessary risk.

Name me one side that has the quality on the bench of Gundogan, Alvarez, Palmer, Gomez whilst having Grealish, Ake, Phillips and Laporte out injured.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Two of those have cover and the DM will be covered by this time next week.

Nothing on our bench that covers those positions is good enough.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Happy with the lineup. Hope Phil has a strong game, he needs it.

 

[Shaffer92]

Pep better have had a word with Foden on passing to Haaland

So he can miss another sitter like he did from Grealish against Bournemouth? ;)

 

[deano ou812]

Pep better have had a word with Foden on passing to Haaland

Foden on for a hat trick of not passing to Haaland in a better position today ;-)

 

[eversince 76]

Zaha out will be good news for us. Otherwise, he would've caused headaches on the counter.

Not when we have Walker in the team. In fact Walker wasn’t in the team last year when Laporte was caught in Saha divery and got himself send off.

Anyways it’ll be a boring one way traffic game. Either we score first and have an easy game. Or concede with the first and only shot on goal by Palace, and find it really difficult.

They have been a bogey team at home. Let’s put an end to that please.

 

[wattle]

Nothing out of the ordinary. The number of injuries will be much worse than this at some point in the season. Probably a really crucial part too.

Phillips, Laporte, grealish, mbete, ake is quite a lot mate

 

[Cricket Blue]

If ever there was a game to highlight our small our squad is then this is it

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Think it will cost us this season as we seem to be incredibly injury prone and we’re struggling to put out a back 4 towards the end of last season And I have never seen our bench look so lacking in strength with some of our most promising youngsters on loan elsewhere

Yet the myth endures among non-City fans that we have about 5 world class players for every position.

We haven’t had a proper left back for a decade, lol.