You are here: Home > News > Player ratings: Palace v Hereford
February 24 2025 6.11pm

Player ratings: Palace v Hereford

August 13 2008

Action

Action

Crystal Palace saw off Hereford in the Carling Cup. But how good was the performance?

Flahavan 7

Did well. No chance with a well-worked Hereford goal and only one moment of difficulty with a dropped cross. Kicking was decent.

Butterfield 7

Pretty poor first half but redeemed himself to some extent with some good work down the right with Oster and with better support one or two crosses may have been converted

Hill 6

Not at his best but was audible above the crowd and was typically committed. Well worth his inclusion in the side.

McCarthy 6

Decent, if unspectacular. Some moments where he seemed to lose position but was playing with a different centre half partner again so nothing to worry about. Also quite vocal.

Fonte 8

Other than a slight blemish in letting Moses Ashikodi's excellent movement get him free to head in, I thought Jose was at his imperious best. He has retained his touch and composure but Warnock and Curle have coached in a no-nonsense approach to defending. Needs to start every week.

Derry 7

Like most, quite poor in the first half but he really got going in the second half with some decent runs. Gave the ball away a bit too often, usually with an under hit flick of the foot, which he needs to address.

Carle 7

A little off his game at first and took a long while to start having an influence. Seems a little too one-footed and tends to turn away from the goal too much but that will improve as he gets more settled. Great goal and looked the part in the second half at times, although was guilty of not getting in the area at the end.

Oster 7.5

Started brightly but the formation in the first half didn't suit him and he got caught between supporting Danny B and supporting Derry/Carle. This often led to Carle and Derry being isolated in the centre and overrun.

Second half he was excellent and made bad passes look good with his control. Total fluke for the goal but he earned his luck with a tireless display. Hugely promising, well done Warnock!

Moses 6

Strangely subdued, often staying one-paced. It is wrong to expect too much from him at his age, though and he showed his class on a couple of occasions and worked hard, particularly in the air. Just a little less sharp than he needed to be and the substitution was right.

Andrew 8

MOM - He impressed me pre-season and today was a step up from that. He did everything Scowcroft does but won more headers, was better with the ball at his feet, was much more mobile and was a bigger goal threat.

If he can keep learning and working this hard he will do very well this season. Hardest working player on the pitch and earned us a lot of space up front we should have used better, tired at the end though and struggled to get in the area at times. The key question is whether he can do this against better opposition.

Ifill 5

Poor generally but his early work promised a lot. He looked good up front for about 10 minutes and was linking well with Andrew and Moses. Sadly, he lost the off-side battle too regularly and this seemed to cause a drop in his enthusiasm. Warnock looked less than pleased and no surprise he was taken off.

Subs

Djilali (58) 7

Great run-out from a really bright player. Another who looked good pre-season and it was shocking how little support he was given when getting himself in to good positions. Incredibly quick.

Fletcher (45) 7

Helped massively to allow Carle licence to get forward. Warnock got this spot-on since, as previously mentioned, Derry and Carle were overrun in the centre (a tactic I have little doubt Hereford took from Watford). Should start ahead of Soares in the next game based on this display.

Scannell (83) 6

Not much time to impress, should have supported the attack better but put the Hereford defence under pressure late on.

Ratings by Chris Hambling

Do you agree? Rate the players' performance here

Latest Headlines

Palace Talk Forum Latest

Villa prediction
at 6.06pm by Talvlad

Fulham v Crystal Palace match thread
at 5.49pm by Xong Kudu

Troy Deeney's Team of the Week
at 5.05pm by Tyke Exile

Home tactics
at 1.43pm by ASCPFC

EZE
at 11.51am by HeathMan

Is the club defrauding loyal supporters?
at 10.32am by dorking

Fulham Predictions.
at 10.01am by Pete53

Tyrick Mitchell
at 8.31pm by eritheagle

Why didn't Sørloth work for us?
at 7.21pm by Team of the (20)80s

Playing away at home
at 6.41pm by Talvlad

You are here: Home > News > Player ratings: Palace v Hereford