Maybe Cech should read Lehmans book he wasn't exactly in command of anything last night.

I don't think that Cech is the goalkeeper he was.

I'm still in the Hennessey camp but I don't really see where the criticism of Speroni is coming from. Sometimes I think we expect too much from our keepers and Speroni has made several very good saves in the last few matches.

The shot from Sanchez which went in at his near post was hit very firmly through a crowd and I think he did well to get his fingers to it.

Perhaps he could have done better for the first but the third was one of those times that, had he saved it, I'd be saying it was an excellent stop.

I think most Palace fans want a younger top flight keeper but they aren't cheap and I imagine it is a case of prioritising for Roy and the club.

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

Perhaps but I think he may have done better with the initial save but that doesn't take away from what I said, apart from some dodgy distribution and that mistake with the pass to Dann, I think he has done well and made some very good saves.

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

Spot on. Need the defence to be strengthened in line with the goalkeeper. Would be surprised if we didn't bring in another goalie in Jan, as that was clearly needed, like 2 strikers in the summer. Either that or we strengthen the defence with a major signing and make do. I suspect we will go for the former.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Don't forget that we were missing a first choice centre back (Sakho), the first choice right back (Ward) and - to a lesser extent due to longevity - the first choice left back (Souare). They will all be back (hopefully soon), and we can judge the defense at that time and when we're not playing an on-fire Arsenal.

The big issues for me last night were the porous midfield and the invisibility of the target frontman. All night, Arsenal just walked up to our 18-yard line without impediment, which would be trouble for any defense, let alone one of which 75% are replacements.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.