We are quite average and yesterday we played a team that fits very nicely in the top six, if our players could run and pass the ball as well as Spurs and also execute the cute little niggling fouls to break up attacking play without attracting the attention of the ref we would also be sitting nicely in the top six and in any case if any of our players had the cheek to play as consistently and well as any of the players Spurs have they'd be off as quick as Wan-Bissaka! ...and you know that!!

Having someone who is competent with passing requires someone who is competent with receiving it, also it does require someone competent on the ball to be able to actually give the ball to the competent ball player in the first place, this requires a little more thought and a massive huge purse.
Teams in the top six are there for a reason, we are not part of it.

Spurs stopped us performing.

We were crap in defence, midfield and attack. Even Guaita was rubbish. You can't get more comprehensively bad than that. I might also add the tactics were wrong too. Spurs scored with route one stuff - they didn't need to be a top side to do that. Shown up for lack of pace at the back and lack of movement all over the pitch.

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I'm sure we can improve. Would be pretty hard to concede softer goals.
If we had played anybody as a sweeper a lot of their play would not have been possible, so clever tactics could have helped too. Would not have needed to be a specialist sweeper - just someone to make the ball over the top too risky for them.
Every other team will have noticed how bad we were and just play long ball against us. Our thirty year old plus centre backs and aging/ poor full backs will struggle to get back. Obvious and will be happening match after match now.
Those saying Spurs were good are incorrect - they just identified an obvious flaw, whilst that was compounded by us being poor.

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If anybody is saying we weren't crap then they are wrong. As for people saying Spurs were great, as I already said they weren't. They played direct and we couldn't handle it.
Fair enough, there was a degree of accuracy and urgency about what they did. I will say that. They could be in the top four at the end of the season but they don't seem as good as last season to me anyway.
Could have played Woods as a sweeper or Kouyate as a central defender. We lack pace at the back even if everyone was fit. Or am I also so wrong there? And yes some innovative tactics would not go amiss.
No point in not conceding anymore when you're already well down. You have to change things, you have to try to outscore them if you can't defend. Our team and manager seem literally unable to adapt at all.
I hardly think I'm the only one saying it. As for pundits - it doesn't make that much difference to me what Andy Gray or even Gary Neville thinks. I'm pretty sure I'm also not the only one who ignores them either.
We are Palace and the pundits have basically ignored us for years except to condescend us on the odd occasion.

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