Crystal Palace (H) Post Match Thread

[Thomas Hearns]

Went straight from the match to the fight and haven’t read a word of this thread or seen any reaction but no doubt the flappers are panicking. Calm the fvck down.

We didn’t play great and we haven’t done for weeks but most days we win that game. 2 great strikes, the second a goal of the season type effort go in and all of a sudden we’re chasing a game where we’re low on energy and missing key players. Palace were really solid and ran tirelessly - credit to them. The third sort of killed us off but we kept coming although it always looked like one of those days.

Kev played really well and if he stays fit we win the league with something to spare. Bernard ran his socks off and Gundo kept us ticking but we had no real penetration.

Jesus isn’t good enough and needs replacing. Mahrez needs more time I guess, he shows bits of quality but never seems to impose himself on a game. Seems like £60m doesn’t buy you a winger who can beat a man these days which is a problem as fullbacks quickly suss that he’s always gonna check back and cross it from 20 yds out rather than get to the byline as do the centre halfs who ready themselves to head it away easily, untroubled by our tiny strike force

Ref was a fvcking disgrace. Let their keeper take the piss timewasting all game then makes the pitifully token gesture to book him in injury time and adds insult to injury by strolling 40 yds towards him to show him the card thus wasting another fvcking minute.

 

[NorwayCity]

The team worked well until the rags game. Since then:
- No support from fullback wingers (lost Mendy for injury and so Kyle Walker)
- Disturbed the harmony between Stones and Laporte by introducing Otamendi who's been shaky since his game against Spain
- Fernandinho
- What happened to B.Silva we know ?
- We need a real striker, and Aguero always drops in pace and injured in christmas period.

So as said Pep, we're not recruiting players in January... Good luck for us without a fresh midfieldand defending wingers.

 

[dhruvblue]

The team worked well until the rags game. Since then:
- No support from fullback wingers (lost Mendy for injury and so Kyle Walker)
- Disturbed the harmony between Stones and Laporte by introducing Otamendi who's been shaky since his game against Spain
- Fernandinho
- What happened to B.Silva we know ?
- We need a real striker, and Aguero always drops in pace and injured in christmas period.

So as said Pep, we're not recruiting players in January... Good luck for us without a fresh midfieldand defending wingers.

No team signs new players bcoz existing
ones are tired or out of form, it doesn't happen that way.

 

[City Raider]

Its flakey at the moment. 8 games without a clean sheet says that. We need to tighten up and start taking the chances we get although today I agree, we didn't look like scoring at 3-1 down until the last 10 mins. If you concede 3 goals in any match, 9/10 you lose.



That sub was baffling. Sterling whilst not being at his best was at least starting to run at people and Mahrez has shown nothing this season to say he was going to change things.

We were a bit out of shape at 3-1 down with the subs and tactical changes. Not Peps finest day but even then he couldn’t legislate for Walker having a complete shocker

Some of those subs seem pre-planned. KDB was always going to get that amount of minutes etc.

 

[Mancity1980]

Why would you start a prem game with two of the best players in the world sat on the bench?
Just need to beat the dippers on the 3rd.

Because they weren’t fit???

 

[Mancity1980]

I think a lot of posters called it before the season started, no cover for Fernandinho would eventually bite us on the ar@e. I can understand pep thinking if he doesn’t get his target (Jorginho) then he will not settle for second choice. We had won the league by 19 points and he can switch players (could Delph not do that job?). I still think we will the league (i’m not sure we will I just think we will!) but it will be very frustrating if we failed to retain it yet again.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

What we lacked yesterday, apart for the injured players or ones trying to get match fitness, is the type of player Pep was after and didnt get.

That being said, Kyle Walker was poor. Gundogan is`nt Dave or Kev. John Stones isnt Fern.

The biggest concern to me is how many attempts we need to score compared to our opponents.

 

[Mancity1980]

Frustrating day obviously.

Few observations from me.

Atmosphere was poor which does not help.

Mendy being injured and Danilo has had a huge impact. Walker is shattered and Delph is simply cover and not top drawer. We badly miss silva. Can’t wait to watch de Bruyne second half of the season.

Desperate for us to defend our title and think we will if we win the next 3 games. To be 1 behind with 17 games left would be ok.

And ederson needs to make more saves for me.

I agree with all of that except the Ederson bit, there was no stopping those three goals. It more about preventing goals 1 and 3 in the first place, goal 2 is just one of those once every season sort of goals, on its own we would have still got the three points. We are not getting clean sheets anymore but it is not Ederson’s fault it is to do with the quality of chances we are conceding, it is a bit like Pep’s first season all over again.

 

[Mancity1980]

our* midfield

Seems like you enjoy my posts quite a bit

You only started posting two weeks ago and you make a mistake like that, people are going to be suspicious. I hope you are not a non-blue but if you are you will be sussed out (not by me I am not diligent!)

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I agree with all of that except the Ederson bit, there was no stopping those three goals. It more about preventing goals 1 and 3 in the first place, goal 2 is just one of those once every season sort of goals, on its own we would have still got the three points. We are not getting clean sheets anymore but it is not Ederson’s fault it is to do with the quality of chances we are conceding, it is a bit like Pep’s first season all over again.

Watch the build up leading to goal 2. Very preventable and that’s not even mentioning the shit header by Silva which put it straight on a plate for him. It was a great goal but our efforts in the passage of play before it were pathetic and indirectly led to that goal.

1/3 were just rank bad defending.