Parish
Get in Eddie Howe before it’s too late and someone else snaffles him!

Lessons from the game,
- Don’t attempt to turn Eze into Townsend by playing him right wing as was done in the first half
- Don’t play a 2 man midfield against a mobile opposition that rotate players.You’re likely to be outnumbered.
- Mark from set pieces and don’t continue to give free headers to the opposition
- Provide some service to the striker(s) or Mateta is likely to go the way of Benteke, Batshuayi and Sorloth in looking pretty hopeless
- Don’t play against a quick opposition with no pace in your central defence or deepest midfield position. Kouyate was available and would have not been exposed for pace as were the three players in question.
Feel free to add other lessons.

I also rate Nigel Pearson. Remember he was the guy who moulded Leicester into the force they still are today. He seems to be a bit of a hard bar steward and so I’m not 100% sure about how he would get on with Parish.

And that is the main problem - 3 central midfielders with two wide midfielders is the only way this ageing / lack of any quality team should be playing. Defence to deep as well which didn’t help.

I still haven't calmed down but in defence of our Manager the pitch was a disgrace and Leeds should be heavily fined for the state of it.
Also - he cannot legislate for Palace players not recognising the colour of the shirts when they are passing the ball.
Injuries - not his problem - but every team has them right now so he has to suck that up.
After that it is on him and that is a heavy weight to bear.
Where Leeds were fast and pressed hard we were cumbersome and pedestrian.
Where Leeds passed the ball quickly we were the polar opposite.
Where they had a plan and a purpose we had neither and all over the field their generally Championship players made ours look League one!
Dann was poor - he cannot play two games on the bounce - and whilst Kouyate may be tired he should have played - Cahill looks better with him.
Round pegs and square holes everywhere.
This just cannot go on - but it will.
I am so glad I am not paying to go and watch this dross.
The players have to answer of course but the Manager is in control and trains them every day - not that you would think so.
Roy has been great for us and a top Manager around the world but he has reached the end of that road in my opinion and there is no shame in that.
We will stay up of course because the bottom three are not likely to get out of the trouble they are in and we will be a part of the group above them.
No shame in that as such but in our eighth season in the Prem I expect slightly more than that and maybe a smidge more battling spirit and even some entertainment.
Maybe I am asking too much?

The worrying thing is if West Ham and Leeds had a taken all their chances as Liverpool did we could have conceded seven in both of these games as well.What I can’ understand is how now we look like conceding goals from every corner now where as we used to concede very few goals in games.I know our CB’s are slow but this shouldn’t matter at set pieces,points to lack of confidence/ desire to keep the ball out.