Two points at home to Bournemouth and palace doesnt scream like a team thats going to be getting top 6 this season.
Quote from: Demitri_C on November 23, 2024, 05:09:16 PMTwo points at home to Bournemouth and palace doesnt scream like a team thats going to be getting top 6 this season.Last season two points at home against Sheff United and Brentford. Did that not scream like a top 4 team?
As long as we keep being easy to score against, we'll struggle to get results.The first goal is 1 pass to find space behind Barkely and another to feed their player through. The 2nd is a copy of the Liverpool goal and an awful one to concede.You need to take chances. Palace are 18th, 1 win all season, they're dross and in the relegation zone for a reason. But if you make it easy for sides with gifts or predicatable patterns of play, you'll struggle to get a result. You cannot gift a penalty opportunity. Lots of factors. Form is one. Bailey is not contributing anything at all. No goals, no assists, worse, little to no percentage ball as he refuses to cross with his right. He's very easy to funnel and check back to allow them into a better defensive shape.Tielemans without the physical protection today looked off and his form has followed suit. Delayed the pass, not that there was much movement. Rogers. He's still way off it. His first touch has abandoned him. That air shot early on perhaps symptomatic. But then that's the other issue. The system is designed to go through him. We're so slow in feeding the ball or in transition in general of late, that he's easy to smother. If it's not going through him, we look clueless.The last 6 minutes of injury time today, we created nothing. In fact we didn't even get in their box. We barely made Henderson do anything from open play. Atrocious performance, meanwhile they had a shot and a cross.It's just not been good enough of late and the defence, which I'll save for last, doesn't get off. Carlos was due to be sold for a reason. He is nowhere near the quality we need. Konsa, obviously injured today, but needs to play at centre half. He is our best defender. I cannot fathom Bogarde beyond Cash not being fit- I can accept that. No Emery side ever defends well, but this is going to cost us if it continues. We need, for me, a pivot of Onana and critically, Kamara. I think Rogers needs to go wide and Bailey needs to be out the side, with a replacement in January. That is not Philogene, who has not contributed anything attack wise all season.I'm not sure if I read it on here or heard it elsewhere, but somebody said the Villa never break a losing run with a win. I remembered that before the game and it definitely came to mind when the first went in.We need better. Much better.
We need Kamara back. That's the issue.Barkley is looking good.Pissed off with that result but we're 3 points from 3rd and 4 from 2nd. No need to panic.
Konsa, Mings, Torres, Digne When Konsa’s back that should be the four for me
Quote from: JJ-AV on November 23, 2024, 07:16:05 PMKonsa, Mings, Torres, Digne When Konsa’s back that should be the four for me If we don’t stop teams just running through the midfield it doesn’t matter who’s back there. We are so bloody easy to play against.
The last set of subs killed our monentum. Rogers, who I agree was mostly terrible, had started coming into it. Bailey had been pretty decent second half. Buendia got in the way. Philogene offers nothing, as others have said.
We’re definitely not being helped by Philogene and Buendia offering absolutely nothing at all.
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