Match Day Thread Crystal Palace vs Southampton 03/12/2016 KO 3pm

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We have two points to our name all year when the opposition scores first: the home draws against Watford and Sunderland in August. A come-from-behind team we aren't.
 
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How many times can we say bad day at the office? There's no excuse to be consistently dropping points to teams at the bottom of the league. It's a serious problem.

There's also no excuse not to sign a striker in January as well, the fixture pile up isn't going away.
 
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Well for everyone that was willing to sacrifice this game for the Europa League one on Thursday, the sacrifice has been made (wasn't expecting it to be with arguably our best 11 though).
 
We've defended poorly today and that's a little embarrassing but **** happens. The defence have generally been good this season. What concerns me is the continued lack of goals. When we went 2 down I wonder how many of the players genuinely believed we could score 3? It's the same problem time after time against these Palace and Hull type sides. What we're doing as an attacking force is clearly not working and Puel needs to change something.
 
This is the worst Saints display since the cup debacle at Sheffield United a couple of years ago, poor defensively tepid in midfield, toothless up top and lacking commitment from the start. Palace were there for the taking, just like Hull were, but we just didn't control the game like we do at SMS. It's easy to blame Fraser, but nobody comes away with any credit IMO.
 
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Been saying for a while that the Forsterbshould be a cause for concern. He's looks shaky very often and only looks good because he barely has anything to do.

I did mention this some time ago but got shouted down. I won't go over again what I think his faults are but he's not the "wall" he's made out to be.