Excellent post.
There are many who think Guaita is always above criticism.
He is always lauded as a great 'shot stopper' but then most goalkeepers are.
However, despite his greater height, he lacks ability in coming from his line to deal with balls into the 6 yard box and often watches balls travel the width of the goal line without dealing with them. He is also not the future.
Arguably, the slow build up play and tortuous playing out from the back is exacerbated by his pretty average ability in kicking.
Bizarrely his 2 ludicrous errors in the FA cup game v Southampton were brushed under the carpet,(as were Speroni's before him) and if a previous keeper, say Wayne Hennessey, had made such mistakes, one can only imagine the vitriol on here.

Agree about the academy , young lads on loan doing great things , if we stay up and the plan all along was to blood the youngsters and it works then parish and viera will be hailed as heroes , and I for one would agree , but if we fall this season, it would all have been for nothing , it’s a massive gamble to keep him or sack him, I for one am pleased I’m not the one having to make the decision

“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

19 year old as of two weeks ago being put into a premier league game against our most disgusting rivals , I won’t blame him for the goal and no palace fan should , without him would have been worse

“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

That and if our forward players, with massively superior experience and no doubt wages, could score glaring headers and one vs ones we wouldn't even be having the conversation.

I would suggest that any youth playing starting in goal, let alone whilst pressure is high and playing away, at your main rivals who are crushingly far better than you, should always be considered as massively perilous so to only concede one is quite remarkable and anybody would bite your hand off in that scenario.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I am sure that he will have learnt a valuable lesson about staying focussed throughout the game from conceding that goal.