As per I will be adding to this as I go along to alleviate the problem of losing posts halfway through after a few sentences.... a problem Mouseman has yet to encounter.
it sure how to take todays result. I thought we started to take control in The first half after the first 5 mins and dominated the half. Well deserved lead and Bamford should have done better when he went one on one. I’m his defence though he hasn’t played much has he in the last 12months. Then they go up the other end and Cooper tried to be clever instead of booting the ball up field. Loses possession and gives away the free kick that they score from.
Then you have Doucoure, he really should have been sent off. The first booking was a very strong yellow, you could have argued for a red but it would have been harsh. But at 1-1 he then goes in rash again for what in my eyes was a yellow card. Sadly we aren’t getting the run of the green with refs at the moment and nothing given.
Had to go out for a birthday meal so missed the second half. Sounds like we were poor though.
Personally if I had a full fit squad to pick from I would be switching Struijk to LCB in place of Cooper. Putting Firpo in at LB. I would also drop Rodrigo for Sinisterra. Obviously with Aaronson playing in the middle. My gripe with Rodrigo is that he does some nice stuff, but seems to mess up the simple little passes. They are over hit, under hit or intercepted. I might be wrong but he seems to lose the ball too often for my liking.
I don’t think we are far off, but we can’t continue like this or panic will set in.
But I would refrain from having Firpo at LB, he's injured again anyway. Agree about Rodrigo, he often seems to make or take the wrong option. Bamford obviously isn't match fit or sharp enough.
Not only with the one on one, before he received a great ball in an excellent position but he totally miscontrolled it.
We slowly lost our grip of the game after the equalizer, JM didn't find an answer. His subs didn't work out, him replacing Aaronson was simply the wrong call. Bamford was replaced by Joffy (too late), but Rodrigo & even Harrison should come off before Aaronson.
In midfield were we lost the battle despite Adams being very good, we had Roca dead on his legs after 45mins. As TC pointed out, why not bring on Gyabi.
Kristensen had a good game against Zaha, but in the second half we as a team allowed him and other Palace players more time and space to run into. Eventually that led to their second goal, with the entire defence looking very flatfooted.
Coops mistake led to the first goal and we simply can't afford those.
JM has some tuff decisions to make;
→ Patrick not match fit and Joffy has not been involved a lot,
but both have looked a bit short on confidence & lack sharpness
→ do we give them time to find their form? and do we have that luxury?
→ Can Perkins & Joseph bring their scoring ability to the Premiership level?
Next time up, we face the Arsenal at ER, apart from City the on form team.
Can't see us getting anything from that game.
Next up Leicester, a team needing points, but likewise with Palace aren't we the most likely of teams to provide them with 3 pts.
Love Hattrick but he just doesn't look right at the moment.... I'd bring Perkins straight in to play there although he won't as he'll be behind Bamford, Geldhart, Rodrigo and Gnonto!
I'd also try Gyabi instead of Roca for a couple of games.... we can't KEEP playing the same names as the results are proving we need to try something different.
That went from having a very good start to a very poor second half.
Shouldn't have got beat by this Palace side.
When we were on top of the game Patrick missed a one on one.
If he scores we would have been 2 up and at that time Palace were all over the place. But the lad just isn't match fit, he showed this with having several poor touches when he was in a good position.
After we conceded from a set-piece, a poor free kick to give away (Coops) to begin with, we slowly got worse.
JM failed to come up with a way to prevent Palace getting the upper hand.
2e half we huffed and puffed without really creating a clear chance, we got into decent position and the effed it up.
Rodrigo worked hard all game but was pretty ineffective.
Felt Roca had a poor game. Thankfully in Adams we had the best player in midfield.
Kristensen did well against Saha, in defence Koch & Pascal both did ok.
Aaronsson caused them problems, but a winger he is not. We need him down the middle.
The substitutions didn't work out either. Would certainly have replaced Roca & Bamford long before he actually did.
It's in these kind of games we need to pick up points, we didn't.
Fkn awful 2nd half and didn't get in their box til the last minute....
Palace are fkn crap and we have to be beating teams like them. We'd have gone 7th with a win but now we're getting dragged into it.
Why wasn't Doucoure sent off in the first half for stamping and scraping his studs on Adams (?) VAR intervened but didn't do anything! I must admit I didn't see it at half time but he was nowhere near the ball and knew exactly what he was doing 🤬🤬🤬🤬
3 fkn points fkn dropped against a crap team and we've dropped points v Soton, Everton, Brighton, Brentwood, Villa and now Palace.... teams we should be BEATING
That's exactly where I am at. We can't hide behind "playing against 12 men" and "timewasting opposition" forever.
We have not been up against the best teams in this league when they are on form yet. If the first half is as good as it gets how do we sustain it for 90 minutes, or do we need something different so we don't run out of steam so spectacularly.
Palace are mid table/lower mid table dwellers and they have better players, a better system and players who know you pass forward and then hit the target....
PS - a good MDT run is over TC10, fair play for hanging in there for over a month.
Can remember him scoring a thunderbolt right footer after juggling it on his thigh etc off the underside of the bar.... hadn't he also scored the worldie right foot volley v Liverpool in the same season off the underside of the bar!?
