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Exactly right. Everyone always tries to explain stuff that happens, but in a low-scoring game, results are decided by luck far more often than people accept. It’s all very Palace. We miss McArthur but we just haven’t had the luck recently. There’s no reason begging to be revealed.

I do think Macca makes a difference, as well as Andersen with his passing out from the back which is almost Sakho-like. However I would like to see Vieira try and adapt the system a bit more while Macca is out.

Now we know Schlupp isn't really like Macca (as well as Luka) surely he can change things a bit so we aren't so dependent on two extremely busy centre mids running around pressing everyone. Plenty of decent midfields in this league don't have that and get by just fine.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'What's going wrong ' by becky

Is the correct answer, all this crap about this player missing and that plyer blah blah is just total crap, we lost by the odd goal in three games and games where we had chances the draw them all, nothing to worry about as far as I'm concerned

While you're right to suggest there's nothing to overly worry about, you're wrong to suggest that missing players is total crap. Macca and Andersen's absence undoubtedly have an impact. As it would for any team losing two of their best.

Injuries and teams working us out. One of the things not mentioned is the Macca injury has now resulted in Gallagher playing in a deeper role. The deeper role does not play to his strengths which is getting forward to help support the forwards where as the moment they are having to do it on their own.
I would like to see Olise play more central with Ayew on the right as i think he has the ability to pick a pass where as Check, Schlupp and Gallagher ( in the deeper role ) don't.
It is not all doom and gloom. Defensively ( we had a lot of corners against us against Man U ) we are looking good with this formation and by all accounts Macca and Anderson are back in training.

Absolutely, while the impact Macca being gone can be exaggerated, it's stupid to think Luka or Jairo or Jeff have stepped into that role seamlessly as if nothing's changed. No way anyone thinks Jeff was as good as Macca yesterday unless they are utterly clueless. Likewise Tomkins/Andersen does have an effect on our attacking play, even if the argument could be made Tomkins is better defensively.