Palace v Villa Post Match Hiding Place

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh and a nice seven goal swing for Chelsea tonight.

[FatSam]

Compare defences.
Palace had a set of players who relished defending. Attacking every ball.
Trying to be first to everything. Being aggressive and dominant.

I wasn’t able to watch the game, and I’m not arguing with your general point, but another difference is that Mitchell, Guehi, Munoz and Lacroix have all started 23+ league games out of a possible 27 this season. Richards has only started 13, presumably mostly since Chalobah was recalled by Chelsea.

For us Konsa and Digne have started 23 games out of a possible 28. Beyond that it’s Torres on 18, Cash on 16, Carlos on 8, Mings on 7, Maatsen and Bogarde on 4, and Garcia on 3. Kamara has obviously played in defence too.

[VillaTim]

The only word I can come up with is embarrassing.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

The only word I can come up with is embarrassing.

Cack is another.

[Brazilian Villain]

The only word I can come up with is embarrassing.

Win on Friday and it'll be honorificabilitudinitatibus.

[Percy McCarthy]

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.

According to accepted Villa wisdom, Emery tells him what profile of player he wants and he brings him a list.

[Percy McCarthy]

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

I hope he’s pretending. What did he go off with? I thought it might be a nervous breakdown playing behind that lot.

[Percy McCarthy]

Rashford must be starting to think, 'why am I not starting games'.

Or ‘am I back at Man Utd’?

[Percy McCarthy]

We've conceded 4, 2, 2, 0, 3, 2, 3, 2 ,4 and 1 in our last 10 away games. 22 goals conceded in 10 games.

23 but I get your point. Our away form is unacceptable and yet we hardly concede in the CL. Bizarre.

Interesting…

[AV82EC]

I was fortunately out tonight at a gig so haven’t seen 1 minute of it. I may brave the highlights in the morning but after reading this I think I may give it a miss.

[Percy McCarthy]

Olsen was fucking awful. He needs to anticipate the shots for the goals better.

Olsen is shit.

Why hasn't that been addressed?

Olsen is and always has been a hologram. His positioning and footwork is some of the worst I've seen from a keeper, he's always caught flat footed or his weight going away. Another defensive mishap in planning by having him still haunting the bench as our back up. The ghost of 4-0's past. A Monchi signing, stupid enough to sign him twice.

Really? I know he’s supposed to have signed him for Roma but he didn’t sign him for us.

[SoccerHQ]

Horrible team selection.
Horrible performance
Horrible result
Horrible venue.

Rinse and repeat each year at Selhurst.

[Pat McMahon]

Even living in London that is a shit place to get to, and going there is synonymous with a pathetic performance.

Nobody played well tonight though Watkins, Ramsey and Rogers showed occasional glimpses, but far too little to give us any dominance.

A shit formation and set up, but we actually created a foothold in the game. Until their first shot….I haven’t watched any highlights since I got home but defensively we were awful and our midfield looked sluggish. They seemed to have a plan for McGinn with a rotation of 6-7 fouls on him, meaning he created little.

None of the subs made the remotest impact and Rogers at centre forward was weird.

A shit night for the manager, players and fans.

[Pat McMahon]

Oh and at half time Palace tried to do a penalty competition with some young fans and their fluffy eagle mascot. Olsen was having none of it as he was warming up in the goal in front of us so their announcer got into a huff and dragged everybody off to the other end to do it.

[adrenachrome]

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