Palace FA Cup Post Match

Pleatfooted said:
Just seen highlights on motd for me neither yaya challenge was a card
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The tackle was a booking but only for us. No other top PL team would have been carded for that. This is the same pillock who booked Sergio for diving when the entire world knew it was a stonewall penalty. And the challenge over by the touchline - never was there a sufficient push from Yaya that would have sent a thirteen or fourteen stone footballer down to the ground. Did yer like Yaya's goal, Sam?
 
malg said:
Can people please pack it in with this 'great save' by Caballero. Now before anyone says I'm anti-Willy (!), I'm not. I backed him after all the shite he got last season after the Chelsea game. However, the save today wasn't great, people are just using it as a stick to beat Bravo with. It was an OK save, but certainly not anything that needs highlighting.
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I think it's called sardonic humour. Something that's commonly found in the football fraternity and particularly among supporters of Manchester City FC.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
The tackle was a booking but only for us. No other top PL team would have been carded for that. This is the same pillock who booked Sergio for diving when the entire world knew it was a stonewall penalty. And the challenge over by the touchline - never was there a sufficient push from Yaya that would have sent a thirteen or fourteen stone footballer down to the ground. Did yer like Yaya's goal, Sam?
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Concur fully mate, the encouraging thing was yaya chasing bk to make that challenge, last season he wouldn't have been within 30 yards of him
 
I see the BBC have done a highlights package of yesterdays best goals, stating "Willian & Welbeck star in Saturday's best goals". Now don't get me wrong there are some good goals in it but they haven't shown one of ours in it. How can Willian's effort be any better than Yaya's?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38786219
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I just want to emphasise something about the two passes. As soon as Gabriel Jesus goes into the tussle for the ball he knows exactly what he's going to do with it if he wins it. That is, he's seen Raheem lurking already (because he couldn't possibly have looked while he's scrapping, obviously) and he knows that he's got to make space for himself to play that perfect angled ball if he gets it. So that had everything – balls, to win the tackle, vision to know the best thing to do with it, and huge skill to execute it cleanly. For a lad of that age, that is no ordinary thing.
But Silva's is, if anything, a touch more sublime. Sané makes the sign and clearly signals to him where he's going to be and what he wants Silva to do. All fine and dandy, but Spanish Dave knows that whatever's obvious to him is equally obvious to the Palace defenders. So fine, he's got the message, but he's looking mostly to the right, to someone who is in fact free there (can't remember who) as he advances those ten yards. Only very briefly and discreetly does he check Sané's progress. He brilliantly decoys the Palace defence's attention away from Sané, or at the very least splits it, holds the ball exactly, to the split second, long enough, and then delivers a perfectly weighted pass which is slowing as Sané comes on to it, making his job all the easier.
I don't know if I'm alone in this – maybe I am – but my feeling over these last two games, Spurs and this, is that we've seen flashes of what this team can be, and should be, about twelve months up the road. That's why patience is vital. This season may be a washout, I'd be very disappointed if we didn't get top four, for sure, but I'm utterly certain that it is all going to come together, in an explosive way, within the next season or so. You look at these kids – Sterling, Sané, Jesus – a still young De Bruyne, Silva and Aguero who've still got tons of mileage in them; then you look at that under-18 team. It's frightening, really. There's work to be done on that defence, no question about it, and the keeper situation is worrying. If Pep's got any pull at all, those things will be fixed. Good times...
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Thought Sane played his part by checking his run when the initial pass from Silva didn't come. He thought about it when most forwards would have run off side
 
pablomurphy said:
I see the BBC have done a highlights package of yesterdays best goals, stating "Willian & Welbeck star in Saturday's best goals". Now don't get me wrong there are some good goals in it but they haven't shown one of ours in it. How can Willian's effort be any better than Yaya's?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38786219
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Probably because the producer is a rag and convinced he shouldn't have been on the field
 
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