Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Since Feb only Liverpool and Man City have won more points than Palace.

[Lastfootstamper]

Is that "just" PL? We won a fair few.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yep.

[Risso]

On the corners thing, one thing I noticed about Jota is that he's not very strong, nor very streetwise.  When he was surrounded near the corner v Everton a few times, he either needed to barge past or whack it off an Evertonian shin and out for a corner.  On at least 3 occasions I reckon he did neither.

[adrenachrome]

Palace are set up to counter-attack, even at home. 4-3-3 is not the best way to approach this unless you are Chelsea or Citeh.

Alan Hansen voice: "2 banks of 4, no way through".

I am in in 4-2-3-1 camp in these situations.  Then again, I am getting on in years.

[Sexual Ealing]

Palace are set up to counter-attack, even at home. 4-3-3 is not the best way to approach this unless you are Chelsea or Citeh.

Alan Hansen voice: "2 banks of 4, no way through".

I am in in 4-2-3-1 camp in these situations.  Then again, I am getting on in years.

I'm an extremely youthful 41 and I agree.

[paul_e]

I agree as well, I think away from home we could benefit from having Jack play as one of the wide players and bring Nakamba, Hourihane or even Konsa/Engels into the midfield alongside Luiz.

Long term I think Smith wants to do that more often but you really need Targett and Guilbert settled into the team for it to work because they take a lot of the responsibility to stop us getting too narrow.

[Mister E]

I am in in 4-2-3-1 camp in these situations.  Then again, I am getting on in years.

I'll buy that, too.

[ChicagoLion]

While we were literally robbed, I think it would have been metaphorical daylight robbery if we'd got anything out of that game, we were clearly second best. I think that was our first proper effort on goal all game.

We weren’t literally robbed, applying the definition in s.8 Theft Act 1968.

We weren’t literally anything.
Why has this Americanism kept onto this site quite literally 

[Ads]

Nope, correct usage, literally has two definitions now in the OED.

English language evolves, it's why we have new fangled words like autumn instead of fall.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not happy with the new definition of literally. I'm happy with the language evolving but we shouldn't just allow idiots like Charlie Nicholas to decide the direction of travel. I don't particularly think of misuse of "literally" as an Americanism, mind. That said, they do confuse me when they say "I could care less" when they mean the opposite.

[KevinGage]

Darren Bent is literally on fire, according to Jamie Redknapp.

Rosie the dog is literally the brains of the operation in the Redknapp family.

[themossman]

I thought this was a joke but incredibly it’s true. God that makes me angry.

[Ads]

I never joke about definitions.

[themossman]

So literally is the new nonplussed, meaning two opposite things just because Americans couldn’t get their heads around it.