of course it can.

we are palace not man city.

playing in one of the strongest leagues in world football.

out up n down results are that of a mid table team.

to lower the goals let in would only be that of a team with ideas of finishing top 8.

the current form is totally and utterly acceptable for a club like ours.

AP needs to find out why we start so slowly, because it isn't the plan it would seem. Every team has tactics to stop the other playing and West ham fooled everyone with their formation, but we were dominant in the second half, but our now familiar failure to make pressure count reared it's ugly head again. Benteke was bought to make the difference in these type of games and yesterday he should of, but had an off day.
He can't do it every game, but I'm sure he will come up with the important goals that turn these types of games on more occasions than he fails. Got a number of games coming up where chances will be of a premium and he's got to deliver in those games that's for sure.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

We lost because we didn't take our chances. Harsh to blame Pardew for the team that he picked because near enough that same lineup was unbeaten in 5 league games and noone deserved to be dropped. It didn't work so he changed it at half time and we looked a much better side.

If the penalty goes in we probably go on to win it. There certainly wasn't a lack of effort yesterday, just a few poor performances and lack of cutting edge in front of goal. We'll look a much better side when Cabaye and Dann are back in the starting lineup next week.

cpj makes the point that we've conceded first in 6 of our 8 league games. I'd been thinking that before reading his comment & agree we need to concentrate on not conceding at least 1 a game - every game so far.

my take on it having to watch it at work, 2 errors cost us, mcarthur was ball watching & the bloody awful penalty, we were beaten by a better team, going onto the ole cliche we could still be playing now and still not score
real reason i think is this bloody poxy international break, seemed to stop any momentum we had...but hey ho onwards and upwards

Edited by thegreatlardino (16 Oct 2016 4.59pm)

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

Sometimes you could play all day and not score. We had chances, we missed a penalty (it was just a miss, not the "worst ever" ), we faced ten men for a decent chunk of the game, but still we didn't score. It happens. It happened memorably to West Ham at our play-off final in Cardiff. Yesterday it happened to us. We move on.

COYP

Edited by Sansbup (16 Oct 2016 6.54pm)