I couldn't tell where a lot of them were playing, Kouyate expecially, Reidewald seemed to swap central mid for left wing back, Johnny seemed to be used wide, Puncheon was a widish attacker first half but deeper second half, maybe I'm just stupid but formation wise I could not quite tell where everyone one was in the old 4-4-2, or maybe it was total football, or a different formation, can anybody help me please without suggesting medication?

Midfield looked messy. Joniesta and Meyer feel are both similar players and got tangled up in some of the play. Both looked good enough to fill the role. Kouyate and Riedewald seemed to drift around as you say.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Townsend and Ward changed the game when they came on..nice to see Roy make changes on 60mins when they were required!

The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World

The less said about last nights game the better.
Sorloth is bang average and it is quite astonishing that the powers that be have decided to make us endure yet another season with no clinical goalscorer.
We had our best games last season with Wilf and Townsend up front.

Good match and nice to see Williams play (and play very well at that). I love the way he drives at the opposition from midfield, something our other players don't seem to do. Meyer looked good although he seemed to run out of of steam a bit, not really surprising.

Guaita did well with a couple of shots. I thought Sorloth did quite well and kept the ball and laid it off pretty well. Very good goal.

Star of the show was AWB, such a pacey player and seems to get tackles in at just the right time.

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

But we have Connor Wickham, who we are told is just like having a new signing. Call me a bluff old traditionalist but I thought you had to play to score ? Not many goals are scored from Nando's or the treatment table.

I thought we may have learned our lesson and got proper back up for Benheskey who surely has his days numbered at Selhurst. Will Ayew bang them in ? I seriously doubt it another bang average striker that was part of a team that got relegated.

Trust me folks I know my footy and this season is going to be a tough old b******. We witnessed what having Ward and Kelly on the pitch at the same time on the right hand side of defence leads to, basically Townsend ends up trying to play right back (a la Watford) because ward is out of his depth with anyone that can run at more than a childs pace, meaning we only have Wilf as a real attacking threat, and as Townsend is loathed to go to far forward (because ward is to slow), we end up like we did when Wilf was out and we only had Boliaise, teams just doubled up on our fast winger, and nullified our crosses into the box for Murray, now it's Benheskey ( what I wouldn't give to have Murray back.)

Our style of play requires quick full backs and fast wingers ON BOTH SIDES, without this we don't have the same devastating attacking options from both sides of the pitch.

On a plus side, was nice to see Mayer link up with wilf, why Roy insists on playing him wide left is somewhat of a mystery.

Edited by Dannyh.V2 (29 Aug 2018 1.28pm)