You would play Woods, with just one first team start under his belt ( against Colchester ! ) as a sweeper ??! Seriously ?? Against England’s centre forward.....and if we lack pace at the back you think Kouyate would solve that ? If there’s a word for those tactics I for one wouldn’t be calling them “ innovative “.

As for outscoring teams, you may have noticed that we lack a consistent goal scorer and that prior to yesterday our defensive record was good. Hardly the basis for advocating all out attack . That would leave even more space for the opposition to play in.

It’s strange what a defeat against one of the best sides in Europe does to people.....

Old, Ungifted and White

I think Saturday shows just how important James McArthur is to our midfield. For all his faults, and he has a few, his energy, harassing and ability to work box to box for 90 mins was sadly lacking. He epitomises the work rate and discipline that we need against the top teams!

Edited by salop-eagle (16 Sep 2019 7.19am)

Perfect summation of the situation . We will have better days and probably worse days that is football at any club. COYP

This:
We were battered by the Champions League finalists who had a very good day and one of those days when all their chances hit the back of the net.

They have much better players than us all the way from 1 to 11.

Nobody expected us to win and we didnt win so move on and except the fact that we are no where near their level.

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I totally agree .... we will have are up and down days this season ... this was one of them. Very one of of spurs players is top class and I expected to get beat maybe by one or two .. it is what it is ... get past this game and on to the next. COYP

Record crowd 51,482 - The Whitehorse was rocking - Second Div Champs 1978 - 79 ... 'wot a night !

We are a poor team.

We have a poor keeper who lets any shot in that goes at his near post. We have two full-backs who cannot defend and criminally we have no backup for either position. Our centre-halves are slow and ageing. Our midfielders have no creativity in them (indeed thay can barely pass to their own team) - yet we have two creative midfielders on the bench every week. Our wide players seem to have forgotten how to take people on and cross the ball, and out forward's main talent is that he's good at running about.

I've followed Palace for over 50 years and have been a season ticket holder for 35, yet I cannot remember a time when I've been less enthusiastic about going to watch them play. Even in the dark days of the mid-80s there were players at the club I wanted to see play. Hodgson has sucked the life out of the players he has and has just one method of playing. How often do we score an early goal? We must be the lowest first-half scorers in recent years. Football is meant to be entertainment - if this is the best we can expect from Hodgson then it is time he went and took his overdue retirement. Not all his fault of course - the appalling transfer policy in recent times has left him with an expensive, ageing squad of players that are not going to get any better. Rather than risk signing youngsters from the Championship, we go for expensive PL castoffs or foreign players who rarely seem to make the grade for us.

We dont have one player who would get in their team and im including Wilf in that whos value is dropping with every game