Match Thread | Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City (14/12/25)

[argyle]

Badly need a fit Rodri back.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

The invisible man is a perfect description of him. Passenger

He offers nothing.

 

[Gorbachev]

No Doku, no party.

He is so significant in how we attack, opening up the space, putting opposition on the back foot.

We cannot rely on Nico G for an entire season.

We need a 6 and a winger.

 

[Bluearmy]

Like the start in Madrid this. We are lucky to be nil nil

 

[Zenmanc]

Nico O in midfield, RAN at LB Bernie out

 

[Ryan.98.]

Glen Murray is an absolute ****.

 

[Blue-Ghana]

lack of midfield control is painful from a Pep side.

That is despite not playing any natural wingers

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Darren England has to be the worst ref out there. And it’s a really fucking low bar

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

Turgid walking football … lucky to still be in this. Really missing Doku’s energy.

 

[East Level 2]

33 mins and 75% possession yet Reijnders has made 1 pass.... He's genuinely no better than Kalvin Phillips

He scored against the mighty Wolves. What more do you want?

 

[paulchapo]

Lol. That's pretty pathetic mate.

Not really we are a hard watch in games like this. When I'm at the game I have no choice, sat on the settee i do.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

How is Tijani doing?

Looks like he's saving himself for Christmas Eve ;)
Edit: someone had to do it

 

[Gordyola]

Foul on Cherki no FK
Tackle on Wharton FK

 

[Bluemoonie92]

We don't even look arsed

 

[Lemon7277]

We will get the sucker punch between the 85th and 90th min

 

[city warrior]

The fact that you don't realise what Bernardo does, even if he is past his best, says more about you than him.

I mean you say he makes us tick, meaning he touches a lot of balls and is in the correct position. Rodri touches 40% more balls on average, and every other thing I mentioned in my post, he is elite at. If you think Bernardo is good, then I guess Rodri must be 100 times better, because he is better at what Bernardo does best, and then he is excellent at 30 other things too.

 

[chesterbells]

Wish that sun would go down a bit too - we clearly lost the toss here.

 

[normskih]

Wharton is very weak in the tackle. He just shit out of tackling Cherki.

We’d do our nut at him for that if he played for us.

Let’s be honest, besides defenders and Silva, we don’t have many who like putting their foot in.

 

[mattyads]

Let palace have the ball, and counter. We just don’t suit this level of possession with this squad.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

33 mins and 75% possession yet Reijnders has made 1 pass.... He's genuinely no better than Kalvin Phillips

Foden playing LW and Cherki doing touchline shifts to accommodate this guy while Marmoush rots on the bench