what an embarrassing thread jesus

I can’t believe some fans we have one of the best defenders I have seen at Palace in my time the way he brings the ball down and try’s to play out of defence is excellent of course by doing this you will be prone to the odd mistake.

I believe the record this season with him and Tompkins playing together it’s something like 10 game 5 clean sheets and 5 goals conceded this says it all to me on how important they both are to our team.

The only problem is you can’t build a solid platform on players that can only play 10 or so games together without constantly getting injured something we are going to have to look at.

On a slightly different note why nobody can deny that CB needs dropping we also have to acknowledge his header that played Zaha in for the penalty also when strikers go on a Barron run they get taken out of the firing line to help stop there confidence being to smitherinens unfortunately cause of bad management at the start of the season in not buying another striker we have not been able to The the pressure is constantly on CB and unfortunately it has had a massive impact on his confidence and him as a player.

We need to support these players not constantly knock them even some of the big players at other teams have struggled Lacazette at Arsenal to name one but you don’t become a bad player over night.

Let’s support the guys we have 6 big games with 2 wins required to stay up.

Come on Palace we can do this together.

I was disconcerted yesterday by how quickly the ball was coming back when we had it in defence. I was watching on TV, but there was a spell of five minutes or so when we kept the bell for around 15 seconds each time we got it.

The key to surviving against these bigger sides is keeping possession. Sakho seems to bring the ball down and distribute it, whereas the others seem to lump it forward.

Sakho makes mistakes, but we need more like him, not less.

He is a top defender.
He makes mistakes - tell me a player who doesn't.
Both goals were really created from our right hand side and on both occasions Bissaka had two men.
Whose fault was that?
Either Kelly or Townsend is my guess?
Sakho may have got a couple of things wrong but in fact he helped keep the League's most potent striker to one proper chance which he sadly scored from.
The OP listened to too many pundits after the game!!

Edited by The Dolphin (04 Apr 2018 5.53am)

Sakho looks better with tomkins next to him as he did with dann so hopefully tomkins is back soon

Shrewd negotiatiors... vs Parish & now Dougie “signed some good players for cheap when we were in the Championship” Freedman

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