There should be someone in that position regardless of whether it’s a sub or Riedewald and the player should be putting it away. That goal had nothing to do with the substitution. In the early part of the season PV’s subs were genius. Not at the moment.

Just for a bit of perspective:

Middlesborough are 8th in the Championship, just 3 points ahead of Millwall and took a lacklustre Tottenham side to school last night who are now out of the cup, after extra time.

We beat 'wall in the last round, put in a lethargic and uninspired performance against Stoke, on the proverbial wet Tuesday night, and still managed to go through despite the minimal effort.

I agree entirely with many of the negative comments on here however I am reluctant to read too much into it. I've seen many a very good Palace performance, especially in recent years, which have still left us languishing around the relegation zone and non-competitive in cup competitions.

I am at this stage unwilling to contribute to any criticisms or pessimism given the status quo. We ourselves are still far from the finished article and I would rather be a (working) work-in-progress than constantly changing managers or spending masses of money on players who appear to be failed mercenaries at best, take your pick: Watford, Everton, Man U, Spurs, Newcastle etc etc.

Cheer up fellas, tis not all doom and gloom at the Palace right now! I will always harbour anxiety around impending doom, whether imagined or realistic, however feel we are a lot further from this atm then seasons past. Posted similar sentiments recently so apologies for a repeat performance if that is the opinion.

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I'm not even sure we had as such a bad game A people were Making out.

Seemed like we had a lot of the ball, and for 2/3rds of the game Butland didn't have huge amounts to do.

The only thing That really frustrated me was lack of forward passing and the odd careless pass; the only way we got up the pitch was for Someone to make a burst forward. Ayew and Olise did this a lot. - Ayew seemingly never had an end product to his runs.

This is us at the moment - we allow teams to re-organise by slow passing build up, then have no way of breaking them down, and it's this we have to change.

Think the defenders did ok, not convinced by Anderson and Guehi, but they did their jobs well last night. Tayo looks a good prospect, Clyne was the weak link.

The equaliser also made PV react. no way schlupp and/or Conor was coming on had they not equalised.

Kinda get The subs; Schlupp was to shore up the defence(after all the cross came from Tayos side), whilst at the same time adding his direct running to the attack (although at LB didn't really see the attacking side of hie play!)
CG was a like for like for Ayew, really. though as said previously, I would have liked Eze in there, but I dare say we would have seen that had the score been 1-0.

no idea why Mili and Jairo came on at 1-1. seemed incredibly negative at the time, even though it eventually paid off. Maybe it was a premeditated decision to add bit to the midfield in the closing stages of the game.

Finally, it's a Cup Game - against 'lesser' opposition looking to upset one of the PL-leaguers. the last 1/3rd of the game was always going to be tough. especially after we let them immediately equalise. Form often goes out the window.

Jairo came on to play LB to allow Schlupp to push forward. Why he did not just replace Tayo with Jairo I cannot answer