Crystal Palace (H) - Post-Match Thread

ancoats said:
the midweek game is bigger than the derby
pep should play more of the quality youth players we have at home vs games like palace just to fresh it up and rest the big players. we just look so leggy and dare i say slow and KDB is not the player he has been for 4 or 5 years

its a puzzle to what is wrong with KDB ? is it a injury problem that is taking a long time to get over or is it just burn out and got nothing in the tank. what i will say is we have B.silva gundogan foden all good enough for KDB to take a break of a couple of weeks and lets see what that does for him
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Maybe a chance to give Palmer more minutes. Cant do worse than KDB at present.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Aside from the ref also sticking it to us, we were our own worst enemy.

Laporte started as he meant to go on, which thankfully means Stones will now come back in to the fold.

No use keeping the pitch wide if you don't have anyone in the middle or at top to make it work today.

Palace forced us to play the extra pass out wide and doubled up on being aggressive on Jesus and Phil.

Cancelo and Walker were poor, as was Grealish, who seemingly wants to play safe and has had all spotenitity removed by Pep's demands.

We have a paint my numbers system, so it only needs to go a man down and the whole thing falls apart.

Pissed off with the decisions against us and thought it strange Pep waited five minutes to introduce Stones.

Jesus was our best player and felt we needed to try and get him and Bernie all the ball more in second half to try and at least commit Palace a bit more.

Eddie was ropey for the goal, as it was a scuffed shot.

We move on, Liverpool dropping points today was also a surprise and pressure now on with United to come.
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Fair assessment. For me though the key was Ederson letting the half hit shot in which made it uphill. KDB is so off the boil, the tea's gone cold.
Never mind though, looking forward to the next 2 huge games. Would happily settle for a win v Brugges and point at Rags
 
Eight points dropped against three bang average sides. Aided and abetted by the officials allowing them to time waste and spoil the game with impunity. We fucked about for ages replacing Kompany and we have done the same with a left back and striker. Our whole attack needs a revamp, but who? We need fast tough clinical finishers but there aren't a lot out there. If we could get them and shift Mahrez and Sterling for a decent fee it would be great. Grealish has to do more too, often he flatters to deceive. He looks all poise and balance but he needs more end product, early days for him though. Also how many of those pointless diagonal balls did we play to the far post to our midgets forwards?

We look okay against teams who have a go but clueless against the Southampton's and Palace's of this world.

We looked better when KDB went off and had our best spell of the game. He's in the side on reputation and hope at the minute.

I am truly dreading the Derby, they are an upgrade on Southampton and Palace and they will play exactly the same way but with their better quality be more dangerous.

What a shit weekend, the only positive was the dippers dripping points
 
The Southampton 0-0 was our worst performance under Pep. That today was our second.

Yes you can blame not having a striker which is a valid point but not having an outlet to aim for does not excuse some of the worlds most talented players for not getting the Fabian Delph’s right

So many underhit, overhit, behind passes that are bread and butter.
 
There are games you walk away from and say we were never gonna win that one despite the calibre of opposition. Today was one of them. Move on forget it go again midweek. We are as the song goes best team in the land and all the world.
 
When i seen the team today i thought all things considered that was and prob is our strongest 11. Smiled and thought a nailed on win. Rags away at spuds, the school teacher has lost the players and spurs at home will be way to strong another banker.
£300 double, was like printing money.
Drowning my sorrows with port and brandy.
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Fair assessment. For me though the key was Ederson letting the half hit shot in which made it uphill. KDB is so off the boil, the tea's gone cold.
Never mind though, looking forward to the next 2 huge games. Would happily settle for a win v Brugges and point at Rags
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Goal down in first half is not so bad but a man down is a different story .
 
KDB is like that prize strawberry that has gone from showstopper to rotten fruit in the blink of an eye! It happens and we need to realise his days are numbered. He, Sterling and Mahrez now offer a combined zero and need moving on. Lean years ahead I feel.
 
Akira said:
Don't even really need to sell anyone. We still have the 150m we supposedly saved from the Kane bid.
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sterling must be sold and his place taken by a new striker
i would take £50million right now for sterling and go and sign haaland in jan
even it takes a crazy bid for dortmund to sell i would still pay it. knowing he has a buy out in the summer of £67million or something like that. we just can not leave it for somebody else to steel him from under our noses
offer dortmund £100million plus add-ons right now even ask if they fancy sterling
 
Tricky_Trev said:
Our last 60 Saturday 3pm kick offs stretching back to January 2015:

51 Wins
7 Draws
2 Losses

BOTH defeats and one of the draws to Palace…
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Love a good stat! Would be good to know if those three matches happened after we had a midweek fixture & they didn’t. Still think when we’re up against a team with an identity, with an intelligent coach who has a full week to prepare their team, we find it tough - because it is. Thankfully the rags also have a mid week game this week - not that I’d class them as a team with an identity.

When we lost on Wednesday and I saw which teams were left in the carabao I knew we’d win the league this season. Today hasn’t changed my mind. December, January are going by be critical in what I think will be the hardest season ever - lots of international players looking leggy. I’m hoping for an Egypt Senegal Afcon final.
 
ancoats said:
sterling must be sold and his place taken by a new striker
i would take £50million right now for sterling and go and sign haaland in jan
even it takes a crazy bid for dortmund to sell i would still pay it. knowing he has a buy out in the summer of £67million or something like that. we just can not leave it for somebody else to steel him from under our noses
offer dortmund £100million plus add-ons right now even ask if they fancy sterling
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Agree 100%. Meant that we do not need to sell before we buy.
 
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