Crystal Palace PL (H) Post match thread

Corky said:
Sorry, I'm not being offensive as I realise you speak in broken English, but we can't force players to stay.

We have been here many times before, and Khaldoon has said stars can stay as long as they want, but it is all for show. City want rid.
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Still a bit of a prick I see....

City need to change that attitude, why should we be dictated to? No one knew if gunny was staying or leaving up until the final weeks, we were still trying to get another year out of him.

Who talks to the players?

Had we known, we could have sourced out a similar type of player, instead of having to make do.

Its just sensible, but thats not you....
 
Our poor finishing is the problem. We create many many chances every game but fail to convert the majority. The opposition are still in the game and invariably score from what few chances they get. We must have the worst attempts to goals conversion rate in the league?
 
FLManc said:
How many fuckin times does it have to be said????
Gundogan's missus did NOT like living in Manchester.
SHE wanted to move to Spain
HE wanted to make his wife happy.
THEY decided to move to Spain.
Why the fuck do people go on about 'letting Gundogan go'??
He fucking wanted to go!!!
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this is true and is one of the reasons but I don't think he was given the same t&c's barcelona offered. they should have convinced him to stay.
 
Petetheblu said:
Said it before and I'll say it again, if you take KDB, Gunny and Mahrez out of any team, then they'll be a drop.

Hopefully we have learnt a lesson and won't let player dictate whether they stay or go at the end of the season. Lets get a replacement player in the season before, so they can adopt to what we need.

God knows how many million we earned last season, seems weve fallen into this the "lets spend less" scenario.
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Players dictate whether they stay or leave when they're out of contract, like Gundo was
 
Bill Walker said:
Just watched it on City plus , fucking gobsmacked. Was that really a penalty ? We now can't beat a Palace side at our ground with half their team missing. Poor Ali nearly had a fucking hart attack.

Can't believe how Kyle stopped running for their 1st goal, pathetic. Is he becoming lazy ?
Alverez is playing like shit. We could've done with Kovacic instead of him.

It's all been said of course in this thread. We got fucking raped today. :((
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as clear a penalty as you are ever likely to see
 
There is no issue in terms of quality of our players. This is mentality and composure. I can forgive the Chelsea result, sometimes you get mad games like that. But to concede late on against liverpool which led to 4pts dropped in the final 10, we shouldn't have been conceding late against Spurs. We should have been composed, keeping the ball and keeping our shape.

We were safely in possession and then give it away, they attack and we turn into a shambles. Rico wins it back and then, rather than seeing the game out we lose the ball again and then panic and give away a penalty.

Usually we see games out comfortably. The players have no idea how to see things out. Someone needs to start leading this team.
 
The sheer panic & lack of composure in seeing games out or when we lose the ball is fucking weird, is it because the players arent buying into our set up or tactics and just dont trust it ?
We used to be able to take the sting out of games at will, now we cant even see a game out when leading a shit Palace side by two goals.
Anyone thinking this will all be sorted just by having KDB back is mental, we are like the keystone cops late in games nowadays
 
Eccles Blue said:
How can anyone boo off our team? Please can someone explain that to me?
Treble winners, 3 PL titles in 5 years. More trophies in the past few years than we saw in 30 odd years. Did they cheat today, did they deliberately injure an opposition player? Did they do something I didn’t hear about?
Thank you
Puzzled and Bewildered from the Principality of Eccles.
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Are you more concerned with those fans who stayed to the end yesterday and boo'ed the team off or the thousands that leave early on 80 minutes at every home game? I know who I side with.
 
bellsouth said:
What is it with the late goals?!? Is it concentration, poor game management, fear, leadership…..
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The main characteristic of City under Guardiola is our control & workrate. For the first time in over a year, I saw a team (Luton) up the tempo, workrate & physicality against us & we matched & surpassed them.

Since Haaland & Alvarez came into our team, we seem happier to cede control, sit back & hit teams on the break with a long ball over the top, or a through ball which plays to Erling's strengths.

Because we're happy to cede a certain amount of possession to play longer balls over the top to bypass a midfield press, we end up playing football closer to our area, which statistically presents a bigger danger to our goal.

In the 2021-2022 season, if we lost possession, typically it'd be in the opposition half, so they'd still have a lot of work to do to pressure our defence.

Now because we tend to drop deeper, a mistake means the opposition are on top of our defence, in our defensive third & within striking distance of Ederson.

Remember all those typical City goals we'd score with a player getting to the byline in the area & cutting the ball back for either an attempt on goal, or a pass leading to an attempt?

Previously, because we lacked an Erling or a Julian, we'd have to play higher up the pitch, strangle the shit out of teams, & literally have to walk a goal into the net through a packed defence. We rarely seem to score those anymore because of the way we've adapted to play to Haaland's strengths, which means we play deeper & with less intensity.

We really need to return to basics & rediscover ourselves. Another issue is our bench. Kova is no Gundog. Nunes nor Philips are nowhere near the elite midfield level we're used to.

After winning the Treble, we've further diluted the quality gene pool of our once world class midfield. On paper we've the strongest defence I can recall us ever having, which suggests it's other things & not the quality of defenders why we're shipping late equalisers, & conceding so many goals per game.
 
Bluewonder said:
He's been stinking this year.

If he hasn't lost it, he's in a prolonged spell of very poor form.
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Ok, that maybe a bit more realistic and I won't necessarily disagree. There's definitely a wider malaise in the team and dare I say it with Pep, with everyone sub standard. The way we nonchalantly went through the motions after the Palace 1st goal was ridiculous. Dreadful result overall that yesterday.
 
Shirley said:
So we have a fan base who leave early and boo off the team, not a good look is it.
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First time I've heard any boos for the team yesterday for a long time. I understand why some chose to vent their feelings that way. But the familiar rush in large numbers for the exits with 15 minutes of time to play is something that has been a City trait for years and years and will never disappear.
 
stan bowles said:
First time I've heard any boos for the team yesterday for a long time.
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Well, look, to be fair, we haven't exactly had much to boo about, have we? It's dead easy not to boo the team when they're winning everything in sight. That's easy. Personally, I'd never boo the team when things aren't going quite our way. And I was fuming like everyone at full time.
It's the behaviour of a spoilt, mardarse baby.
 
Why can't Pep ever play a settled back four, it changes every week. I feel for Gvardiol, a centre half by trade asked to play at left back because for the umpteenth season running we don't have one. It's making Josko look a bang average player and it's not his fault. Just try him at centre half one day Pep you might just be pleasantly surprised
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Well, look, to be fair, we haven't exactly had much to boo about, have we? It's dead easy not to boo the team when they're winning everything in sight. That's easy. Personally, I'd never boo the team when things aren't going quite our way. And I was fuming like everyone at full time.
It's the behaviour of a spoilt, mardarse baby.
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But still preferable to the players playing a superb game and demolishing the opposition only to be greeted by a half empty stadium at the final whistle.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Why can't Pep ever play a settled back four, it changes every week. I feel for Gvardiol, a centre half by trade asked to play at left back because for the umpteenth season running we don't have one. It's making Josko look a bang average player and it's not his fault. Just try him at centre half one day Pep you might just be pleasantly surprised
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My concern has been his ack of pace, that wont change because he goes to centre back
 
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