Crystal Palace (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[willipp]

Just seen the highlights after seeing nothing yesterday. First take is how the fuck does Rico get sent off when he was the one fouled? Also why hasn’t VAR looked at it and given a penalty to
us?

Secondly Walker is a fucking liability. He sees right across the line on their first goal and does nothing to try and play him off even though he can see it clearly. Second goal he doesn’t even try and challenge for the ball, just totally lets him have a free head.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I still find it hard to understand why our players look absolutely shot compared to every other team in the league. Every player looks unfit and like they've played a game beforehand.

As for Palace, they deserved it and our "defence", Dias apart, was dreadful. They weren't helped by a midfield that offered no protection and no creativity either. Teams like Palace can cut through us with ease and when you wish Will Hughes was in your team, you know you're deep in the shit.

The Derby could be a car crash and with their pace I'm dreading it.

I genuinely don't know what the answer is but carrying on playing Walker, Lewis, Gundogan and Nunes isn't going to help us win games or plan for next season. If there's no one in our academy who can't look competent - and Pep clearly thinks not - then sell the lot.

This seasons a total write off in terms of the league and I think we have a HUGE problem. We have been found out and any team in the league is a match for us which is incredible. The club feels listless at the moment with seemingly no real plans. I hope I'm wrong but I'm getting the horrible feeling the charges outcome is known and it's a horrific outcome.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

He was brought in second time round to add and cameo appearances which would have been just fine. Now he is being asked to do Rodri and Kovavic cover.

Had it not being for Gundogan we don’t win the game v Villa two seasons ago and therefore the third back to back title!

He has been a great player overall especially in the treble seasons.

Spot on, Gungogan has been a magnificent servant and the goals v Villa and also THAT goal v United means he will always be a legend.

 

[Franny 1234]

Yes team selections have been the problem - not just the injuries. Today was the classic case. Walker, Gundo, Rico are always selected.Why? Grealish and Doku left on the bench despite their performances against Forest. Added to this ... why does Pep leave it so late to make substitutions? He does indeed need to have a word with himself.

Team selection!!!!!
Pep said in his press conference that both Jack & Doku were unable to play for 90 mins.
Players he couldn't pick
BOBB
RODRI
STONES
FODEN
AKE
AKANJI
KOVACIC
So to answer your question why are Gundo,Rico and Walker always starting who else could pep pick ?

 

[BlueMonkey79]

One of the reasons we look gassed is that every player is running harder for longer as we can't deal with other teams anymore.

Usually in previous seasons we are in total control of the game and we have that extra gear towards the end of games. That gear has gone now.

Players running around chasing shadows most of the time as it's not their natural game.

We were fed a crumb of getting back into this title race after the scousers drew midweek. And another handful of crumbs to close the gap yesterday when their game succumbed to the weather. We totally and abjectively blew it!!! Typical City style.

This season now is all about top 4.

If we fail to secure top 4 then the owners need to shepherd a large proportion of the blame as well.

Our dire performances in the last few transfer windows is coming home to roost.

Gvardiol and Haaland aside our buys have been underwhelming at best. Panic buying the likes of Nunes and bringing back pensioners has cost us 1, possibly 2 years of dining out at the top table.

 

[City64!]

You don’t need to know more than Pep to know we are presently fucked.

What’s that got to do with the post I quoted?

 

[Whether or not]

I still find it hard to understand why our players look absolutely shot compared to every other team in the league. Every player looks unfit and like they've played a game beforehand.

As for Palace, they deserved it and our "defence", Dias apart, was dreadful. They weren't helped by a midfield that offered no protection and no creativity either. Teams like Palace can cut through us with ease and when you wish Will Hughes was in your team, you know you're deep in the shit.

The Derby could be a car crash and with their pace I'm dreading it.

I genuinely don't know what the answer is but carrying on playing Walker, Lewis, Gundogan and Nunes isn't going to help us win games or plan for next season. If there's no one in our academy who can't look competent - and Pep clearly thinks not - then sell the lot.

This seasons a total write off in terms of the league and I think we have a HUGE problem. We have been found out and any team in the league is a match for us which is incredible. The club feels listless at the moment with seemingly no real plans. I hope I'm wrong but I'm getting the horrible feeling the charges outcome is known and it's a horrific outcome.

I understand the sentiment of your last paragraph, but the general feeling of a downer isn’t charge related in my view. It is a losing run, huge injury problems, ageing players and poor recruitment. It is a rhetorical question, but if we were ripping up trees and 10 points clear, would that be interpreted as knowing we had won the 115 case. It wouldn’t be, so surely it can’t be seen as a negative indicator either just because we are struggling.

 

[Roachy]

Anyone holding their head goes off for 10mins for a concussion assessment, they do it in the nfl, if they want to bring a concussion sub on for that 10 mins so be it, but I reckon most would be up on their feet straight away, that twat last night deserved an Oscar and quite rightly the ref left him there, that albino twat needs a retrospective yellow as well for his faking it.

This is the solution, would stop it in it's tracks.

 

[Gordyola]

I still find it hard to understand why our players look absolutely shot compared to every other team in the league. Every player looks unfit and like they've played a game beforehand.

Our squad has played more games than any other in the past 7 years and significantly more than most due to being in more competitions and going further. Just this season at the point we played Bournmouth and Brighton we had payed 5 more games than they had, now its 6, also virtually every player of our's are top internationals and are used by their countries a lot.
This season as a result of injures some players are having to play every game even if not fully fit or fatigued to aid that they are training less.

 

[heslops barnet]

Which is a bit sad really when you consider those major achievements. He will end up mainly associated with what is becoming a train wreck of a season rather then for the glorious moments he brought us previously.

Already said there’s no room for sentimentality….Komps, Silva, Yaya we new when it was time to move them on