God, it didn't take long for Mr doom and gloom to arrive. I expect we will replace Senesi if he gets suspended with Chris Mepham. Ever thought of that.
Agree. As I mentioned in the match day thread, IMO he actually prepared his side very well to try to neutralise us.
Yes. The booing at half-time made me think "What the heck were they expecting ?". It seemed clear that they seemed to think that this was going to be a nailed on easy home win for them.
Must admit I did this for our 2nd last night. Was sure Tavernier was offside when first played through.
who knows mate. We may have shared a kiss/grope or two at Dean Court over the past few decades Correct. I was totally wrong in this case and I have to say that I am extremely pleased that I was proved wrong.God, it didn't take long for Mr doom and gloom to arrive. I expect we will replace Senesi if he gets suspended with Chris Mepham. Ever thought of that.
Anyway, back to last night, how did your predictions of no Kerkez and a flu ravaged squad go ? It was quite noticeable how much more tired we were than Palace as well, and they certainly made home advantage count.
Good for AI to know though that we will still fight if we can’t impose our game plan. Plus he knows he has quality on the bench to change games - 3 subs combined for the decisive 2nd goal.Agree with this and I think Iraola, with his 'efficient' comment, was trying hard to not say we weren't very good in the second half... Mind you, he did say "we weren't brilliant"..
The first half, however, was a good display but you knew Palace would come out a better side after half time...But our 'efficient' display nullified them and it became a very flat affair for large parts, which suited us being 0-1 up...
A great result but we do really need to start being more clinical and stop putting us fans through it at just 1-0
Should be a decent game up in Manchester at the weekend.
Good. It’s when he predicts us to win that we should worry
I think Palace were quite successful 2nd half in reading / blocking off Lewis Cook’s passing options. Which l suppose with such a long-time midfield partner on the opposition you might expectOne stat that jumped out last night was that we'd made significantly fewer passes than Palace. Our pass completion % was even less than theirs -73% which is relatively poor:
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I think alot of this is because we are trying to make more technical, positive game changing passes, which are inherently higher risk. Despite the stats above (Palace also made and won more tackles) we were easily the more threatening of the 2 teams.
I suspect the main difference now is we're being more efficient with the ball, and pressing hard to force our opponents back without the ball.
The low block was good last night too.
I actually thought Lerma looked a lot sharper last night than he had done for a long time down here... Maybe a different role with Palace
Unfortunately Brooks is a bit of a flair player. He’s never been high energy. He has the creative side to his game but tracking back and pressing are not really his bag.
