Palace (a) post match thread

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for me it's a simple question to assess our performances - would you have any of the Palace players on our team? Forget about whether we've bought the best players available to us - is the 11 we put out worse than the 11 we're facing.

For me that answer is no - not a single one. Even with Balotelli and Sturridge injured, man for man we are a better team than Palace.

So it's down to tactics and motivation. And that's down to the manager.

Dwight Gayle.....to stop the ****er scoring against us every time he plays

[Carras_Shin_Pads]

I don't see anything wrong in what Rodgers has said there.

Me neither!

Rafa would struggle with this squad, we havent got a single defender capable of defending

I think it's a bit short sighted and wishful thinking to want Rafa back

Isn't Rodgers responsible for having a young inexperience squad? Poor excuse

We wanted young, so did Fenway, it would of continued to work well if Suarez would of stayed and we could of fed them in gradually

[Shaggy]

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never would have guessed that. Sterling was hardly involved in the game at all and Johnson was hardly providing an outlet down the flank

[Norbs]

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A bit **** stirring that. Dwight Gayle was the only Palace player who made 'more than 60 sprints'. That's one each side IMO, and they're a counter attacking side so ought to be sprinting a lot.

[Lecter]

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This says everything for me

Players are not working hard enough

There needs to be more pressure on the ball and more energy and sadly I feel its the change of tactics that has stymied those

[Pablo]

A bit **** stirring that. Dwight Gayle was the only Palace player who made 'more than 60 sprints'. That's one each side IMO, and they're a counter attacking side so ought to be sprinting a lot.

Exactly, they were chasing us down while we had all the possession. Most of those Gayle sprints would have been chasing down our back 4 (who we passed it around for the entire 90 mins )

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[Pablo]

Impressive stats (although his overall performance was hardly outstanding IMO). I remember that missed pass as well, properly shanked it

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Allen made 48 out of 49 and gerrard 54 out of 68 with 10 out of 19 into the attacking third and one pass leading to a shot

[ronanm]

Lallana is good enough but not the level required. Too slow. That £25m would have been better spent elsewhere.

[Kenneth]

Me neither!



I think it's a bit short sighted and wishful thinking to want Rafa back



We wanted young, so did Fenway, it would of continued to work well if Suarez would of stayed and we could of fed them in gradually

Who's we? I wanted proven quality even if it meant fewer arrivals.

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So did the manager, he said exactly that before we did the opposite.

[alonso14]

Allen made 48 out of 49 and gerrard 54 out of 68 with 10 out of 19 into the attacking third and one pass leading to a shot

pass completion rate is one of the biggest red herrings of our time. completely masks the purpose and intent by which a team goes about its business.

[Lecter]

pass completion rate is one of the biggest red herrings ofour time. completely masks the purpose and intent by which a team goes about its business.

Agreed I hate those stats that are meaningless without context

Its like when Brendan (in his first season) use to drone on about the amount of possession we had

I remember Jimmy Case saying that possession was useless if you do nothing with it