I dont think the problem is dropping points, its the manor of it. We played pretty well until we scored, then seemed to sit back, invite them on, offer nothing ourselves until they equalised, thereafter we dominated again. A bit more intent and that was 3 points for the taking. Credit to Palace who did well but i feel those dropped points are on us being passive for 50 mins
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Match Crystal Palace v. Tottenham Hotspur - Sunday, December 13, 2:15 PM GMT
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Poor performance in the second half.
We all knew it would be a test to transition our counter attack style against teams that sit back and today was further evidence that we need to have a better plan B in place.
On another day Ndombele scores and we see out the game but equally Eze or Benteke could have scored for them before the equaliser went in.
Palace are a well organised team with good pace and quality wide and a big target man to feed off. They have beaten United at Old Trafford and I fancy they will take more points off the top teams.
Preserving our unbeaten run and leaving with something was important and if Fulham hold out it's been a decent weekend.
We cannot win every game so if we can leave Anfield with a positive result we've done very well in this tough period.
I still think Ndombele deeper has to be tried against lesser teams. Sure we risk losing the game but draws will cost us over a season. That being said, Jose will be looking at the bigger picture and in the grand scheme of things this is not a bad point to pick up.
We all knew it would be a test to transition our counter attack style against teams that sit back and today was further evidence that we need to have a better plan B in place.
On another day Ndombele scores and we see out the game but equally Eze or Benteke could have scored for them before the equaliser went in.
Palace are a well organised team with good pace and quality wide and a big target man to feed off. They have beaten United at Old Trafford and I fancy they will take more points off the top teams.
Preserving our unbeaten run and leaving with something was important and if Fulham hold out it's been a decent weekend.
We cannot win every game so if we can leave Anfield with a positive result we've done very well in this tough period.
I still think Ndombele deeper has to be tried against lesser teams. Sure we risk losing the game but draws will cost us over a season. That being said, Jose will be looking at the bigger picture and in the grand scheme of things this is not a bad point to pick up.
No, you got ridiculed for calling him "limited".
Son can and has created goals for himself and assisted others plenty of times.... You want him to be a freak that plays at least 9/10 every game... That's not being limited, that's called not being peak Messi.
You have no idea what he trains.
Also 4 deflected goals for Villa, that doesn't happen every day.
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Should I be a cunt and say that this suggests the team was playing with Liverpool on their minds?
Exactly.
People are saying here, and after the Burnely and WBA games, that teams will always have poor games and to get points out them is key. Which is true but the problem with those games and today is that we didn't play bad because we had an off game we played bad because of the poor tactics.
If we keep having poor performances because of the tactics when we drop points because we have an off day then those points will really hurt.
There are always going to be days where you don't have it, what you shouldn't do is create a day when you don't have it by your shit tactics.
I’m not sure what I’m doing here but during halftime I was irritated knowing Mou would make his usual sub in the 65 min and I wanted Lo Celso at the start of the second. I felt we could not sit on 1 goal seeing how they were upping their game while we remained ball watching missing simple passes.
Mou disappointed big time tonight, he failed to visualize how the game momentum is shifting and expected to somehow get out of it, but not every time it will work.
Poor management tonight Jose. Hopefully he makes up for it with another Mou classic against Liverpool. That second goal was essential but we bottled it
But you spent your time here since the last game telling us he was shit and we are all dumb for thinking otherwise.....
Why do I get the feeling that if Gio had come on before the equaliser you'd have blamed him (the guy you insisted doesn't challenge and lacks work-rate) for making us soft?
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One problem with the way we play is that Toby is quite small for a CB who's expected to constantly contend aerial duels with some of the beasts in the PL.
Calvert Lewin absolutely towered over him, and again he was not enough of a presence against the massive players Palace sent into our box.
Even Dier was struggling with the sheer mass of people in the box.
Calvert Lewin absolutely towered over him, and again he was not enough of a presence against the massive players Palace sent into our box.
Even Dier was struggling with the sheer mass of people in the box.
Wonder if skrinier is gettable in jan
We need Gareth to take free kicks maybe corners. What did we get him for?
Nope.... It does't work like that. It's a footballing contest not a proverb competition.
Trying to think who of the usual cunts have been posting less of late..... Him & Iggy Pops certainly put the yards in.
Besides fulham should be 5 up against loserpool. No games easy
Benteke should have been carded right then and there!