Crystal Palace (A) - Sun 14th Dec, 14:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[ESP Blue]

Just put a few quid on Donnarumma to get a yellow card.
Hoping we are winning at 85 mins and he gets carded for timewasting, therefore he misses the Brentford game which he wont play in anyway.
Just don't make it too obvious !

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Just put a few quid on Donnarumma to get a yellow card.
Hoping we are winning at 85 mins and he gets carded for timewasting, therefore he misses the Brentford game which he wont play in anyway.
Just don't make it too obvious !

Palace is a league game so any suspension would carry to the next league game, not the cup game v Brentford.

 

[Backy]

Where's everyone drinking prematch in Selhurst?

 

[ESP Blue]

Palace is a league game so any suspension would carry to the next league game, not the cup game v Brentford.

You're right, I let it go anyway

 

[come-on-barney]

Rico Lewis is always good in this fixture, now KDB has moved on , who also used to have great Fun in South London!!! :0)

Down

 

[lasereyes]

Let's not rewrite history. They were all over us before the subs, and had already cut the lead to only two.

Follow your own advice. They scored 1 goal from a very clean strike but they were absolutely not all over us. Haaland was within a coat of varnish of making it 6-2

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

No Munoz, probably missing Sarr and potential for Mateta not to be 100% (stolen from Premier Injuries site)
So I've gone for a draw ;)

Palace haven't been the same without Sarr, for me.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

3-2 City Big Erl Hatrick

 

[JewelZee]

Pedantic twit that I am - so not the same 11 ;)
Joking aside - I don't like either of those changes going to Palace, trouble is in terms of freshening things I'm not sure what changes I'd make

Ya gotta like something or just flog the same 11 until it all goes tits up...

 

[citysince88]

If and its a big if. We can dig a win out at palace ill start thinking we can really win the league.

 

[TonyM]

I'd go...
...................Donna................
Nunes Dias Gvardiol O'Reilly
...............Nico Lewis.............
Cherki Foden Haaland Doku

Assuming Lewis has the discipline to stay in the middle to help Nico.

All going well, lots of subs from 60 mins on.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

Back to the future: live touchline interviews, celebrities, early goal, inswinging near post corners, late runs from midfield, stronger first half performance,fight to the end but there is a crunching tackle that wouldn't be allowed nowadays

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

Follow your own advice. They scored 1 goal from a very clean strike but they were absolutely not all over us. Haaland was within a coat of varnish of making it 6-2

Hmm.. Fotmob backs up what my memory of that game was versus what yours is.

Hopefully, Sunday will turn out better, no matter what.

 

[WhereWereWeWhenWeWereWhat]

Hmm.. Fotmob backs up what my memory of that game was versus what yours is.

Hopefully, Sunday will turn out better, no matter what.

You were objectively wrong in what you said. It wasn’t 5-3 when Gonzales and Doku were subbed off it was 5-2. And the two goals we did concede were great individual goals from Smith-Rowe and Iwobi. They got their third about 5 minutes after the substitutions after Bernardo made a poor attempt at a block which deflected kindly to Chukwueze who finished it well thats when they really started to threaten us. They scored again through another good finish from Chukwueze about 5 minutes after and we were finding outselves holding on for the remainder of the game.

Haaland could and should have scored two other goals one at 0-0 and one at 5-2 which would have almost certainly ended the game.

Did you even watch it?

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

3-2 City Big Erl Hatrick

I’m going for same Sunderland score for us

 

[Bri1975]

Just put a few quid on Donnarumma to get a yellow card.
Hoping we are winning at 85 mins and he gets carded for timewasting, therefore he misses the Brentford game which he wont play in anyway.
Just don't make it too obvious !

If he can avoid a yellow in the next 4 games then :

Premier League & EFL Yellow Card Suspension Rules:
First Threshold (5 Yellows): A one-match ban for accumulating five yellow cards in the first 19 Premier League or EFL (Championship, League One, League Two) matches.

Second Threshold (10 Yellows): If a player avoids the first threshold, they face a two-match ban for reaching 10 yellow cards by the 32nd game.

Third Threshold (15 Yellows): A three-match ban is issued for accumulating 15 yellow cards by the end of the 38-game season.

 

[Paul1970]

Very difficult game for us but after gifting them and we should be looking for revenge

 

[Doc_Testosterone]

Without Munoz should be easier but they are still good defensively.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I'd love us to for Guehi and Semenyo in Jan. If we somehow managed to sign those two I'd fancy us for the league

 

[Blue Bogey]

We are playing Palace when they are a bit light due to players missing due to injuries and good players too. We need to grasp that and making some changes shouldn’t harm us. Doku off the bench with 30 mins left would scare them or even Cherki if he doesn’t start.

Expect us to dominate the midfield.

We need to be solid at the back because if Mateta plays he can hurt us and so can Nketiah.