Crystal Palace (H) | Post Match Thread

[bigbluekev]

I wonder what that moron Rory Jennings thinks now about Haaland not scoring 15 goals. What a wanker!

 

[crossbar]

Thought we looked a lot better when Cancelo went off. He wasn’t really getting involved much offensively or defensively and most of his passes were off the cuff balls to Foden he had to try and make something of.

I don’t get Cancelo. He’s so uneven. One week he is handsdown the best right back in the world. Another week he can be so absolute shit. It’s almost fascinating.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Talk about a game of two halves .
The first was slow slow ponderous passing . Only when Bernie injected some pace and ran at them did we break through.
Our defensive unit as a whole looks weak .

 

[Roachy]

Talk about a game of two halves .
The first was slow slow ponderous passing . Only when Bernie injected some pace and ran at them did we break through.
Our defensive unit as a whole looks weak .

Looked like we went 3 at the back when Cancelo went off, which really helped tbh. Not saying we need it more often but the change worked yesterday.

 

[Dave El Magico]

Great game of football between two teams who played really well on the day with one team manged by Pep who wanted to splay football and the other team managed by a knobhead who had his team time wasting, diving, and feigning inuury at every opportunity yet we came through and won the game.

Fuck your shit Vieira you dickhead. Football won today!


Haaland was fantastic but Bernardo and Johnny Boulders were absolutely superb!

Great game, great day; I loved it!

Really??? I am sure he would love it if you told him to his face. Moronic comment and totally unnecessary

 

[paulchapo]

Trams only running directly to the Etihad while work is done on the Eccles line. The people running Metrolink will not see the benefit and go back to the usual schedules when the work is completed.

As for those Morons, even though I am 76 years old I would have walked up to them and had some choice words to say. Disgusting behaviour .

Did you get caught up with the cricket supporters leaving OT after the test finished? Our tram was actually at the station next to the ground when a huge roar went up which I presume was the last wicket.

They weren't running direct all day as I was in Altrincham at 10:00 and they were just going to Piccadilly so it looks like they run there for match traffic which is fine. Nobody expects them to run to the Etihad on non match days but if they do so; n matchdays it will be great.

Mate the days pricks like that listen to anybody without resorting to violence are long gone, so it's a fight or worse stabbed if you intervene. Trust me anybody who said a word to them it would have erupted into violence, they were pissed/coked out of their tiny brains. The tram was packed so if you had a seat you stayed sat down and would have had to fight through people to get to them. Loads were commenting on them but just wanted to get home.

Yes it was packed at OT with them.

 

[jaiguruKun]

The challenge on Cancelo was an intentional elbow and should have been a red card.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I don’t get Cancelo. He’s so uneven. One week he is handsdown the best right back in the world. Another week he can be so absolute shit. It’s almost fascinating.

When he has days where he offers nothing offensively then basically he offers nothing at all.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Great game of football between two teams who played really well on the day with one team manged by Pep who wanted to splay football and the other team managed by a knobhead who had his team time wasting, diving, and feigning inuury at every opportunity yet we came through and won the game.

Fuck your shit Vieira you dickhead. Football won today!


Haaland was fantastic but Bernardo and Johnny Boulders were absolutely superb!

Great game, great day; I loved it!

Paddy is not the only manager who instructs his team to run down the clock from the first kick. Ten or fifteen teams last season demonstrated that it was their major tactical manoeuvre after fielding a team of cross country runners who could maintain some shape using a four man defensive midfield and a back five. I just cannot understand what refs are upto with completely ignoring the timewasting. Fifty thousand inside the stadium knew what that goalie was about. Why are refs so bloody keen on blowing for a foul when the 'foul' of timewasting appears not to register on any odd brain cell they have.

 

[bluesince76]

Looked like we went 3 at the back when Cancelo went off, which really helped tbh. Not saying we need it more often but the change worked yesterday.

It helped because the 3 at the back was 1 more than we had in the first half! We've always looked vulnerable to the basic ball over the top, but with just 2 centre halves covering the full pitch, it doesn't even need to be a good ball.

Sitting in the family stand, roughly in live with the 18 yd line on our LHS for the first half, there was never anyone outside me. Dias was first, Cancelo in front of him and Foden was then in front of him. None of them had an angled ball out and the only width to the pitch was from Mahrez staying wide.

I'm not sure if that was intentional or some players not getting it, but we were so narrow and the fullbacks couldn't/wouldn't overlap, so it was fairly easy for Palace to defend against but also gave them easy out balls, as there was so much space.

Second half, Cancelo at least got wide and beyond Foden before he was taken off. Bernardo charged the game though, so much more direct than Mahrez had been.