Match Day Thread Away to Crystal Palace

Thought the result was fair as tough as it was
As I say let’s hope we buck our ideas up
Not dropping points - pressure always builds that’s now gone and we will still have a lead

Chelsea game now massive again

 

Wirtz needs to be dropped to the bench until he’s got the speed of the league sorted - tidy player but seems lightweight and is trying a little too hard now. We look far more balanced when we have last years three in the middle and Gapko on the left. We do miss Diaz imo.

not getting Guehi looks like a massive miss too but not much we could do about that.

well played Palace - they look very good and thoroughly deserved the win.

 

Just watching the highlights on YouTube. Wirtz has no excuse for not scoring from his chance. I’m not sure why Salah has his hand in the air for the Chiesa goal either

 

How do you get someone up to speed if isn’t playing though

 

Sounds like we were a bit **** and deserved to lose.

Palace seem to have our number at the moment, much like they had Man Citys a few years ago.

 

As I said to mito, you can argue all day about who, why and when someone should have scored (for either side) but it comes down to the goals that were actually scored.

Palace got the luck today with the goals scored because one came from a corner that was a goal kick and the other came after the game should have been over. Whatever other arguments there are for who 'deserved" it, from my perspective, it comes down to the goals actually scored because they're the only ones that count. It works both ways, of course, we've had luck on our side too for some of our goals.

 

Palace now the only unbeaten team in the league.

So they were in good form tbf

 

C Palace now 18 games unbeaten in all comps...........this was always going to be a tough one.

 

Longest unbeaten stretch in top 5 leagues. Was always a tough game. 1-1 would have been a decent result.

Makes next two even more important now though, away to Chelsea who been down to 10 in last 2 games and might be short of CBs now but aLeah’s tricky game and then United after internationals

 

I still say slot should have left konate on, put chiesa for isak earlier and having seen the state of Jones put on.endo.

We lost all shape once we had jones and szoboszlai at cm.

Both isak and wirtz shot when they should habe passed. Thry were trying to hard

 

Salah again pulled down blatantly in the penalty area. Any other team, that's given. No matter how poor you play, you should still be refereed fairly. A scored penalty then, changes the game.