Crystal Palace (H) Post Match Thread

cityfan46 said:
Mahrez reminds me of Long John Silver (only one leg). Stones is definitely not for midfield and as for Walker, words fail me. Need to spend in January, cover for Fernandinho is a must. Always play your best team if you want to win!!!!
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Selling Sancho for peanuts and spending big money on Mahrez seems insane now but that's football. He will need to improve a lot in the Spring imo and hopefully he will.
 
Father Paul said:
Maybe you are right but having reflected about this for a considerable period of time I think since the Rags game we have been very poor, in particular our defence. I said for the last two years that the league would be won or lost in the period after the November international break and this might be the way it turns out. We are losing that spark of last season and doubt is starting to creep into the players minds. Hopefully this is a temporary thing and we will soon be back on the bike. But losing at home to a team like Palace is a massive blow and one which we will need to put behind us big time starting tomorrow. The Liverpool game is a must not lose now and one we really need to win. Perhaps this campaign is just one too many for Vincent, Ferno, Merlin and Kun the spine of so much of our success or just maybe if we are still close come April they will have one last throw of the dice. Here's hoping. Happy Christmas. Keep the faith!!
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We have to have a succession plan in place for all four of those players otherwise we will go backwards before we go forwards again.

Liverpool have the fact they have not won a title in 28 years to hand their hat on , they have had the side to do it on a couple of occasions since but come up short.

This year if they stay relatively injury free and get the rub of the green in matches they should have dropped points in the will finally succeed.

Spurs won't go away either , managers last chance to get a trophy before he goes to the swamp.
 
Let’s in all emotion that now hopefully has drifted, not forget that Palace first shot on goal in their first attack was indeed a goal ( brought back the time when Bravo was in goal). Their second was another goal of the season contender.
Yes. Loads went wrong. But even in the last 10 mins we could’ve scored another one.
 
Sorry if this has already been mentioned but this is first chance I’ve had to post since ‘visiting’ Newport A&E, and am still ‘morphined’ off my face. But could it be that maybe The Champions league is top priority?
Be gentle x
 
NorCalBlue said:
The first one, I'll give you, but a one in a thousand worldy and a penalty aren't exactly signs that teams can score against us at will.
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But the way we defend! I always think that we have a solidity at the back but too many niggles at the back of my mind that we are gonna concede with every oppo attack! But if the emphasis is on attack bodies are upfield when there is a counter and we are a little threadbare. Palace probably had more luck in Saturday's game than they've might have had in the last ten. How many shots did we have that were blocked? How many hit a defender's heel and screwed into goal? When is Townsend gonna replicate that goal, and Schlupp his? The way we play is vulnerable if our attacks bear little fruit!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
But the way we defend! I always think that we have a solidity at the back but too many niggles at the back of my mind that we are gonna concede with every oppo attack! But if the emphasis is on attack bodies are upfield when there is a counter and we are a little threadbare. Palace probably had more luck in Saturday's game than they've might have had in the last ten. How many shots did we have that were blocked? How many hit a defender's heel and screwed into goal? When is Townsend gonna replicate that goal, and Schlupp his? The way we play is vulnerable if our attacks bear little fruit!
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True we are not defending well and it is backed up by the fact we have been conceeding in all games, not just vs Palace.
For me, the defensive unit has seen lots of “rotation”, never a good thing, but seems to have lost form without the midfield players > David, Kev, Dino.
Earlier in the season Mendy and Walker were bombing forward, now the defence seems static.
Injuries before and during the game probably cost us at Chelsea, but the Palace fiasco was simply down to bad performances from a number of players.
 
Ive just watched Sergio's goals on Sky and twice I hear "Where would Manchester City be without Aguero's goals?" They'd be exactly where any team would be without the goals of their leading goal scorer. And now Pep is on talking to the failed manager Gary Nutter who poses the idea that the season before last Guardiola was building his team round Silva, de Bruyne and Aguero. Funny how those three are just coming back from lay offs!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
But the way we defend! I always think that we have a solidity at the back but too many niggles at the back of my mind that we are gonna concede with every oppo attack! But if the emphasis is on attack bodies are upfield when there is a counter and we are a little threadbare. Palace probably had more luck in Saturday's game than they've might have had in the last ten. How many shots did we have that were blocked? How many hit a defender's heel and screwed into goal? When is Townsend gonna replicate that goal, and Schlupp his? The way we play is vulnerable if our attacks bear little fruit!
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Really annoys me how the shots to goals ratio against us is so high at one one end and so low at the other. If we had the luck teams had against us, I swear we'd score 8 goals a game. It's ludicrous.
 
Blue Llama said:
That's just wishful thinking. There is no evidence that he can read a game as a top DM does or be capable of beating a man. In fact against Palace he was making the same errors and losing the ball that Kompany made when he was tried as a DM. And there were many on here said the same as you that Kompany would become a great DM. Far better to get a good DM than make the mistake of playing players out of position
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Agreed, some say it's wishful thinking. What type of thinking are you applying? There were many who said Stonsey (& indeed Pep) should stop playing out from the back rather than to continue, and do it better, imo this is a similar situation. I, and the "...many on here..." are in the continue and improve camp, you're clearly not. Let's hope we end up being right and you, along with the other whiners, are wrong for the second time. Stones will be immense!
 
Newquayblue said:
Agreed, some say it's wishful thinking. What type of thinking are you applying? There were many who said Stonsey (& indeed Pep) should stop playing out from the back rather than to continue, and do it better, imo this is a similar situation. I, and the "...many on here..." are in the continue and improve camp, you're clearly not. Let's hope we end up being right and you, along with the other whiners, are wrong for the second time. Stones will be immense!
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You've got a fkin cheek calling me a whiner for saying Stones is not a DM!! There is a difference from playing the ball out from the back as a CB would do and carrying it forward as a DM would do until they see an opening for a pass. You obviously don't recognise the difference, so end of conversation as I have better ways of wasteing my time than on you.
 
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