Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Pete3206]

Paper thin midfield. Nice one Lambert

[Drummond]

Our formation always strikes me as 'Bradford' in that we chuck 3 strikers on every game with nobody to create chances except those players themselves. Let's face it, those three are not going to do that.

[tom jennings III]

That is pretty much the best side given the players available I think, if you take into account the fact that Lambert loves playing Gabs and Weimman wide. At least one of Gabby or Weimann deserve to be dropped but never gonna happen.

[brontebilly]

Ledley is missing for them.

Think Lambert has been too ambitious in his selection. With Sanchez in there we should easily dominate the Palace two of Jedinak and McArthur.

Gabby should be able to get some joy out of Kelly. Huge night for the club and manager.

[tom jennings III]

Horrible sinking feeling of deja vu tonight, good luck to all those at Selhurst, with your fantastic support the team will at least know they have something to play for!

[Ian.]

We're going to win tonight, I feel it in my bones I does.
2 -  1 but a late goal to scare us late on.

[silhillvilla]

Disappointing that we don't have a striker on the bench .

[Ian.]

Disappointing that we don't have a striker on the bench .

They're all on the bloody pitch!

[N'ZMAV]

Chris Turd is on the bench. Surprising.

[andyh]

Disappointing that we don't have a striker on the bench .

They are ALL on the pitch!

Be interesting to see how he's going change things and shake things up if the games not going our way.

[silhillvilla]

Palace playing 3/4 strikers too !

[garyshawsknee]

Not sure if that midfield is up for a cold night in South London. Need to get a goal in the first half me thinks.UTV.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'm guessing Lambert believes that we've been so excellent recently he's going to go all out for the 3 points with a 4-2-4 formation.

[andyh]

Yep, who needs a midfield ? Very overrated.

[richard moore]

Come on Villa, please win and give us some joy!