How did Royal of Spurs get sent off last week but Doucoure didn't!?
He was miles away from the ball and knew exactly what he was doing.... we were 1 up at the time and looked very comfortable.
It even went to fkn VAR!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Unlucky TC
it sure how to take todays result. I thought we started to take control in The first half after the first 5 mins and dominated the half. Well deserved lead and Bamford should have done better when he went one on one. I’m his defence though he hasn’t played much has he in the last 12months. Then they go up the other end and Cooper tried to be clever instead of booting the ball up field. Loses possession and gives away the free kick that they score from.
Then you have Doucoure, he really should have been sent off. The first booking was a very strong yellow, you could have argued for a red but it would have been harsh. But at 1-1 he then goes in rash again for what in my eyes was a yellow card. Sadly we aren’t getting the run of the green with refs at the moment and nothing given.
Had to go out for a birthday meal so missed the second half. Sounds like we were poor though.
Personally if I had a full fit squad to pick from I would be switching Struijk to LCB in place of Cooper. Putting Firpo in at LB. I would also drop Rodrigo for Sinisterra. Obviously with Aaronson playing in the middle. My gripe with Rodrigo is that he does some nice stuff, but seems to mess up the simple little passes. They are over hit, under hit or intercepted. I might be wrong but he seems to lose the ball too often for my liking.
I don’t think we are far off, but we can’t continue like this or panic will set in.
We need to start picking up points soon.
Sinesterra has to come back in for Rodrigo....
Love Hattrick but he just doesn't look right at the moment.... I'd bring Perkins straight in to play there although he won't as he'll be behind Bamford, Geldhart, Rodrigo and Gnonto!
I'd also try Gyabi instead of Roca for a couple of games.... we can't KEEP playing the same names as the results are proving we need to try something different.
FFS Firpo was injured AGAIN for today.... we need to get him and Forshaw off the wage bill as that's probably 60k pw going straight down the drain....
Thought Strujik was good today but not the answer for permanent LB....
Cooper is a awesome leader. He single handedly changed the game. Excellent foul and perfect allowance of his player to head the ball.
That went from having a very good start to a very poor second half.
Shouldn't have got beat by this Palace side.
When we were on top of the game Patrick missed a one on one.
If he scores we would have been 2 up and at that time Palace were all over the place. But the lad just isn't match fit, he showed this with having several poor touches when he was in a good position.
After we conceded from a set-piece, a poor free kick to give away (Coops) to begin with, we slowly got worse.
JM failed to come up with a way to prevent Palace getting the upper hand.
2e half we huffed and puffed without really creating a clear chance, we got into decent position and the effed it up.
Rodrigo worked hard all game but was pretty ineffective.
Felt Roca had a poor game. Thankfully in Adams we had the best player in midfield.
Kristensen did well against Saha, in defence Koch & Pascal both did ok.
Aaronsson caused them problems, but a winger he is not. We need him down the middle.
The substitutions didn't work out either. Would certainly have replaced Roca & Bamford long before he actually did.
It's in these kind of games we need to pick up points, we didn't.
Fkn awful 2nd half and didn't get in their box til the last minute....
Palace are fkn crap and we have to be beating teams like them. We'd have gone 7th with a win but now we're getting dragged into it.
Why wasn't Doucoure sent off in the first half for stamping and scraping his studs on Adams (?) VAR intervened but didn't do anything! I must admit I didn't see it at half time but he was nowhere near the ball and knew exactly what he was doing 🤬🤬🤬🤬
3 fkn points fkn dropped against a crap team and we've dropped points v Soton, Everton, Brighton, Brentwood, Villa and now Palace.... teams we should be BEATING
Now I am worried and unhappy.
Not because we lost, but because we played as well as we have all season in that first half - and still lost.
We have to keep ourselves ahead of the likes of Forest, but Palace level with us now, West Ham ahead of us....
Good luck TC, I’m Going for 2-1 to The Mighty Leeds, with Bamford & Rodrigo the scorers.
Cummmmmmmmonnnnn U Mighty fookin Whites⚽️💥🥊
Rodrigo AND Bamford start
Aarondsen and Harrison wide men, Rodders at 10.
Got up to watch the Grand Prix replay as advertised at 09:30 - only to turn on to a montage of the result and celebrations :-(
as many wise people would say:
SKY TV is f***** S***
9.34 train cancelled, informed of this at 9.10, this country is the pits.
Good luck.leeds win this 2-0
I'm hearing we win 2-1, anyone else heard owt.
Come on Leeds............MOT
Can remember him scoring a thunderbolt right footer after juggling it on his thigh etc off the underside of the bar.... hadn't he also scored the worldie right foot volley v Liverpool in the same season off the underside of the bar!?
What a great first game for the boy to go to! 👏
Yeboah was left footed as well....!!
First game I took my son to was v Wimbledon at Palace. We got the whole Arthur Waite stand.
That's the game Yeboah scored 2 amazing goals. Think we won 2-5
The 1st professional game I saw was palace at home to Blackpool my grandfather took me as Stan Mathews was playing for Blackpool
he didn’t make the team so we came home half time
Zaha has never scored against us I think I read so one for you betting people