Six of one and half a dozen of the other. A manager can be an easy go to for blame though. We don't have the quality of some top tier sides and on occasion it shows.

Given the success against Man C I can understand us going with the same plan. What was baffling was the lack of pressing especially against Jorginho. Perhaps it was fear of Hazard but other teams have had success closing Jorginho down early as he is their fulcrum.
I also hate the wait till 60 mins mentality. After a good first half we could have torn into them after the break, got Selhurst rocking and forced them to change on the fly. Instead we sat back again and inevitably lost a goal.
The last 8 minutes showed we had it in us to get after them, shame we didn't try it for 45.

Positives were Wan-Bissaka and seeing Wickham get on. Jimmy Mac is a machine. Tompkins looked good too.

Roy's approach to the Chelsea game was p1ss poor. Every minute we spent defending them in our defensive third was a bonus minute for them. Every minute we spetd attacking their goal in their defensive third was a minute our defenders could recoup from, and it f--ked with their heads, and whenwe started playing like that in the final 10 minutes we looked liked scoring too, and with more time, adrenalin and the selhurst crowd we could quite have reasonably scored. 1 chance and zero shots on target FFS, Roy, what were you thinking? Don't come your England manager sh1t here please. His approach meant losing our 12th player - the Selhurst fans. Idiotic. Gave them too much respect. Any top six team would be sh1tting themselves coming to SP. A gross piece of mis-coaching.

I think the penalty spot is usually inside the area :-)

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Personally wouldn't even have him on the bench, brings nothing to the team and certainly is not creative IMO

Agree he should have hit the target but if you drop every player who has had a disappointing miss, we would be able to field 11 players