Crystal Palace (h) post-match thread

Had a nasty feeling this was a potential bannana skin, so very pleased with that. Needed to play better than the Brighton game, and we did. Stones, Dias and Fernandinho outstanding once again. Cracking goals. De Bruyne's pass made me jizz a little.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
 
The only slight negative for me is that we didn’t really break their bus — I believe all 4 goals were from dead ball situations. Those goals still count and it’s a major way for us to defeat these tactics but on our poor days those chances go begging and we complain that we didn’t create enough. It’s a nitpick and I’m really happy to see us playing well and with confidence but I think we are going to continue to see these dreadful tactics until we show we can carve it open
That's very picky
 
Stones has a steady no nonsense defender beside him and it has given him the platform to perform. Dias has turned our fortunes around.
Never heard of dias before we signed him i’ll be honest, but he’s been amazing for somebody so young, a born leader
 
I don't think we ever "lost it" we were just finding a rhythm hard to find, but I'll repeat what I posted earlier in all competitions we've played 28, won 20, lost 2, doesn't seem so bad now does it ?

No it doesn't but when the criticism was coming in those stats weren't as good as we'd played fewer games. I agree though injuries, covid, no pre season, no fan's have made it hard for many teams and we're no exception. It's great to see us more solid as we should always create opportunities given our talent, the problem last season was we were dominating games, missing chances and being sucker punched. At least recently we have cut out the mistakes at the back meaning taking one or two of our chances should win the game.
 

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.