Crystal Palace (h) post-match thread

HarrytheBlue said:
Dias has, by pure example and in so many ways, already established himself as the best CB in the Prem. Wins all the duels, superb distribution, but a huge thing for us is the encouragement he gives to the team when something goes well - the fist pumps, the leadership. And he's only 23 - take that in - 23 !! Like one of those Attenborough docs about the local Lion population in Botswana - the new guy rolls into town and establishes himself as the top dog in the pride (or Lion) - but without all the bad stuff along the way......... Has all the others eating out of his hand. Ha ha......
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I’ve already seen enough to say that he’s going to go down as one of those game-changing transfers like Kompany, Silva, Aguero and De Bruyne. I think he’s going to be one of the best in the world.
 
Ban-jani said:
He was absolutely atrocious tonight, in every possible way.

Giving free kicks for fouls that weren’t, the foul throw that wasn’t, in the way of play several times, not up with play and guessing.

Then, following 3 goals and 6 subs in the 2nd half he gives 2 minutes. Considering how tight GD is and betting markets etc. he has a duty as a professional upholding the laws of the game to give the right time to be added on.

The fat idiot probably wanted to end it out of laziness.

Someone could literally lose the league by a single goal so why the fuck are officials allowed to just call it a day when they please?
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Yep. Maybe it was just being mistaken.
Lee Majors would have been a better ref...
 
A very good day indeed.
Momentum is massively with us now.
If we can get Kun back I can honestly see us having our most successful season to date.
As for all who were calling for Pep to go and for a complete overhaul, where are you?
You should be ashamed of yourselves
 
Absolutely superb performance tonight that.

As I've said many times before, don't read my posts about football as although I've been watching it for 40 years I still know nothing about it. I'm changing my mind, we will not struggle for 4th place this year, we're going to struggle to win less than 4 trophies. I genuinely think he's cracked it now, a proper winning formula.

Pep has created a team that is now hard to beat. That alone now has changed the dynamic of this season for every single club across Europe. We've another clean sheet against a team who've caused us a lot of problems in the past and we made them look like relegation fodder. Dias and Stones - the best central defenders in Europe - were immense. Does anyone remember Laporte? Teams now are going to have to do something special like the KdB cross now to score against us rather than smash it forward.

I can't make my mind up whether our tactics have changed and that's why the whole team is playing well, or if the signing of Dias has made everyone click. Either way, it's a masterstroke. The Dias signing has energised the team and I honestly don't think I've seen a better debut season for a long time.

I do think this season that it looks like everyone has struggled a bit. Our first few games were awful and my fear was that Pep had not learned from last year. How wrong I was. Liverpool have run out of steam and asthma inhalers and Klopp is going to have to rebuild that team and I suspect he will leave next year and go to Real. He got lucky one year just like Leicester did.

This season, Pep's hit on tactics that are going to win the title at the very least. This is why he is the greatest manager in Europe. His ability to adapt, change yet still stick to his principles is phenomenal. We truly are lucky to have him.

Our season is starting now. I'm going to buy 4 bottles of champagne tomorrow as I think we're honestly going to win the lot this season.
 
cleavers said:
He hadn't, he was finding a way to navigate a difficult period after no pre season, early covid, and lots of injuries.

At this point we've lost 2 games out of 28 this season, winning 20, a pretty amazing record given all the above, the fact he's kept us in there, and now effectively put us in pole position is a testament to how he "had lost his way".

Pep always looks disinterested with the media, he can't stand their inane questions, he's not alone.
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The team didn’t play like it. We were porous in defence and abject in attack.

Guardiola found a way but for mostly two years, not just this season, we’re well below our best. In the past few weeks (4 weeks or so) it feels like he’s back because he knows what the team needs as there’s now something to build from.

For me, our Lyon defeat showed he didn’t trust our defence before the game started and after it didn’t believe in our attack because we wasted so many chances. That belief came into this season.

Now (as in the recent 5/6 games) it feels like he really believes in one side of our team. The glint in his eye is back. I’m delighted to see it because the getting the offensive side firing is what he’s best at.
 
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