Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post Debacle Thread

[Cropley10]

The problem is that we have NO midfield!
The defence is under constant pressure and Konsa particularly, is finished as a top flight player (what happened to him??) Matty Cash had no one ahead of him with Leon pushed wide right up front: Ramsey let the game pass him by wandering around on the left and Kamara and McGinn were bullied by the Palace midfield.
3 in midfield needs 5 at the back must never be tried again by Gerrard!!
The forwards were just given punted balls forward all day.
VERY poor and I can't see where SG is going with this formation --(apart from the dole queue!)

[Goldie.7]

Everyone out
I am sick of being crap
No plan, no structure
Defence clueless , most lightweight, pussy midfield in league no presence up front
some fucking long haired twat as set ball specialist, did I imagine that cringeworthy attempt at a free kick towards the end ?
As for the manager, I have come off the fence, get rid.

Thanks for the laugh, much needed!

Nothing ever changes with us. We're stuck in a revolving loop of sadness. I've accepted it, so it doesn't hurt as much these days.

[eamonn]

Isn't Danks a secret-agent anyway like Ridgewell in reverse?

[Goldie.7]

Konsa 5 - dreadful first half but thought he was much better in the second, saving our bacon on a few occasions.

Does their third goal not count? What is Konsa doing by the throw-in line?

[Cropley10]

That freekick at the end FFS!... 'Taxi for Wakeman?'

[Toronto Villa]

Steven Gerrard: "The players need to pull together to find this consistency. The big moments went against us today. [Digne handball] was harsh, I'm not sure what else he could have done. I've got full confidence with this group."

No Steven. We were completely outplayed. Our goal aside the big, small and in between moments went against us. What the fuck were you watching?

[pauliewalnuts]

Throwing them under the bus again, that's not good.

How about taking some responsibility yourself?

[Pete3206]

Game 'was in the balance' according to Sherwood 2.0

[Toronto Villa]

Game 'was in the balance' according to Sherwood 2.0

He doesn’t have a fucking clue if he thinks that. Unless he was referring to when the two sides were lined up in the tunnel.

[Cropley10]

Complete shit show. Basics of football, or any team sport, is that firstly you have to be able to physically compete. We aren't, we are getting bullied in nearly every area of the pitch. Other fundementals like team spirit are also sadly lacking, watch Ramsey's effort to track Hughes for that chance at the end as just one example. I think it all stems from tactical confusion really and a manager completely out of his depth.
Martinez 6 - couple of smart saves but very poor distribution at times and strangely stuck to his goal line throughout. Including the last goal.
Cash 4 - destroyed by an on fire Zaha. Got into loads of promising positions but Buendia chance aside made a mess of most of them.
Konsa 5 - dreadful first half but thought he was much better in the second, saving our bacon on a few occasions.
Mings 6 - the reverse of Konsa. But they got zero support from non existent full backs and midfield
Digne 2 - bullied by Jordan Ayew! Soft as shite and a dreadful signing.
Kamara 3 - complete passenger
Ramsey 3 - see above
McGinn 3 - see above, ref bottled giving him a deserved second yellow too
Bailey 5 - brilliant assist and shot but far too often he didn't protect the ball well enough, lost in this formation anyway
Watkins 5 - started well and an early goal. Then his shins turned into timber again and couldn't hold anything up. That was a sitter he missed at the end too.
Buendia 7 - excellent first half. Missed a big chance. Quieter after the break but ridiculous decision to hook him for Gerrard's mate.

Luiz was decent when he came on, despite not looking particularly fit. Other two hardly had a kick.

  Konsa spent most of the game running back towards our goal chasing a Palace player!  3 is being very generous.

[villadelph]

Throwing them under the bus again, that's not good.

How about taking some responsibility yourself?

Unbelievable.

This man hasn’t a clue how to manage. The fans are wavering, would you like the dressing to do the same, Steven?

[Axl Rose]

All players score 0/10

Didn't see anything warranting a positive score.

[SamTheMouse]

As is now customary, a lively start followed by a linear decline in quality, culminating in the sort of mind-bendingly bad football that would have a Sunday league team take a day off work on Monday for extra training.

I surmise NSWE's conversation with Gerrard this evening will be NSFW.

[PeterWithesShin]

I would say that things could have been very different if we score rather than nearly break the crossbar. But at the same time, that doesn't alter how poor we were for most of the game.

[Clampy]

First half, other than totally switching off for the goal straight after we scored, not too bad really. Bailey's pace caused a few problems and Digne was unluckly not to put us 2 up. Their offside looked iffy though.

Second half,  after the ludricous penalty we fell apart. It needs to be better.