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Oddball2021 Adelaide 05 Aug 22 9.47pm | |
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Okay, lots of positives. By 3/4 time Palace were matching them or outplaying them. Once again we didn't win the midfield. Doucoure's an upgrade on last season but I am saddened we didn't get another, better, midfielder. A holding midfielder. Ah well. We can expect to lose against teams like Arsenal but it was a good baptism for this season. We'll be all the better for it.
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Texas Eagle San Antonio, Texas (via Adelaide) 05 Aug 22 9.49pm | |
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Originally posted by southnorwoodhill
It must be frustrating playing behind Zaha, a player who turns over possession consistently Ain't knocking the back four today when they slice through our midfield so easily. I mean there isn't even token resistance, very poor tonight.
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Palacesince64 Edinburgh 05 Aug 22 9.51pm | |
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Don’t think this Arsenal side is as good as they’re making out in Sky. We could easily have taken a point in this game. Unfortunately Mitchell has struggled all night to cope with Saka and as we’ve given away sloppy goals
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Den1923 05 Aug 22 9.51pm | |
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Until we can solve our difficulties up front we are going to struggle!
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Alanh Beckenham 05 Aug 22 9.51pm | |
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Promising first game. We should stay up for another season, or hopefully improve.
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Wilesy01 Bristol 05 Aug 22 9.52pm | |
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As was the case last season if we don't take our chances we can get hit with sucker punches like that OG when we were searching for an equaliser. Really should have had a point out of this!
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EddieMac 05 Aug 22 9.53pm | |
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We could have took a point from that. Lost to 2 sloppy goals and we missed 2 sitters. We will only get better. One of those games.
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kennybrowns leftfoot Reigate 05 Aug 22 9.54pm | |
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He's awful... I'm not sure how how we expect to progress when we have him starting every week. We looked like a team that haven't played much together pre season which of course is exactly what happened. We looked disjointed, hesitant and slow. Midfield was completely non existent.. Schlupp is not a centre midfielder why on earth can't PV see that?? Guehi had an absolute shocker. Thought Clyne played well though. Forget next Monday at Anfield and then the away game to Man City which makes our next 2 home games important otherwise we could find ourselves 4 games in with 0 points.
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Oddball2021 Adelaide 05 Aug 22 10.00pm | |
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Could have won this match if we'd addressed last season's issues of defending set pieces and uprading the midfield. The hole in the midfield put extra pressure on our defenders. PV must get upgrade on Ayew and Milo. This was obvious last season and he's still got them. But still not a bad performance and remember we beat THEM 3-0 not just 2-0! SO we still have bragging rights.
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Texas Eagle San Antonio, Texas (via Adelaide) 05 Aug 22 10.00pm | |
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Our back four can stand proud for what they had to deal with all night. Midfield were statues, sliced up into pieces for the entirety. Up front Mateta has to start, he's our only threat in the air. For the most part are forwards were ineffective and the few chances that came their way they fluffed! Big improvement needed all round.
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PatrickA London 05 Aug 22 10.01pm | |
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I'm not disheartened by that performance.
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Painter Croydon 05 Aug 22 10.01pm | |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
We could have took a point from that. Lost to 2 sloppy goals and we missed 2 sitters. We will only get better. One of those games. Sums it up nicely. They got a bit of luck in front of goal, we didnt. I thought once we got into the game, we were playing quite well. Doucoure had a good debut, struggled with the pace towards the end.
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