Crystal Palace (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

Lee the Blue said:
Considering the team we fielded and how the game panned out it was a positive point. We are sadly rolling out players who are either average at best, or unfortunately past their best and it shows.

But for Ruben Dias yesterday holding it together at the back we'd have conceded at least 4. Savinho and Nunes belong in Everton's team, not ours. Neither will ever be good enough.

We showed some grit, saw out the game when we went down to 10 and the lads certainly grafted. The problem is the top level ability is missing. As for Ricos red card - the nonsensical first yellow he got for arguing over a foul by KDB is what dropped him in the shit. At least he's banned for the derby which isn't a bad thing tbh. Knowing our luck the ban will be rescinded.
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Considering we might be without Ake Akanji and Stones we would be better if Lewis was available..
Definitely glad that Ruben is back though
 
We always seem to struggle against Palace, so getting a result against them is always good.

We are making basic mistakes lately though and it's costing us.
Their first goal is one example, we give the ball away and suddenly we're under pressure, Walker plays them onside, Rico is no where near his man and a simple through ball costs us a goal.

The number one thing for a defender is do your job, you have to know where your man is at all time and when they attack, mark him.How hard is that, I was taught that in the infants!

We can thank Ruben for keeping it 1-0, as he was putting his body on the line as they were cutting through us at will.

Erling was unlucky when put through by Kev, the commentators saying it was a great save, fuck off, it hit him in the head, he got so lucky.

We then scored a simple but good goal, a great cross and a nice header from Erling.

I thought we were controlling the play after that but then they score a simple goal too. No-one marking their CH and he has a free header. How the fuck does that happen?!

I have a big problem with our marking at corners.
Not just yesterday but in every game.
When the opposition have a corner, i always thought the CH marks their CF and our CF marks their CH. Then again, we always used to put men on the posts too!

But anyway, yesterday their CH scores and last week VVD has a couple of free headers. On both occasions they were supposed to be marked by Walker and Erling doesn't even seem to be in the mix. I don't get that.

Why isn't Erling marking the CH? For his size Erling really needs to be more of a factor in both boxes at corners.

Anyway, we scored a nice equaliser, good finish by Rico and we hung on for a point.

We are still playing decent football in possession, but we're flogging Gundo, Bernie and Rico and as none of them are a defensive midfielders, i see the upcoming games playing out in the same way as this recent run until we get Kovacic and hopefully a new DM in January.

We have a big week coming up and i hope we can get the two wins we badly need.

COME ON CITY!!!!
 
The disappointment of yesterday is that it was a winnable game as it was happening.

A few games recently were not because we were so bad and the opponents were good enough to capitalise on it. There's no way we could have won, under the circumstances.

Watching yesterday was annoying because you could see the game was there to be won and we didn't seem to have the belief to get the job done.

Were psychologically fucked when we concede goals, we can't properly turn it around.
 
eversince 76 said:
Obviously i disagree. Our teamplay was definitely better imo.
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Wow! Was nothing eromg with the team play against Forest. The chances they got were from sloppy passes like there were plenty of yesterday. Difference was against Forest we also played some great football.
 
BuzLightyear said:
"Play like that the rags will beat us convincingly with the amount of pace they have in midfield and upfront" Not if we play Jack and Doku. Forest dealt well with the rags. We will also beat them - if we get team selection right.
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IF we get the team selection right and IF the players are available to get the team selection right......two huge issues
 
simon23 said:
IF we get the team selection right and IF the players are available to get the team selection right......two huge issues
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Problem currently is that aging, squad numbers and injuries means that games like Wednesday in Turin are killing us. We could probably do with going out of Europe early to help us preserve top 4.
 
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