Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Oh and Trez, both yellows were deserved and that second challenge was plain stupid to make when on a yellow.

[Davkaus]

The ref blowing the whistle is a cover-up. He doesn't blow the whistle, unless he's running with it in his mouth.

What are you suggesting happened? Someone whistled in the crowd and he just went along with it? It was somehow edited in to live streams?

From the angles shown on MOTD and as Lineker pointed out, Friend doesn’t reach for his whistle and it would be physically impossible for him to have whilstled after Jack released the ball and Lansbury but the ball in the net. There is a whistle sound on the replay but doesn’t look like it was Friend that made it.

Both angles cut away from the referee, so while you can't see him lift the whistle, that's because he's not in frame.

[ktvillan]

We didn't deserve a point but we should have had one, i'm not sure many would disagree with that.

Exaccerly PWS.  Not deserving it doesn't mean we weren't still robbed.

[cdward]

Ok, I'm gonna say it, if Jack doesn't stick out his left leg, then we get the goal. It reminds me of how Ashley Young dives.
He/we will learn from this.
Kevin Friend is still a c**t though.
UTV

[David_Nab]

We have some good footballers in midfield.
But we lack ‘power’ in there.
That’s the only word I can come up with to describe what I think is missing.


Oh, and trezeguet was a tosser today.  He really needs to have a word with himself and cut out the diving for a start.

Was the same as game wore on against Spurs and we struggled against Bournmouth untill they took Billing off.We don't have physicality in the middle of the park  we also don't really have any one with a quick turn of pace either other than Guilbert who didn't have much opportunity to get forward today.

[Ads]

I've just got back to the north west after a brief sojourn in Brum.

I'm fucking gutted. And angry. And it's over 2 weeks to flush it from the system.

[KRS]

Ok, I'm gonna say it, if Jack doesn't stick out his left leg, then we get the goal. It reminds me of how Ashley Young dives.
He/we will learn from this.
Kevin Friend is still a c**t though.
UTV

I don’t see what you’re seeing? 🤔 Jack is pushed from behind so he’s already unbalanced, Cahill comes across to block his path so there is further contact, and Jack still manages to lay off the ball whilst being unbalanced. If he’d somehow managed to stay on his feet then he may have injured himself trying to plant his right foot at such an angle. That’s only one person to blame for this and that utter ****** is Friend.

[PeterWithesShin]

His leg goes out but for me it's because he's playing the pass, if I thought he'd dived i'd be the first to call him out on it.

https://twitter.com/Lucky13Pierre/status/1167945838561087491

[Ads]

Cahill confirms contact and implies guilt.

[KevinGage]

One small consolation is any pish refereeing performance in future will be known as having a Kevin Friend.

World class ineptitude.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

K Friend has always been, is and will always be a w-nker. Whoever said prem refs are better than championship refs need to re-evaluate and think back 3+ years, because I remember them as sh-t back then and nothings changed.
That said I'm disappointed in the naivity of a so called international player who gets himself sent off on the basis of 2 yellows. Going down to 10 men initially cost the team today. With Hourihane dropped no player has stepped up to deliver dead balls effectively. This needs to be addressed which may mean dropping one of the wingers. There's a lot of work to do not least on the training ground but I'm hopeful that things will improve for us.
Oh by the way f-ck off K Friend you useless
pr-ck!
As for VAR, what is the f-cking point of it?

[Scott Nielsen]

We have some good footballers in midfield.
But we lack ‘power’ in there.
That’s the only word I can come up with to describe what I think is missing.


Oh, and trezeguet was a tosser today.  He really needs to have a word with himself and cut out the diving for a start.

Physicality?

Absolutely. We look tiny in midfield.

[Toronto Villa]

We have some good footballers in midfield.
But we lack ‘power’ in there.
That’s the only word I can come up with to describe what I think is missing.


Oh, and trezeguet was a tosser today.  He really needs to have a word with himself and cut out the diving for a start.

Physicality?

Absolutely. We look tiny in midfield.

Barcelona’s midfield of Xavi, Inesta, Busquets with Messi out wide weren’t exactly giants. Size has little to with it. It’s always talented players used correctly.

[Jon Crofts]

May have been posted already so apologies.
Worth noting that Kevin Friend was the 4th official in the 2018 Play Off Final stood yards from where Fredericks stamped on Grealish.

[geolex]

i think its worth noting that jack looks to see where ball has gone and immediately starts to get up...hardly the actions of someone diving to win a penalty...IMO