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Palace vs Man City Match Thread
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 Aray  South London 23 Dec 18 9.13am |
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A friend asked my prediction and I said a sneaky one nil win! When we went down I wasn’t optimistic any longer...Wish I’d backed us to get a result. An excellent performance. And credit to Schlupp for making up for his earlier error. As for Andros... Let’s hope they aren’t too tired for the game on Wednesday.
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cryrst  The garden of England 23 Dec 18 9.19am |
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Originally posted by YT
Just (daringly) floating the suggestion that the 2nd City goal was Guita’s fault. Each time I watch it I think he’s going to stretch out to palm the cross away, but he does nothing. Thoughts? Am I being unfair? 2 starts 2 wins
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chateauferret  23 Dec 18 9.29am |
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Originally posted by joe_cpfc
That makes sense if your going to hold up the ball then play in the players who have caught up with him, not hold the ball up then try and take on the 4/5 opponents who have surrounded you instead of passing. And he hasn’t run his bollocks off against anyone for a while now not just against City. The bloke needs a rocket up his arse because his work rate lately compared to everyone else is disgusting. Bollocks. Wilf seemed to have picked up a knock at some point but the City defenders were so scared of him that they ganged up on him and let Townsend, Schlupp, Meyer and McArthur do some proper damage. If Wilf tried to just "hold the ball up" like a one-up-top centre forward they will just take it off him; this is City we're talking about. If he runs at the defenders with the ball or puts himself into good position though he pulls the defence out of shape and that was a factor in all three goals yesterday.
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| chateauferret 23 Dec 18 9.29am |
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Originally posted by YT
Just (daringly) floating the suggestion that the 2nd City goal was Guita’s fault. Each time I watch it I think he’s going to stretch out to palm the cross away, but he does nothing. Thoughts? Am I being unfair? Fluke. De Bruyne had no business expecthing that to go in.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 23 Dec 18 9.41am |
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Originally posted by braunstoneagle
you guys dont have a clue do you, reading this tripe majes me laugh wilf was doing the job asked of him by the manager, hold up play allowing others to catch up with play and come ibto the game, and by having 3 players on him it leaves space in other areas. 4 games in 11 days and you want wilf to run his bollocks off against citeh. your mad I thought Zaha did very well considering the attention he always gets now, was certainly fouled on three occasions and awarded nothing as usual, his pace is just too good for the majority of officials watching him and yes the Man.C players by keeping an eye on him gave other players more time...time which we used lethally for a change, good on you braunstoneagle.
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| steve1984 23 Dec 18 9.41am | |
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Originally posted by thai-eagle
Which they invariably did.
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| steve1984 23 Dec 18 9.47am | |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
If he runs at the defenders with the ball or puts himself into good position though he pulls the defence out of shape and that was a factor in all three goals yesterday. Yep Schlupp's goal was made by 2 tackles, one on Wilf and the other on James Mc where City played the ball onto one of our players. If they hadn't needed to make the tackles we wouldn't have scored.
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| YT Oxford 23 Dec 18 10.23am |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Fluke. De Bruyne had no business expecthing that to go in. Right-ho.
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| braunstoneagle the middle of bumf*** nowhere... 23 Dec 18 10.27am |
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Originally posted by joe_cpfc
That makes sense if your going to hold up the ball then play in the players who have caught up with him, not hold the ball up then try and take on the 4/5 opponents who have surrounded you instead of passing. And he hasn’t run his bollocks off against anyone for a while now not just against City. The bloke needs a rocket up his arse because his work rate lately compared to everyone else is disgusting. i dont think you get it do you? hes playing a different role recently his job isnt to do the job of a winger when hes playing point of the team. if he is the outlet for the team, especially against a possession dominating team like citeh whose main aim is to stretch you out wide to make space in the middle for their utterly mindblowing wealth of attacking players to exploit, then when we release the ball into their half we need it held up for as long as possible and wilf does that by using his strenght & skill. hes not being lazy, he is following the managers instructions.
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| spartakev2 Anerley 23 Dec 18 10.37am |
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Originally posted by braunstoneagle
i dont think you get it do you? hes playing a different role recently his job isnt to do the job of a winger when hes playing point of the team. if he is the outlet for the team, especially against a possession dominating team like citeh whose main aim is to stretch you out wide to make space in the middle for their utterly mindblowing wealth of attacking players to exploit, then when we release the ball into their half we need it held up for as long as possible and wilf does that by using his strenght & skill. hes not being lazy, he is following the managers instructions. Thought he did this first half. But went off ilimping at half time and felt he was carrying a knock second half which meant there were a few balls he should possibly havd chased and didn't. Personally thougt he shoukd gave been substituted af some point second half and saved for Cardiff.
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| chateauferret 23 Dec 18 10.46am |
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Originally posted by spartakev2
Thought he did this first half. But went off ilimping at half time and felt he was carrying a knock second half which meant there were a few balls he should possibly havd chased and didn't. Personally thougt he shoukd gave been substituted af some point second half and saved for Cardiff. I shudder to think what would have happened had he been replaced with Ayew at half time.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 23 Dec 18 11.01am |
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Originally posted by YT
Just (daringly) floating the suggestion that the 2nd City goal was Guita’s fault. Each time I watch it I think he’s going to stretch out to palm the cross away, but he does nothing. Thoughts? Am I being unfair? I don’t think he or any keeper could’ve got to that. He either judged it as that, gave up, or didn’t fancy breaking his collar bone against the post trying his best to save it but whatever it was, he wasn’t going to save it. I’d rather be stayed fit as well. Not sure if De Bruyne meant it or not. Maybe half meant it/half meant a dangerous cross planted at the far post/keeper, but it was so perfect it wasn’t going to be saved so thankfully not enough to influence the result.
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