Palace - Post match thread

Marvin said:
Looking at the european results, clearly a big win today for City.

With the CL cming up and after the international break, a lot of Europe's topsides have really struggled. Barcelona couldn't beat 9 men at home. (No Messi or Suarez). Bayern Munich lost.
Arsenal played badly, so did Liverpool and Spurs. I think the international break is very disruptive so a big win today
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Interesting that Barca have players 'missing' for their home game prior to an away Champions League game, having of course lost their last one to City.

Looks to me like it's suddenly got real to them as well, they could miss out on top spot, & even the great Barca have decided to risk taking a hit in the league, prior to a key CL game.

In spite of his protestations though, I think Pep is realising that playing like Barca or his bayern team in the Premier League, when you add in the international breaks & cup, CL games, is harder than doing it in Spain or Germany & he's giving the players a bit of leeway in the short term. Seeing the bigger picture. Hence Yaya.

I imagine this will result in a younger, fitter squad next season, in the effort to get closer to his desired level.
 
Considering the players have been all round the world we can just be be happy with the points,well done boys.
 
I know it has been said before but think we function better with Nolito in the team. Sterling is going to be some player.
 
Great performance in my opinion considering lads have travelled all over the globe and we lost our centre back early
Yaya was great and its exactly how he should have been used for the last 18 months play him in the games before UCL or bring him on with 20 to go when we need a goal or hold a lead like how paddy v and lampard were used
Sterling tore their left back a new one Fernandinho was incredible roll on wednesday night
 
I've not read the thread but can I assume the result rather than the performance is all that matters as we won, whereas we aren't allowed to moan about the result when we drop points against shite opponents at home?
The view isn't great at Palace, the opponents were total dog poo (they'd lost the previous four games) and yet we were hardly convincing. The ref was as bad as he usually is.
We were probably the better team and had Sergio scored just before they equalised it would have killed them off. But we can't kill teams off and we can't keep clean sheets (just 2 in 12 league games).
And Vince went off again. FFS.
And least we got Yaya back. I wonder if he'd have helped in the three games where we dropped points at home against mid-table opponent; or at Parkhead or Spuds?
 
How the fuck do we always manage to make Connor Wickham look world class!

Special mention to Sagna who had a good game at CB
 
East Level 2 said:
I've not read the thread but can I assume the result rather than the performance is all that matters as we won, whereas we aren't allowed to moan about the result when we drop points against shite opponents at home?
The view isn't great at Palace, the opponents were total dog poo (they'd lost the previous four games) and yet we were hardly convincing. The ref was as bad as he usually is.
We were probably the better team and had Sergio scored just before they equalised it would have killed them off. But we can't kill teams off and we can't keep clean sheets (just 2 in 12 league games).
And Vince went off again. FFS.
And least we got Yaya back. I wonder if he'd have helped in the three games where we dropped points at home against mid-table opponent; or at Parkhead or Spuds?
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Who played well yesterday? All the top sides had poor games. Barca drew at home against 9 men, and Bayern lost.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Interesting that Barca have players 'missing' for their home game prior to an away Champions League game, having of course lost their last one to City.

Looks to me like it's suddenly got real to them as well, they could miss out on top spot, & even the great Barca have decided to risk taking a hit in the league, prior to a key CL game.

In spite of his protestations though, I think Pep is realising that playing like Barca or his bayern team in the Premier League, when you add in the international breaks & cup, CL games, is harder than doing it in Spain or Germany & he's giving the players a bit of leeway in the short term. Seeing the bigger picture. Hence Yaya.

I imagine this will result in a younger, fitter squad next season, in the effort to get closer to his desired level.
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They rested Messi. CL game at Celtic clearly a bigger priority for them
 
Happy and relieved with the win, good to have yaya back, hope his agent now stays shut till the end of the season, a player who has achieved so much with the club deserves a send of on the happy note rather than leaving with sour taste in his mouth, fans and the club.
 
CrownPointBlue said:
It wasn't too clear on the wireless....fcuking useless this new fangled stuff.
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On my wireless Fred Eyre called Puncheon, and i quote, 'a coward' several times after his dig at Zab.

Hard to tell what the overall performance was like but Eyre and Cheeseman paint a pretty good picture and i thought we did ok based on their commentary.
Three away points and a battleing performance against a team that went all out to kick us off the park. Well done City.
 
Happy with the win but thought that was ONE of our worse pep style football performances this season.

We had more possession but didn't use it well, we didn't look like a unit or team, the game went through scrappy periods, overall players under performed . Fantastic how yaya scored but against a poor palace team the goal was our first shot on target. We allowed palace to get back in the game starting very poor in the second half, we deserved the win but didn't control the game.

Pep knows we should have come away with a three nil win with fifteen decent shots, not a two one last minute win.

You could take positives from the boro home draw because we controlled the game but failed to be focused til the end. The only positives from this game was three points and yaya.
 
trevorriley said:
Happy with the win but thought that was ONE of our worse pep style football performances this season.

We had more possession but didn't use it well, we didn't look like a unit or team, the game went through scrappy periods, overall players under performed . Fantastic how yaya scored but against a poor palace team the goal was our first shot on target. We allowed palace to get back in the game starting very poor in the second half, we deserved the win but didn't control the game.

Pep knows we should have come away with a three nil win with fifteen decent shots, not a two one last minute win.

You could take positives from the boro home draw because we controlled the game but failed to be focused til the end. The only positives from this game was three points and yaya.
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All well and good but give Palace some credit they didn't let us play
 
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