I am in the freak result category. A penalty that should not have been given and then 2 goals from players who would not have been on the pitch if there had been no sending off or injury to Murray. Definitely suffered from not having a strong enough squad to rotate the players. If only to have the back up players Man City have.
I think we had 29 goal attempts against Burnley but apart from the odd one here and there not many in this game despite playing against 10 men. Brighton defended very well and gave us little or no room.
Think the Sorloth criticism is unjust. He had no service and despite his height we continued to hammer in low balls to feet which were too easily intercepted or blocked which had not worked up until then.
Whilst we looked like scoring heaps against Burnley and none against Brighton the reality is we are somewhere in between and we should be able to survive.

All the hype about the game and we don't turn up!
And then we lose 3-1 against 10 men.
How bad does it get?
You would think that the Eagles would come out all guns blazing against the Seagulls and we surrender the game virtually from the beginning.
So disappointing when you go to see a game that had so much rivalry attached to it.
Thought our guys would bust a gut to get a result.
Should be Seagulls against the sparrows!

Was surprised that we started the same 11 after half time. Being 0.3 down and with us playing so awful we needed to change it around. Yes, the squad is weak but RH had a chance to change tactics by bringing on Sorloth and Ayew by replacing two midfield players and having Townshend and Zaha out wide. Could even have gone to 3 at the back against 10 men Brighton - tactics had to be changed and that was down to Hodgson. Still can’t believe that we continued to play the same way against a side down to 10 men. We scored a freak and wonder goal against Burnley. There is no way Palace will score tap ins playing with the 11 we put out once we go a goal down. The present 11 can only hit teams on the break and all the while the opponents haven’t scored we have a chance. I fear for Saturday :-(

Two things:

1. We lost the game because we failed to deal with the psychological impact of two shocking decisions - Tomkins (as just one example of a number of them) needed to move on, double down, look forward - he didn’t - they didn’t - from that point we were screwed - they should know better and at this level of a professional sport, it’s staggering.

2. I didn’t see a Captain, a Roy Keane, out there grabbing them by the scruff of the neck and rallying them. Nobody appeared to take that role - missed opportunity and disappointing. Do we have a player capable of influencing the rest so fundamentally?

I’m optimistic - I like watching them (most of the time).

We need a striker !

COYP

Roy Keane, surely the Jedi or even Damo ? Seriously though we do miss a player like that, like a lot of teams nowadays.