Crystal Palace PL (H) Post match thread

Peps clearly trying a new system but he’s trying to play high full backs with walker and gvardiol. It’s suicide. Even if it was last years walker, he still shit in the final third. So what do you gain? It just leaves us wide open to the counter.

We’re off the back of a mentally and physically exhausting season. Why push players for the full 90 when they’re clearly fucked? If Kovacic, Nunez or Stones can only play once a week then Why did pep play them in a nothing game?

Pep has his reasons. I’d love to know what his thinking is right now

Real mind fuck from him right now
 
Withnail said:
The balance of the team is not right and Gundo leaving is probably one of the main reasons.
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Gundogan not being replaced is an absolute joke.

Still we can all look forward to those Kovacic goals in the second half of the season
 
Who didnt see that coming?

Almost every game this season I've moaned about us completely giving up all intent to actually score once we take the lead and there's exactly why. The game was won, even they were just waiting for the third so they can wave the white flag, all we had to do was carry on at the same intensity, bag the inevitable third and then you can drop a gear and play keep ball.

We aren't solid enough defensively to protect narrow leads and aren't good enough on the ball to limit the silly mistakes that lead to conceding. We also don't have it in us to respond, up the level and score again when it does show signs of swinging against us. It's a stupid tactical decision and it's probably costing us the title.

How are we creating chances in games? Theres no plan of attack. Without doku we get fuck all from the wings and we dont play quickly or directly enough to cut open teams down the middle. It's just don't lose the ball and hope somebody decides to do something at some point.

Why wasn't the benched used today? Lewis was flagging badly after about 70 minutes. Kovacic has had 2 very good games and ready to go, Nunes who was very good midweek or stones were all options to freshen the midfield up and we choose not to make a sub once more. I know we havent had a lot of options of late but pep wanted this. Hes deliberately handicapped himself with a tiny squad and now seemingly doesnt even trust more than about 14 outfield players. Can he not see half the team look fucked every game after 60-70 minutes?


Think most of us said we can't drop anymore points after the villa loss until new year as a minimum and we drop 2 in what should be a comfortable home game.

We all know we've clawed back bigger deficits in the past but we've never been chasing 2 and right now 3 teams which makes it so much more unlikely and we've already played some important home games where we would typically close the gap. We have to go to anfield and spurs in the second half of the season where we never get results, we're going to go 5 and 6 points behind arsenal and liverpool tomorrow, then they play each other whilst we are in Saudi and suddenly were approaching a double figure gap over Christmas.
 
s1ty m said:
It really is. Gvardiol looks like a Championship full-back, and a really crap one. Walker looks finished. Dias is what these days? Akanji is a mistake waiting to happen, the goalkeeper is iffy, and the best two defenders, Stones and Ake, are, mysteriously, not first pick. Bullshit.

The transfer activity though, next level awful.
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Lol, got any positives
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
I don't have 50 years, just the 40.
Cityitis shouldn't be making an appearance these days - we all have to accept that for the stature of the club we've become.
But at the same time there are some right entitled fuckers on here. We're not quite right currently, so pull together and support the club TOP to BOTTOM - most importantly ALL the players who pull on the shirt.
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Sadly, it doesn't work like that John.

We had a shit transfer window over the summer, Pep's team selection has been erratic, and his game management has been fucking dreadful

We need a couple of decent signings in January in addition to getting KDB, Doku and John Stones back full-time.

The last thing we needed this season was to be involved in the tin pot World Club tournament.

Getting mugged by Woy Hodgson shows just how far Pep is off his game this season.
 
Results like today although disappointing have me preferring a CL win at Wembley rather than 4 on the spin
 
Doesn’t matter about a good first half it what happens after 90 that really matters and we just are not good enough at this time
 
Fucking hell what’s happened to us? Needs sorting if we are to anything this season.That’s at least 8 points gone in the last few mins of games. Might even be more than that.
 
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