Typical Palace. Hold out til the 86 minute and then lose.
1. Wilfred clearly not 100% but still the centre point and only threat from us.
2. As usual he was targeted.
3. It was a penalty - and was right in from of us.
4. I knew Luka was going hit it down the middle, and he did. A s*** penalty.
5. Schlupp was poor, so was Luka. Sakho playing like a lunatic didn't help.
6. Wayne played well. "Wales No 1" chant went down well.
7. I did think we were going to hold out get a point which would have been a good result IMO. But at the end of the day typical Palace, miss a penalty and end up losing.

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Well it seems this match had polarised opinion more than any other. I did not see it but there's now a Roy out brigade forming at the same time there's a load of people who seem to think it's the best we've played in a while.

I would agree with all of that. The difference was their bench. They were able to bring on three very good attacking players and they changed the game. Our attacking replacement has had one game against a non-league team in the last two years.

I thought Kouyate was a positive for us and gave us a bit more size and steel in the middle of the park.

I totally agree.

He is 6ft 4in and filled in at centre-half for W.Ham when they had injuries.
I believe the way forward is to play him with Milivojevic to give us that defensive solidity in midfield allowing the more attacking players to be given a freer reign.Perhaps this will improve our goalscoring.

Edited by Willo (22 Oct 2018 1.34pm)

Meyer and Schlupp don’t play the same position.

Meyer will come in for Kouyate no doubt as Roy can’t seem to drop MacArthur or Luka.

Ayew or Kaikai could play where useless Schlupp does.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Hate to say it but one of the big reasons we are so poor without Zaha is Andros is not much of a threat anymore.

With the defensive attention Zaha gets it should open things up for the other players. When those other players are Schlupp, an out of form or possibly finished Andros and MacArthur (tries hard but he is not an attacking midfielder) we are struggling.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.