You can definitely still be a palace fan and be frustrated by an expensive international striker who week on week is missing decent chances and struggling to score goals. It’s not personal. He’s just not playing very well at the moment. Maybe some bench time will fire him up again.

He's crying out for a spell on bench no matter what everyone says the way he's playing they will be no goals from him as for going to world cup your joking aren't you i think roy or Southgate would say the same

In any normal club that would have been the end of him. Playing alongside Soerloth yesterday threw into perspective just how s*** he has become. Soerloth did all those things but battled for the ball, got his headers on target and forced saves, tracked back to defend, held the ball up and did all the things that Benteke does "well". He was unlucky not to score; Benteke missed two sitters.

It's frustrating because we've seen him do well for us before, but now he looks like another Sonogo, Akinbyi or Bumfluff. Now he's likely to lose his place the minute Wilf gets back to someone who's never played at this level before and if that doesn't focus his mind nothing will.

And if he does play well for the rest of the season there's always the chance that he'll go back to being useless at some point and that's a good reason for showing him the door in the summer anyway.

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The Match of the Day predicted goals stats for yesterday were interesting, with us on 1.69 or so and above Everton. Our defensive errors and the usual not taking chances by pretty much the whole team keep impacting. Andros in particular would have been expected to contribute more goals. Agreed, Benteke's wretched time is the biggest single problem, but a 3 week break before we play again can only help judging from how the side & injuries look.

i agree pal just watching on TV hurt really bad god forbid if i actually paid good money to watch live on the day where in need of solid points and wins and with all the effort we're putting in at the moment it's just not going our way we need wilf back a.s.a.p.the lad sorloft put in a good first shift i think him upfront with wilf could be a solid front 2 if we put him in straight away and Benteke on bench when we first signed him could have worked out if it had happened that way who no's we could have been safe right now and not having a big battle on us hands every match from now till the end..sorry for the way i post it's the only way i no.

Bore off! I follow palace home and away, I support the team, that includes Benteke, Hennessy amongst the rest.

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