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Author Topic: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread  (Read 29976 times)

Online spangley1812

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Re: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #240 on: August 23, 2015, 07:37:15 PM »
Personally I blame Guzan more than Amavi...the ball should have been sent long but he made the decision to put one of our defenders under unnecessary pressure with just a few minutes to go. Amavi should have put his foot through it but it was a bad decision by Guzan in the first place.

With regards to Amavi, he looked dead on his feet when he completely lost his marker towards the end of the game. The overall fitness and stamina of this team is still not there yet, but coincidentally is just another reason why Guzan should have cleared long.

I agree with about 7/8 minutes left (including injury time) away from home and we have a point the last thing we need to be doing is looking to play "total football". Guzan should have held the ball, bounced it 4/5 times and wasted as much time as he could before booting it down field

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Re: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #241 on: August 23, 2015, 09:03:52 PM »
Bugger.

Not yet in the despair bowl though. We lost but narrowly. A couple more straight losses and I will be diving straight in though :)

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Re: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #242 on: August 24, 2015, 10:26:50 AM »
First time I have seen us live for a while so any observations are based soley on the one game.

Guzan - I come over all unecessay whenever the ball is at his feet. For their second goal there seemed to be a complete lack of tactical nous.  If Bunn plays against Notts County and does OK I susect he might be playing against Sunderland.

Bacuna & Amavi - The latter had a steady first half, Bacuna is simply not a right back.  Both might be better suited to a back three and they operate  as wing backs.

Richards & Clark - could develop into a useful partnership.

Midfield - steady but nothing special lacking in creativity.

Grealish - clearly a player in there but would be far more effective if he had some movement up front.

Gabby & Gestade - no and not to start with.  I was a big fan of Gabby in the past but thought he was awful, should have taken the chance in the first half.  Getsade is an impact sub at best, Dann and Delaney are good solid centre backs and I thought handled him pretty easy.  To just lump hopeful balls up to him is not very productive. 

Traore - bloody hell!  Just gve him the ball.

Surprised we didn't see Sinclair or Awaye come off the bench for the front two.

Offline levico

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Re: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #243 on: August 25, 2015, 09:45:27 AM »
After a few days to reflect I'm not too down about this defeat. If Guzan and Amavi had made better decisions before the second Palace goal (and hopefully t hey have learnt from this)' then we would be celebrating a well earned draw away to a tricky side.

If we are still throwing away games in October in a similar fashion I will be less forgiving.

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Re: Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #244 on: August 25, 2015, 04:18:41 PM »
Well my palace supporting season ticket father in law came to see me .

He said palace were lucky and villa were so much better . We robbed that game.

We all see things differently .

He said amavi was class and gabby was useless.
« Last Edit: August 25, 2015, 04:20:16 PM by JUAN PABLO »

 


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