Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[cdbearsfan]

There is no such thing as "a good point" when you are trying to win the league and the team at the top never drop any.

[Nunkin1965]

Good point in one of our toughest fixtures.

Agree.
Don't care how many players they had missing.
We don't get results against Palace so I'm happy with a point.

[PeterWithesShin]

There is no such thing as "a good point" when you are trying to win the league and the team at the top never drop any.

If they never drop points then winning tonight wouldn't help us.

[Beard82]

I wonder if we can pull off a couple masterstrokes like last season in the Jan window - amazing loans or similar.

Interesting in Unai's reaction - hes in the title race despite his refusal to admit it. 

[john e]

Should have gone for it more for me,
they were there for the taking but we were to busy walking around at the back with it and slowing it down
we are far better than them quality wise but didn’t show it

Opportunity missed

[Brazilian Villain]

It shows how much we've progressed when we're disappointed with an away point at Palace and a clean sheet. Decent point.

[ldavfc4eva]

Good point IMO, just helps keep the gap between us and the chasing pack

Draw away and win at home and we won’t be far away

Still don’t rate Sancho, he did track back in all fairness but I don’t see what he offers

[Chip Butty 111]

Arsenal had a great night, hopefully they draw tomorrow. If they win they are 8 points clear ffs.

[olaftab]

There is no such thing as "a good point" when you are trying to win the league and the team at the top never drop any.

If they never drop points then winning tonight wouldn't help us.

It's not clever...being logical.

[Beard82]

We got better results than Man City, and better than Chelsea. 

Arsenal will have a wobble - at the moment its all about points on the board - and thats one more.

Onwards!

[waynejames]

We are doing well.....i'll tell you that (Charlie Chuck reference sorry couldn't help myself)
Palace were never going to roll over and have their bellies tickled. They know how we play and delt with it the best they could.
They got a draw at home

[aldridgeboy]

Didn’t see a single kick or update until just as I was working.
We can’t win every game , as much as we’d like to.
Decent point,  result wise as it’s “them”

[Clampy]

It’s weird.
We have been discussing on here all week how we need to lose the small team mentality. How we need to believe that this team can achieve something.

But now it seems we should be happy with a draw against their B team.

That’s a massive opportunity lost and we should be thoroughly disappointed that we didn’t step up (again) against these fuckers.

We're going to have games like this, it's just the way it is. I'm not jumping up and down at the result but I'm not thoroughly disappointed either. After the run we've had, no-one should be.

[eamonn]

Let’s not forget they also had about 17 players missing and we still couldn’t take advantage.

Their core were all playing as was their new (record?) star signing. They're a good team, I don't know why you're so bent out of shape about it. We rarely don't win, rarely draw and we controlled much of the game away to a bogey team. Not too shabby.

[Goldie.7]

Decent point. Don't forget we've lost the last 5 of the previous 6 matches against this lot. We've also lost 6 of the 7 previous matches at Selhurst since promotion. Something is better than nothing...

If Hughes wasn't absolutely everywhere tonight I think we would have just nicked it but honestly I thought he was the best player on the pitch.