Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Hampshire Villa]

We are still awful. Defence played well, Guzan had a bit of a mare unusually for him. Benteke magic for his goal. Gabby, Weimann, cleverly and Lowton gave the ball away too much.
It reminded me of a cup game where we were the plucky underdogs, who came and defended the whole game, and got a goal against the run of play.
We play too narrow, and give the ball away too much.
Hutton MOTM for me.

Did Lowton play? Or was he that bad that I didn't notice him?
It's Westwood who gets to me. A woeful set piece taker and all round general footballer.

Lowton didn't play.

Neither did Gabby or Westwood.

 or Weimann

[ciggiesnbeer]

Happy with the win, but to be honest from what I saw of the game I am still not very pleased with the way we are playing.

Oh well.... UTV, we are SURGING up the table!

[Lastfootstamper]

I'm taking full credit for this as, for the first time ever, I voted for us to lose on the pre-match poll.

[brian green]

Have we now got more points than goals or the other way about?

[pauliewalnuts]

Lambert just said "we like to try to pass it".

[PeterWithesShin]

It's mental to think, but if we'd held on against Burnley and Saints like we should have, and got a point from Spurs like we also should have, we'd currently be 7th. Shows how poor the division is these days.

[Deano's Mullet]

16 points, eight goals!

[walsall villain]

I feel like I'm going to wake up soon and find we lost 3-0. Thank fook for that.

Done the opposite. 8 hours ahead where I am, just woke up from a vivid dream that we had lost 2-1 and I had lobbed my phone in anger at full time and broke it, great to see we actually WON and I still have a working phone

[Morten]

I'm relieved and deflated at the same time. I will always want villa to win no matter what, but Benteke has kept Lambert in a job there. Can anyone tell me, what is our game plan? I'm not after hyperbole or lambert bashing I just want to know how are we supposed to be playing. Because for aprox 85mins of that match it was either boot it as far away as you can or keep passing the ball backwards till Guzan gets it and boots it as far as he can. We get deeper and deeper till around the 80th minute when we are camped on the edge of our own box and its backs to the wall, Alamo defending. Palace should have won that but we got lucky.

Exactly. We did not win because we are good, but because Palace did not take their chances. Glad we won, but at the same time not hoping that this will mean Lambert here next season as well. The football is terrible. Again, sitting far too deep second half. We do it game after game after game...

Clark and Hutton were very good. Cissokho exposed in the first half. I think Okore reads the game well and will only improve. His passing is also good. Cleverley and Weimann worked hard, but created nothing. Gabby offered nothing. Benteke´s goal was class. Regarding Westwood, wenn we sit so deep as usual second half, he finds it very hard. That "game plan" suits Sanchez better.

[PaulWinch again]

As nice as it is to finally win unless we massively change our style of play we will be stuck in footballing purgatory for the foreseeable future.

[rob_bridge]

22 points from safety

[Hampshire Villa]

Lambert just said "we like to try to pass it".

 well we do try........we just don't quite manage it! Lambert is surely on Domestos!

[CJ]

Lambert just said "we like to try to pass it".

To be fair he did say we like to try to pass it, not that we actually do pass it 

[saunders_heroes]

Lambert just said "we like to try to pass it".

Ha!

[AlexAlexCropley]

Lambert just said "we like to try to pass it".

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
The deluded cock