Match Thread | Crystal Palace vs. Man City FA Cup Final (17/05/25)

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Should be refunds after that. Luckily i stuck 50 quid on palace before the game so that's my ticket paid for.
Was like the whole team were running through treacle. Kept on trying the same play over and over and over expecting it to work. Awful
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I don't think so, but we won stuff with players at their very peak. Another twelve months in the legs and yer can see the effect. We've chased too many games this season. And of the games this season the only one I think we dominated from start to finish was the Salford game.
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Our game is slow and ponderous.
I know we badly miss Rodri and hopefully he comes back as good as ever, but too many of our players at the moment can’t play the quick one touch football with sufficient accuracy. Too heavy in the first touch. Always wanting a second touch in the box.
Passes regularly behind players slowing down routine forward play.

Little things, but the current squad are lacking.

Pep insists on playing the same game however. The whole world knows how to counter it now, because as I say, the squad can’t play it the way it works.
 
Liverpool fan on VAR ignored the rules of the game in order to help get the desired result in a cup final. It's absolutely scandalous. I think Pep will be a bit more magnanimous but Gillet and Atwell should never be on our games again. Atwell the same referee who gave United's goal that one time after a blatant offside.
 
Missed a pen and had the bizarre Henderson decision against us but other than that, a bit insipid.
 
Haaland first 2 games back - no team goals in 180 minutes.
He makes us more predictable, one more dimensional and adds very little to our build up play. I don't care about his personal stats, our team goals numbers have not improved since he joined.
 
Time for a new voice and fresh ideas, we are so stale at the moment, but with management and players and fans can see this, and 99% of the time club fans are right.
 
blueballs84 said:
Games aren't played hypothetically.
We DID lose and never really looked like winning.
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True, our expected goals was 2.3. They should have got a red card, we had nearly 80% possession, I don’t agree with your last point. One goal was all that was needed for extra time.
 
Bluemoonadam said:
Lol I'm not even convinced wed of done them even if they had 10 men, rabbit on about it if you like as much as you want nothings changing now. We were shite.
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Yes we were shit, but it doesn't stop me from still being pissed off about that decision. Absolute joke and it'll be swept under the carpet like all the shit decisions against us.

If that'd been against liverpool it'd be on loop on TV for months. Just a game changing terrible decision the likes of which VAR should be correcting, NOT making up shit to justify it.

VAR leaves a kid in intensive care days ago and now that. Yeah, let's just smile and say "Well done Palace"

And I know it changes nowt. :):
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
Our game is slow and ponderous.
I know we badly miss Rodri and hopefully he comes back as good as ever, but too many of our players at the moment can’t play the quick one touch football with sufficient accuracy. Too heavy in the first touch. Always wanting a second touch in the box.
Passes regularly behind players slowing down routine forward play.

Little things, but the current squad are lacking.

Pep insists on playing the same game however. The whole world knows how to counter it now, because as I say, the squad can’t play it the way it works.
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I watched a YouTube of the City v CFC game yesterday - the one where we were 4-0 up after twenty odd mins. The passing was chalk compared to the cheese we're getting now. Every player was on it, passes parallel to the touchline, passes that split the CFC midfield. We haven't played like that for some time.
 
the-ecstacy-of-eight said:
Yes we were shit, but it doesn't stop me from still being pissed off about that decision. Absolute joke and it'll be swept under the carpet like all the shit decisions against us.

If that'd been against liverpool it'd be on loop on TV for months. Just a game changing terrible decision the likes of which VAR should be correcting, NOT making up shit to justify it.

VAR leaves a kid in intensive care days ago and now that. Yeah, let's just smile and say "Well done Palace"

And I know it changes nowt. :):
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Way happier we lost to a team like palace, people forget how rare it is in today’s game for fans to see their team win. Credit to them and I hope they party early into the morning.
 
Malcontent said:
We looked like the only team trying to win. Palace sat back like Forest did in the league recently.
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And Soton! Hope Bournemouth don't employ the same tactic. The FAWSL is basically the very essence of what we've seen today - we go for it, get caught and then teams sit back. Outside the top four in the women's league the rest are basically athletes with a bit of talent and touch but there are teams that when they come to the Joie can spend the first half just chasing, whilst we give Keating practice at receiving back passes. It's the same with the men - the constant passing in the oppo half, if teams keep their shape and discipline will keep us out.
 
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