Crystal Palace (H) Post Match Thread

[levets]

Well he's trying to make things look good . We should have gotten at least a draw and that keeps us within 3 points off top and psychologically in tune. Out managed today. Let's hope kevin and Aguero , possibly Fern play from the START mid week.

Actually we should have won, no matter how poor we played. Very unlucky in first half not to have a couple of goals. Unlucky with Leroy’s free kick; and deary me; Jesus should have scored that header. Don’t think he was out managed, the team selection was bizarre and completely unbalanced.

 

[Zenmanc]

With the drama some show here I'm surprised we aren't in the presence of acting royalty. Also wondering how many are still wetting their beds at night.

FFS it's a competition... ala diversion from real life/ real problems. If this is your sole focus... take a long look at your priorities. Some act like the title should be awarded to us day one and shit the bed anytime we aren't winning all games 4-0 and leading the league by 8+ points. Sit back... relax and enjoy the process... If it's too much stress there is a professional dart league to follow.

 

[OntarioBlue]

I read a lot of comments on her about the starting lineup being wrong. Sorry but I don’t buy it, you can’t say on the one hand that we have th best and deepest squad and then complain when the starting lineup is rotated. The starting eleven today should have been enough to beat a very average Palace team. It just didn’t happen. Stones and Walker were poor but mostly we failed to exploit our possession, loads of corners were wasted and we did not manage to take advantage of the space created by Palace doubling and tripling up on Sane and Sterling.

Shit day at the office for sure. I don’t think we can afford to lose any more games this season.

 

[idahoblues]

Well I can safely say after travelling all the way from Cornwall to watch, paying for a hotel, fuel, tickets food etc. All come to about £500-£600, what a complete waste of my money. I’m never critical of us when we lose. (Can’t won them all) but the pure laziness and it looked like we didn’t know what to do. The players should realise we are fans who care about this club more than any team. For me City comes before anything. I spend so much money coming to Manchester to watch when I can. Everyone who puts that sky blue dream shirt on needs to know not every fan just lives around the corner from the etihad, we spend our hard earned money to come and sit in the cold for 2 hours. And for the performance like that today, I think it’s unacceptable. Sorry for the long rant, guess I’m just annoyed I’ve spent all that money before Christmas!

Merry Christmas blues

wah

 

[kaz7]

It is on my phone on photos. Tried to oust but you need a url which obviously I don’t have... any help?

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Defence has gone to shit - most notably walker who’s been awful for the majority of the season now.

Failing to keep a clean sheet in 8 games is shocking. We’ve not particularly attacked very well since the derby but the defending is particularly worrying.

Injuries aren’t helping but intensity has to remain high over the Christmas period and for whatever reason ours has dropped. Shows how hard it is to retain a title.

Injuries have been everything

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

It was Marriner... not that he’s an improvement.

Yeah - Marriner. Dunno why I typed Pawson. Maybe it's because they're both equally shite.

 

[lazerblue]

The fernandinho problem should have been sorted out a year ago, you can't keep getting away with makeshift players in this league

 

[kippaxoldboy]

We desperately need to get Stones back next to LaPorte. We also need to get some replacement for Walker who once again was our biggest weak link.I felt more comfortable with young Garcia playing mid week than hoping Walker would be reliable!
Pep was saying our need to rotate over the Xmas period. Great but you still have to play your best team and replace players when they are unfit or NEED to rest. For Dogs sake this was the first game in the Xmas run in and we are resting our better players already!
We managed perfectly well without KDB but without him and David Silva we look to be lacking so badly.
Ultimately we have to blame the defence seeing as they can`t keep a clean sheet at the moment. Otamendi and Walker are both liabilities and need to be replaced or, at the very least, should not play together in the same team as it leaves to many gaps for others to plug.
I`m sure after calming down I will be embarrassed at this rant but one thing is true..... Walker is just NOT good enough and Otamendi just about viable as back up.

 

[bluemonkey71]

How come Gundogan didn’t play in Stones position and KdB didn’t start? Not yet fully fit?

 

[hgblue]

Yep its like Pep is managing the team on playing time with it being long season and playing around 60 games but you got to stick to the best partnership till there is an injury or suspension! Klopp will play vvd in every game unless injured we change the team an awful lot every game.

I think the centre back pairing is a vital part of any team and these two were really starting to gel. I wouldn't be messing about with that because it provides a steady base for the team. Hard to criticise Pep too much but I bet he reverts back after today.