Palace v Villa Post Match Hiding Place

[Olneythelonely]

Awful, awful beyond belief. Players will take a lot of criticism but Emery had a nightmare tonight. I presumed seeing the line up that Bogarde was going into midfield. A horrid five at the back that sold out McGinn and Tielemans. Bailey then brought on but at wing back! Asensio and Rashford on for two of our best players on the night! Rogers up top and Malen left on bench. We were a complete rabble and that's solely on Emery.

Martinez 5 - one great save but poor for first, Olsen 5 never looks like saving anything
Garcia 4 - lost in a stupid role, Bailey 4 was decent going forward but lost in no man's land defensively
Disasi 4 - rotten, bullied by Mateta throughout and absolutely is not a RB/RWB
Konsa 1 - d*ckhead, soft as shit as per usual in any contest, rotten attitude needed addressing early on this season. Too late out
Bogarde 2 - horrible night, let down by his manager
Digne 4 - not a LWB, Maatsen came on too late
Tielemans 5 - we got overran in midfield, nice touches
McGinn 4 - tried very hard but didn't have a chance
Rogers 5 - brilliant goal but again lost in position he was picked in
Ramsey 7 - very good and a crazy decision to take him off, that pen shout is given as a foul everywhere else on pitch
Watkins 7 - ridiculous decision to take him off, did great for our goal and the offside one.

Asensio and Rashford hardly had a kick of note between them.

Emery 0

Think you’re being overly positive here

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Emery got the team wrong. We should of gone to selhurts with the loan lads starting and set out our stall to attack from the off. We need goals to pump up the GD. wrong midset done us.

[jon collett]

Some v sensible comments but I think Monchi takes his share of blame.

It was obvious last summer that at the v least we needed a decent centre half, replacement for Douglas Luiz who was integral to our play and a decent back up keeper. Instead we ended up with Maatsen, Onana and all sorts of make weights.

We were set up to fail.

[Clampy]

It may possibly have been a different outcome had the goal stood but we wasn't really good enough in all honesty. One to bounce back from and we will.

[bill]

Ramsey is so overrated . Konsa has been shit for ages and McGinn is on a downward trend. Watkins needs 6 sitters to score one goal. So much talent left on the bench.I could go on but I’ll leave it at that.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'll be  surprised if Konsa is in Tuchel's first squad. he's been out of sorts for a while now.

Tuchel must be even more pissed off than the Villa fans. What a waste of a night, all his English lads were shit.

Couldn't give a monkies what Tuchel thinks tbh.

That makes me feel better. I think.

[Chip Butty 111]

You know it, I know it, even Mrs Baldy knows it, our defence is the problem.

So why do we persist in playing out from the back every fucking game and heaping even more pressure on our defence.

Glasner has Emery’s number for sure. Let us have the ball and wait for us to make a mistake. We sap energy from the game messing about at the back and then get caught time and time again.

The defenders are just not good enough to play it consistently especially away from home.

Even Pep admitted that it doesn't work any more, teams have learned to play against it and counter it. Real played a couple of long balls against City and scored, and did them easily on the transition. We need to up our tempo and get the ball into midfield sooner. How many times have we faffed around at the back and conceded stupid goals.

[Percy McCarthy]

Embarrassing  performance

In my eyes a totally unacceptable  defensive  display

The way we collapse at times is utterly pathetic 3 fucking 1 against palace?

We dont deserve  chanpions league based on league form. Just not good enough

4-1

I was hoping nobody would tell him.

[paul b]

how come no one ever moans about martinez? he pushed ball into players path again when it was in both hands,then when he knows he's fucked up pretends he's injured or ill! 3rd worst save percentage in league! he needs to go with konsa

[Dante Lavelli]

Odd to think we could match their formation and be better at it, given we were playing away and literally had no free time to practice it.
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[Demitri_C]

Ramsey is so overrated . Konsa has been shit for ages and McGinn is on a downward trend. Watkins needs 6 sitters to score one goal. So much talent left on the bench.I could go on but I’ll leave it at that.

I was quite annoyed he played himself offside for the goal. He should not have been offside there.

I like ramsey but man he is frustrating  at times

[DB]

Have we ever won or even put in a good performance with 3 at the back?

[PaulWinch again]

It may possibly have been a different outcome had the goal stood but we wasn't really good enough in all honesty. One to bounce back from and we will.

Possibly yeah, but on the basis that we did equalise and then proceeded to put in a performance that was Man Utd bad I suspect it wouldn’t have been. It was all wrong tonight, exceptionally so, but our continued concession of so many poor goals even when we play better is what is absolutely killing us.

[Percy McCarthy]

A horrible one, had no luck and had our arse handed to us on a plate big style. Our defense has been a liability for ages, and here we are 3/4 through the season with a worse goal difference Everton. That's 9 for Olsen in 2 appearances at that place..

8 in 2. Which is his average, 4.

[Beard82]

1 win in 6

4 points against Liverpool + Chelsea
1 point against Palace and Ipswich

Did ok on the hard part, fucked the easy part.  Needed 9 points from that run and should have got it