Crystal Palace (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Mr Partridge]

Why can't we play any of the youth lads like a wright or O'Reilly in the middle just to give us some legs we won't know if they are good enough if they don't play it's obviously not working with what we are doing now

Agree completely. We have won 1 of our last 9 games. I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but if putting in one extra youngster in the last 9 games would have resulted in a worse run than that then the whole youth system needs a big overhaul.

 

[Chak19]

You're giving examples of individuals covering up the fundamental structural problems of our side. Missing Ake's 1v1 defending ability shouldn't see the whole structure crumble. If it does then the foundations aren't sound.

It becomes structural if several players are missing as well and the replacements are nowhere near.

 

[It'sBlue93:20]

So disappointed feels like everything is against us at the moment.

I want 2 players in January.

We’d have won that if Doku and Grealish had started imo. Nunes and Savinho didn’t offer much.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Really???
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Ho the fuck can that possibly be a foul by Rico ?

 

[waspish]

Can’t control games anymore, haven’t got the players to go up and down, easy to score against and not creating enough with possession when on top.

We control games we can't control the transitions because we haven't got the players

 

[Gumzy97]

Injuries have shown up the club for trying to penny pinch now for years. Only pep was keeping it together with a phenomenal rodders.

Now it’s bare and for all to see.

World class? Not anymore.

We can blame the club all we want for the recruitment, but it was briefed time and time again , Pep is happy with the squad, doesn't need anyone else he has solutions. So you can blame the board but Pep also takes a little criticism for his stubbornness, he was offered Kyogo if we go by reports and turned it down.

Also he was happy going into the season without another midfielder, only that the Gundo opportunity popped up we signed him. If that Gundo opportunity hadn't come up we would've gone with what we had.

Also now we know from City journalist that Pep was more out than in , in the summer so he mightve thought of this as a last season with his squad

 

[MadchesterCity]

If Grealish and Doku weren't fit enough to start, his only other options were McAtee and Simpson-Pusey. No manager would put either player in that lineup today

He could've played Ederon or Carson, it's true though our squad is shit

 

[cookster]

Apart from awarding them a free kick for every every single slight touch, dishing out one of the most ludicrous red cards you'll see this season and then capping it off by blowing the final whistle when Doku is one on one with a defender who he would go past with ease.... yeah he was faultless

Victim mentality.
He blew on 4 mins, that was the added time.
We've had worse decisions go in our favour. Rico talked himself into the first yellow, unprofessional.

Blaming the ref is easy. The team were abject, Bernie just admitted in an interview that we're not good enough.

 

[bluemoon32]

Forest are far better than Palace, we beat them because we got a few players back and changed the midfield a bit with Grealish there, so of course we lose two defenders and Grealish feels unwell and it's back to the same shit again, these injuries need to stop somehow or we'll struggle to get top 4, unless we sign several players in January and that rarely happens, the injuries are killing us.

Of course injuries are killing us but so is the shit recruitment, injures will clear but we'll still be stuck with 2nd rate transfer buys

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Ho the fuck can that possibly be a foul by Rico ?

A ridiculous decision that’s being supported by some posters on here