Crystal Palace (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Damien10]

We should give Nunez a shot in the Gundo role. Can’t do any worse.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

AKANJI?????? Can count on one hand the number of games he’s missed for us. Stones and Ake, yes. Akanji has missed like 5 games for us in 3(?) years.

Another knownowt proving it .

Not you Tricky.

 

[Scottyboi]

I might have to burn that 3rd kit, has took us back to 1998.

 

[Dawsenna]

Can I just say this... I'm not religious but I hope Antonio has some help from above. That car looks a hell of a mess.

Always liked him as a player, he's always talked warmly about City and comes across as a great bloke.

What’s that got to do with Crystal Palace result mate ?

 

[MCFCFanTX]

Walker - shit. Rob Jones - Scouse bitch.

 

[Brendan110_0]

Always a good result at their pad not losing. Onwards and upwards, stopped the away day losing streak.

 

[madloaf]

Not really sure why it's tiring, it's the reality of the situation.

United will dominate us in midfield, and will cause us all sorts of problems on the break given how often we give the ball away.

They also don't concede many goals, and given we don't really look like scoring them, I think they could be a problem for us next week.

I take it that you haven't watched united since 2008.

 

[minimalistic]

23 games left 13 points needed, reckon we will be ok.

Providing the trial goes to plan and we don’t get any points deducted.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Some of these refs need to be kneecapped.

Thought he was terrible from the 1st minute and decided not to see anything on the pitch apart from what would hurt us.

 

[simon23]

Whatever, I'll take the point. But that was fucking shocking in the end.

There are so many "first team" players giving us absolutely fuck all at the moment. Less than fuck all, to be honest. They're tired, over-played, and lacking the hunger you need to play for a Pep team.

Walker, Gundogan, Bernardo, and Gvardiol - all of them have been absolutely terrible in so many games recently. Giving the ball away constantly, making huge mistakes, and gifting it to the other team at all times.

Palace created nothing. We gifted them the first goal and then passed it straight to them for the second goal. That sort of shit is unacceptable but Pep seems to think it's fine despite it happening 10 times per game at the moment?

Meanwhile "squad players" like Ortega, Doku, Nunes, and Grealish are giving us so much more and carrying an actual bloody threat when they come on. It's time for Pep to really shake things up just before January imo.

Ortega
Akanji, Stones, Dias, Lewis
Kovacic, Grealish
Foden, De Bruyne, Doku
Haaland

Play that XI until the window opens. Let Gundogan and Walker save themselves from any more embarrassment, give Bernardo a proper rest, drop Gvardiol until he gets his fucking act together. Give the others a chance!

And if Kovacic isn't fit for the Manchester derby, what does Gundogan currently offer us that Wright or O'Reilly wouldn't give us? He gets caught dawdling at least twice per half. Pep needs to put a rocket up his arse.

while i dont disagree with you, Stones is never ever fit for more than a few games at a time....

And Lewis is a major weak point so he shouldnt be anywhere near the starting 11 ...so as poor as Gvardiol has been he is still a better option...rico lewis cannt defend and he is openly being targeted by opposition.....

Foden needs to play despite his poor form.......but Im not sure that is going to change as I thnk something else is going on there.....there were rumours before the start of the season that his persona life wasnt great and he had messed up shall we say

 

[micky_blue]

Obviously not a great result, some players need to take a look at their performance, that said, very strange team selection after the game on Wednesday, makes me wonder?

 

[Tevez City]

Considering all factors, I would sign now for a top4 position

 

[Ajm1985]

I don't know, I guess my frustration is I think we can still be better than we are with the players we have and Pep isn't working his wonders as well as usual. He's expecting performances from players who aren't giving any inclination they can match the standard and he's not mitigating the weaknesses. Throwing the same players into the same system and hoping for something different is baffling. There is no ball winner in that midfield and the controllers are frequently losing it in dangerous spots. We don't set up more defensively or make available changes when overrun. Just a bit frustrating

 

[colorado blue]

We’re playing with no defensive midfield, half a defense and players coming back from injury. I thought we battled well and deserved more today. Ref was awful. Only answer at moment is to give the kids a chance in defense. Walker is done and Gundo nest a long rest.

 

[wolviedinho]

Well done blues.

I'll post before the rags and dippers and city-fans-for-2 years start creating havoc with their wum posts and entitled posts.

Great point. Could come in handy come the end of the season. After not winning in 7 games it's just baby steps for a while. We're dead on our feet, half the team not fully fit yet we've picked ourselves up and won 1 and drawn 1.

Told you this season will be tough, we need to be patient and look at the bigger picture, something most on here forget to do.

Well done boys.

Far too many people accept mediocracy.

We all know the excuses now. It’s been talked about to death.

The club is responsible for giving the manager a group of player to win games. They have failed to do that.

We have a group of players who are too old or not good enough with the odd player like Dias and Haaland sitting in between them.

The players should have been replaced in the summer. Leave the sentimentality to the fans.

Watching great players look like shit is a sad sight. Rodders out but the decline from the rest is pathetic.

When do we stop making excuses?

Get on with it.

This season is a complete right off. That’s on the club.

 

[Ken92]

Win little second balls causing us big problems
Walker out
Bernado out
Gundo out
Nunez ?????
Lewis prob not but ????????
Sav young so patience needed

Lewis good goal but not sure he is a defender

he is never a defender, he is small ,slow and very weak.

 

[paulsimpson]

Pep has to do more this season. Not good enough from his (our) team again.

Even if our players weren't self destructing, our style of play is jaded.

Funny how a season can completely collapse. Pity that it's to us.

Look, when our defence is decimated with injury Pep cannot do any more. Defensive Midfield - kovacic and Rodri out .We also hear that Grealish has a niggle somewhere. And there are possibly more with niggles who are working through them. So it's difficult to put out a competitive team. Last season we didn't have these issues.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Rob Jones is a ****.

The Palace player should have been booked and a penalty check at least should have been called for. VAR not fit for purpose.

Anyway I think the lads did alright all things considered. The laughably small squad is on Pep.

I understand why he might want a small squad but it’s high risk - when you lose 6-7 players out or unfit it is disastrous. No five in a row this season but the last four have been wonderful.

 

[BolinCell]

There was going to be a drop off at some point , some absolute professional bellends on here , maybe we should win 6 in a row - even then some wouldn’t he happy on here, fuck knows what this place will be like when Pep leaves and an even bigger drop in form happens.

we used to win six in a row with our hands tied behind our backs.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Given the players available and the fact we went behind twice that was a well earned point