Crystal Palace (H) 11/5: Build-Up & Match Thread

[The Bear]

In other news, Luton are going down.

I'd have liked them to stay up at Forest's expense.

 

[Alan]

We have at least created chances, but really feels we've only started playing after the match was already lost.

 

[t3ch]

Let’s gooooo red and pen

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Clear penalty.

Excellent from Cunha

 

[t3ch]

Ahhh dammit it’s outside the box

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I retract that

Clear foul, but not a penalty.

 

[Squeak]

Outside the box....

 

[Jinky]

Clear penalty.

Excellent from Cunha

Nah, he’s about a foot outside the box.

 

[Alan]

Fuck me, football is so fucking weird.

Also lolz at Chris Richards; what are you doing at this level bud?

 

[Jack Regan]

Red card too. Gonna be overturned (the penalty anyway).

 

[The Bear]

Was out tbf.

 

[YoungWolf]

Did he give a straight red?!

Edit: ah okay second yellow

 

[Alan]

Red card too. Gonna be overturned (the penalty anyway).

Second yellow tho.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It doesn't matter, but why don't players go off at the shortest point anymore?

 

[MARKakaJIM]

If only there was some kind of way they could practice this or be told to do it

Sometimes no amount of practice will lead to something being mastered, the individuals have to be capable of understanding the situations and making the right decisions. I don't think half this group are personally, as a short term fix you'd take that away from them and go back to more of a Nuno style deeper defence where there is no decision to be made, you just sit deep and restrict the space behind regardless.

That goal was just a clusterfuck though. Maybe on another day Toti makes the first challenge and it's all good, everyone else pushes up to meet him but once he's lost the challenge he's got to try and get back in position rather than stand ball watching with his man goal side of him. Kilman should really drop when he's 2v1, it's generally too easy to play the ball through in the gap between stepping away from the runner and getting to the ball carrier. Although tbf he did actually manage it in this case and it was Semedo that played him on with the world's most pointless covering run, if he'd given up instead it would've been offside I think.

There's just no collective thought in the team, either from the coaching or just naturally between the individuals within it. It's like a Sunday league side just turning up an hour before kick off, being told roughly where to stand and seeing how it goes for 90 minutes.

 

[Squeak]

Cunha no left foot.... wasted opportunity....

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Cunha has to trust his left foot there!

 

[Alan]

It doesn't matter, but why don't players go off at the shortest point anymore?

I think Rayan might be the only player I see do this consistently.

 

[YoungWolf]

Sometimes no amount of practice will lead to something being mastered, the individuals have to be capable of understanding the situations and making the right decisions. I don't think half this group are personally, as a short term fix you'd take that away from them and go back to more of a Nuno style deeper defence where there is no decision to be made, you just sit deep and restrict the space behind regardless.

That goal was just a clusterfuck though. Maybe on another day Toti makes the first challenge and it's all good, everyone else pushes up to meet him but once he's lost the challenge he's got to try and get back in position rather than stand ball watching with his man goal side of him. Kilman should really drop when he's 2v1, it's generally too easy to play the ball through in the gap between stepping away from the runner and getting to the ball carrier. Although tbf he did actually manage it in this case and it was Semedo that played him on with the world's most pointless covering run, if he'd given up instead it would've been offside I think.

There's just no collective thought in the team, either from the coaching or just naturally between the individuals within it. It's like a Sunday league side just turning up an hour before kick off, being told roughly where to stand and seeing how it goes for 90 minutes.

If you think that last bit isn’t damning on the coaching I don’t know what to say. If it was isolated incidents I could understand but it’s constant across the entire season.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think Rayan might be the only player I see do this consistently.

Who was it we lost to suspension for not doing this in Europe?