Crystal Palace (H) - Post Match

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

How annoying was that, to fight our way back into a tough match with 2 very well worked goals and 2 fab finishes from Kun, to toss it all away within a couple of minutes by conceding a stupid goal. They did piss all at our end of the pitch but we still gifted them 2 goals.
Another meh performance from Raz, should be benched for a while to show him he is no way an automatic starter until he starts playing well.
Stones is a mediocre defender but a good ball player, he is weak and too easily pushed aside...not a great skill set combination for a supposed top class defender playing at a very high level.
Usual bile directed at Gundogan in the match day thread when he was well short of being the worst performer on the pitch.
1st half was especially insipid, we need to start scoring/taking chances in the 1st half at home....and stop falling behind so often.

 

[The Preacher]

Ready for this season to end now - with Carabao and FA Cups retained, of course. (Can’t somehow see the CL trophy in the cabinet, though.)

 

[alexmcity]

Nope he sent out the team with the pedestrian gundogan, the totally inept John stones and someone that's masquerading as raheeem sterling. We have lost 5 times already this season, we haven't managed more than 3 wins in a row yes that's 3 in a row. Lost to absolute muck on several occasions. You can have all the possession you want, not much good if you don't make it count. If we continue like this we could end up losing 8 league games this season. How would you feel about that.? The annoying part is it was all so unnecessary.

That's stupid moaning. Pep can't play only the players who are in top form right now. We have a game in 3 days, then another game in the cups, then a very important game in the league cup and then Spurs away. He can't play our most in form players all the time, and Sterling won't regain form by sitting on the bench, we need him at top level for the CL.

 

[kwm1988]

Sure

Stones a convenient scape goat , any centre half is gonna struggle one on one against zaha, real issue is we’ve just gone one up with a couple minutes left and left zaha and wickham on a two on two against stones and Fernandinho smh .
What a frustrating season it’s been in the league .
It’s just not happened for us , thought we weren’t too bad today , again though two shots two goals .
Any one else think our squad might be just too bloated ?
We were brilliant at villa , any other team puts in that performance that team survey starts the next week .
We’ve got so many top players though we have to rotate to keep everyone happy and it’s causing us problems because just feels like we can’t get any consistency going .
Sane and Laporte aren’t even back yet , top players aren’t even gonna make the bench soon .
Rotation for rotations sake seems like it’s hurting us now.
Prems been Liverpools for a while , still think could be a good season though , couple trophy’s potentially and excited about champions league .
Just enjoy the ride :)

surely not survey typo

 

[BosnianBlue]

You were doing so well till the last sentence. Gundogan was useless.

the only thing useless is your post. He had a fucking great game. People picking him after today are hopeless. Had dozen of great through balls in 2nd half alone. Whatever we made from wings was started by his top balls. Him and Mendy doing stuff together were the best thing apart from Kun's goals.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Gundogan too slow with everything he does. Made one decent pass today and everyone's supposed to suck him off. Takes too many touches and spins around a lot with no real end product 90% of the time. Rather have Rodri in there with De Bruyne and either Silva.

Probably not a popular opinion and someone will point out how he positively affects the game. Just not that impressed with him most of the time, has one decent game out of five.

 

[Cornish_Blue]

Ready for this season to end now - with Carabao and FA Cups retained, of course. (Can’t somehow see the CL trophy in the cabinet, though.)

That will do. Like you said, CL seems a distant dream after watching today.

 

[cityboy1]

We should buy zaha so he cant do that to use eveytime we play against him

 

[Semper aggressus]

Kun is irreplaceable. We need to start him and Jesus together as often as we can.

Mahrez needs to start ahead of David Silva now. Rodri instead of Gundogan.

Laporte cannot come back soon enough!

Fernandinho is the second best DM in the world and needs to play there. He's not a centre back.

We keep seeing City listed in the top 5 richest clubs, and worth over £4bn as a group - we need to use some of this on defenders asap.

 

[sir baconface]

PEP We tried to do everything. The spirit was there. We tried and tried. We came back and we dropped points. But it’s football.

PEP We played similar to the way we did at Villa with @benmendy23 attacking down the left and players in the middle. We struggled a little for the first 10 mins of the second half but then I think we did everything. Palace didn't do much but they got a point.

Great service publishing these pearls, Karen, but I’d rather listen to the talking clock.