Crystal Palace (H) | Post Match Thread

[BlueAnorak]

Haaland absolutely amazing. Bernardo my MOTM. Gundogan and Alvarez both great.

But surely these last two games are proof enough for Pep to abandon Walker at CM. Stupid decision that made us too narrow against Newcastle and too narrow again today. As soon as Walker went wide again in the second half we ran like clockwork and went through the gears with ease. Hope he never bothers with it again.

Thought we missed Grealish in the first half - we always miss his ability to organise the rest of the lads by being patient - but by the end we were completely on top. That strange system Pep went for with Foden at LWB really seemed to do the trick. Fair play to Pep for changing it.

You have a point though I think Stones is as much to blame.

 

[coolcity]

I agree with this, both Sterling and Jesus were fantastic players for us, but both had their limitations. Haaland seems like he is a level or two above as a goal scorer (the other two did a lot of things Haaland probably doesn’t as much, to be fair).

I thought it was telling that on the day Haaland got a hatttrick, Sterling needed a deflection to score his goal.

My only slight reservation is that KDB seemed to be just punting long balls into the box rather than the more accurate passing style he usually has. Obviously that was the instruction, but it's not going to work every time. Result was we gave a lot of balls away in the first half.

 

[eyalluvitt]

To see us finally have a forward who can bully agricultural Centre halves is a joy to behold

 

[big gaz]

Anyone else starting to get the feeling that when we go 2 down, we have the opponent just where we want them? :)

Maybe fella, but its no f88king good for the old jam tart, had one of those attacks and didn't like it ;-)
Not a bad team are we.

 

[coolcity]

He may have a point. But then that other fat idiot tried to convince a few school children that Pep wouldn't make it in the Premier league. Do people pay for this twaddle.

So he isn't saying Haaland won't score goals, but what he is saying is Haaland won't live up to expectations. Seems odd, because the expectations are that he'll score goals - so what exactly is he saying?

To be fair, I got bored with it after 3 minutes.

 

[Big-P]

Alvarez must start instead of Mahrez, the boy is special.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Thought Ederson lost control of the ball, no foul there, should have been 0-3.

Not sure about that. Pretty sure the Palace player knocked him as he was hogging forward with the ball. Will see in the highlights I guess.

 

[big gaz]

Commentator said without a doubt stones scuffed his shot , anyone else think if we played in red it would have been a fantastic team goal ? It looked like a pass to me

Eccles, was it a scuffed shot or a David Silva slide rule pass to Odin ?
She will provide the definitive answer !

 

[BlumerMooner]

Wow. City back to giving me a heart attack and raised blood pressure.

Some resilience to play poorly and give a two goal lead against twice in a row and not lose either… sign off champions

 

[remember arthur mann]

Alvarez must start instead of Mahrez, the boy is special.

Very industrious not like couldn't arsed Riyad.

 

[Sir peace frog]

@Eccles Blue was it a scuffed shot or a David Silva slide rule pass to Odin ?
She will provide the definitive answer !

edited ,for the definitive answer :)

 

[eyalluvitt]

Alvarez must start instead of Mahrez, the boy is special.

I Thought Mahrez was our one shining light in the first half

 

[blue by birth]

First half we didn't really look great but their second goal shouldn't have been allowed as it was a foul on Cancello so we should have had a free kick instead of them getting a corner.
I said to lad sat next to me that if we could get an early goal second half it would give us a boost and put Palace under pressure.
I know Haaland had to get the motm because of his hat trick but Bernie was amazing.
Palace are a hard time to play against and even harder to watch..time wasting constantly..their keeper is a joke..the amount of time he takes with goalkicks is ridiculous...fucking ref kept pointing at him but did nothing..their players feign injury when they are under pressure to break up City's rhythm..
Thought we looked so much better with the subs on.. Fantastic finish for his hat trick by Alfie's lad.
Anybody doubting the bottle of our players needs to fuck off
Roll on Weds night...

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Abject first half. Mahrez ineffectual, the left side non-existent.

I was wanting Gomez to come on at the start of the second half as we had no left footed threat out wide at all.

Pep changed it by moving Foden to left back to force him to stay wide.

KDB had one of those games too.

Bernardo pulled us back into the game on his own to start with.

Then Haaland took over. His third goal was the pick. I think there’ll be loads of those to come. Ball played in front of him, he holds off the defender with ease and bangs it home.

Special shout out to Stones’ superb “pass” assist. Did the defence with his eyes. ;-)

 

[coolcity]

What a game! Deflated and depressed at half time. Elated and erect at full time!! Only City can do this too me!
Shit goals too concede which happens, but the lads don't really panic (unlike us watching). We're so fucking good.
Bernie was excellent and halaand's 3rd goal was superb. I never for one second thought he was gonna miss it! He's a machine! And will hopefully get even better with time.
Well done lads for that2ndhalf performance. Sublime.

They don't do it to me, I'm not deflated and depressed because I'm always confident we'll turn it around. I think we've done it before once or twice...

 

[lancs blue]

I Thought Mahrez was our one shining light in the first half

That's probably an indication of how bad the rest were in the first half.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Eccles, was it a scuffed shot or a David Silva slide rule pass to Odin ?
She will provide the definitive answer !

Come on guys, John Boy never scuffs his shots, his boots are always immaculate, plus he'd hurt his toe and we can't have that!!! It was a David slide rule pass of course. :-)

 

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[asgoodasitgets]

Very industrious not like couldn't arsed Riyad.

Why ? Just fuckin* why ?
You feel a need to have a go at Mahrez , who , let# face it, did no more or less than the equally culpable 10 other players who didn’t perform .
Im gobsmacked by the amount of self entitled ‘fans’ we are stuck with.