Sadly we are until the bottom three teams cannot catch our points total with the remaining games left to play!

Eze came on at 85 mins, on 86 mins Mateo Kovacic brought him down after Eze had beaten him, why don't we all look at how Chelsea treated our players during the entire game ..it took Christian Pulisic just two minutes to drag Olise down after he'd left him for dead ..if he'd not cheated then he was off running through the middle as Eze would've been, meanwhile the ref just awarded us another free kick which allowed Chelsea the time to organise themselves, nothing was ever said to these players throughout the game as they all took the piss out of our team and us watching...and all we can talk and write about is the fact that Eze was involved in the only goal of the game.

One point isn't irrelevant.

For once I predicted the actual score correctly !

Positives could be found from the performance but I really couldn't see us scoring.

Very galling to concede a goal in the dying embers of the game and my face must have been a picture of misery.I admit to using a word relating to parts of a man's anatomy - roughly spherical and there are two of them.

Edited by Willo (20 Feb 2022 12.05am)

Our style of play today was really impressive. Loved the movement up front between Zaha Olise Ayew and Schlupp. So good having MacArthur back firing on all four and Kouyate so strong. This could develop into a dynamic system. However, it didn’t yield any goals. Maybe they will come. We certainly matched the world champions right up until the end with impressive play.
Vieira will know where this style is heading and how we can score goals.
Our defence was superb, Mitchell really growing as a very useful player ( other than 89th minute).

Really unlucky to lose today. Must have said that at least half a dozen times this season. That’s what we need to be working on. Yet again left Selhurst feeling uplifted about our style and future but disappointed that we got nothing for it. Keep at it Palace It’s coming.