Crystal Palace (H) Post Match Thread

There has been so much hindsight analysis on team selection suggesting Pep got it all wrong, Adrian Durham on Talksport calling it’arrogance’ Is just ridiculous! This is such a busy period and unfortunately Fernandinho can’t play every minute of every game over this period. KDB and Aguero are still not 100% fit so need to be managed, and the XI players put out yesterday should have had enough to get the three pts but it wasn’t to be.

There has been one or two indications in recent games that this kind of result may be on the cards and Palace are the kind of side where it wouldn’t surprise you if they were the ones to inflict it.

Every game over Christmas now takes on additional pressure, the Liverpool game at home is now massive.

If re regain the levels we’re capable of we should still finish top, but how we bounce back now is crucial.

Do you think Foden, a player who most definitely does not need resting, could have played in Gundogan's position yesterday, allowing Gundogan to drop into Fern's position, which he already has numerous times before?
 
100%.

Totally baffling how Pep would want 3 CD's on against Palace. If anything we needed more ball players to make sure we could pass through them at pace.
Morning Billy, hope you're well.
I'm pretty sure Pep has forgotten more about football than i know but Stones instead of KDB seemed plain daft to me.
 
There has been so much hindsight analysis on team selection suggesting Pep got it all wrong, Adrian Durham on Talksport calling it’arrogance’ Is just ridiculous! This is such a busy period and unfortunately Fernandinho can’t play every minute of every game over this period. KDB and Aguero are still not 100% fit so need to be managed, and the XI players put out yesterday should have had enough to get the three pts but it wasn’t to be.

There has been one or two indications in recent games that this kind of result may be on the cards and Palace are the kind of side where it wouldn’t surprise you if they were the ones to inflict it.

Every game over Christmas now takes on additional pressure, the Liverpool game at home is now massive.

If re regain the levels we’re capable of we should still finish top, but how we bounce back now is crucial.

Nail on head
 
Since the beginning of December we have played 7 matches already and will play another 5 by the time we have played Burton - twelve matches in four competitions in little over a calendar month. In that time we have been without the services of several key players through injury and others have been returning to fitness. Pep resisted the temptation to rush players back too soon. I presume, for instance, that most on here want KdB to play against Liverpool, and so they should remember the fuss made when he was injured late on against Fulham - and against Palace last Christmas. Otamendi has come in for criticism, the same Otamendi so widely praised last season. Some have actually discovered that most of our squad are sub standard! And the manager is not much better!

Well, Pep picked his team and we lost. It's disappointing but it happens - it's just not happened to us very often - and I still reckon the loss of 3 points to Palace will be seen as insignificant to the benefits of having a fresh squad this Christmas, New Year and for the rest of the season.
 

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