Crystal Palace MDT....

More like we've been dropped because Jesse isnt with us anymore, league position is just an excuse in my book

Something clearly upset the team as I've never seen such a contrast in halves.

What didn't happen was that our coach didn't get a grip, and bang heads together. Could he be another Jesse? We have to hope not as we are running out of time. The good 90 mins against Forest was wiped out yesterday.

While that could explain a lot, it sounds like a conspiracy theory - hope there’s nothing to it, and that Gracia and the players as a united group can analyze the game in order to never let what happened on the field, yesterday, repeat again.

We should see a decent number of changes. A guy mentioned that traffic cones defend better than some of our players did. He was not wrong.

What an incredible implosion from our side!

It won't be easy coming back from this, certainly not against a Pool side with pace to burn and with Salah looking for another brace or hattrick against us.

Like you say, stop conceding silly free-kicks & start coping with set-pieces would be a start (how long have we been saying exactly that).

Ayling's confidence in terms of defending is shot and he should have been replaced several games ago. There was nobody who commanded the back four. Meslier looked uncertain & apprehensive and in part at fault for the equalizer.

In midfield our legs seemed to go missing and we became more & more pedestrian. We totally imploded in the second half, but the signs were already there after 30odd mins. Sinesterra was a virtual passenger. Aaronson as per usual ineffective (bar 1 decent attempt).

Makes me wonder why Rodrigo (our top scorer) can't even get to start a game. Can only hope that like Bamford said, everything that could go wrong did go wrong in this one game... However the omens don't look good.

Very good analysis, that, Belgian. Also Smurf‘s remark on us missing Tyler and Wober/Cooper’s leaderships is spot on. Graham Smyth’s verdict this morning is the most positive one can hope for, the day after:

“Leeds, though, are not in the drop zone and have a two-point cushion as well as eight games left. Even if the themes of this defeat were familiar - the missed chances and the set-piece defending - the scale of it can still be chalked off as an aberration. Just about anyone can beat just about anyone soundly in this division, after all. It can serve as a painful reminder that Leeds are not out of the woods just yet, keeping everyone on their toes and at their best. It can and should provoke a response, both in performance levels and Gracia's team selection. It can be a mistake from which Leeds learn, one that informs the story of the rest of this season in a positive way, one that does not factor when the accounts are explained next year. What it cannot be is fatal.”

Can't disagree with you Glory, we allowed their players that much room & space. To make things worse, this was against a fairly mediocre Palace team (minus their best player), just imagine what better teams (Pool) could/will do to us.

The lack of pace of our defence, will come to back to haunt us time & again. In that sense Rasmus is most certainly not a solution.

Truth be said the midfield of Roca, McKennie failed to provide any cover.

We totally lost our heads, discipline & shape.

It‘s less about lack of pace but rather lack of leadership and dicipline. Koch can’t organise the defence, that’s been proved time and time again - he needs a Cooper or Wober alongside him. Struijk was positionally all over the place and Ayling who the team needed to rely on as the senior player looked mentally broken. When Cooper, Wober and Adams are all missing, it really shows.

Very strange how things just fell apart. From being on the front foot and first to the ball we became second to just about everything.

For the record I don't rate this Palace team at all.

This 5-1 home defeat says it all really.

One of the worst LUFC halves I can remember. Wow, just wow. Shows how bad Forest were, too. Some work to be done by Gracia now. MOT

It's a pity that the state of affairs is not down or can be blamed on just one man/player. For example who gave away those silly free kicks to start with.

Yep Ayling has been VERY poor over the last games. But we were virtually unbothered by this Palace side and after scoring they've just wiped the floor with us. Our midfield just vanished.

To be honest and frank I can't see us escape relegation this time round.

The way and the extent of our defeat will have handed all of our opponents new hope.

It'll take some picking the bones out of this for Javi - we were so good for 30 mins then with the same players on the field we just mailed it....

It's looking like what I feared.

Gifting them a first goal on a plate, then starting the second half still stunned from conceding. Meslier & others a sleep for that first goal, Ayling again not being awake for the second. Game as good as over.

A bit silly to throw away the points against a fairly average side.

oh dear. Back to the relegation drawing board 😯

No he's been poor again.

If we at this moment we could get a point from this game it would be pretty amazing. Fight.

Certainly odd that Forshaw on bench, then again it's strange to me why Bambi is still being played. Maybe both are being windowed for a move on next season?

I believe in Gracia, but have to agree that there is no way that Forshaw can be part of our future. MOT