[Albion] Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[GrizzlingGammon]

90 seconds to halftime... Punt the c*nting ball up the other end of pitch instead of fannying around in no space.

 

[rebel51]

Gutless tonight so far

 

[Krafty]

We can argue whether Steele or Verbruggen is better.

But, in reality, they have both been sh*t recently. What's the point?

 

[trueblue]

Hinshelwood and Baleba have looked out of their depth. Adingra and Mitoma look absolutely knackered. This is what I feared.

Harsh on Hinshelwood.

 

[Bodian]

Good to see March back in just a few days though

That would be quite funny if it wasn't so sad.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Palace will go on and comfortably win this game

Did anyone expect anything else? They look a much more confident, organised and choherent side than us. And it was so predictable.

We and RDZ are really not as good as we think. After months if platitudes, it’s time for some home truths.

 

[sagaman]

Time for Steele to have a clear run

 

[BN41Albion]

Just scrolling through the thread. Guess we're 7-0 down. Barber out!

Please enlighten us on how the thread should read?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

He coul earn his bloody salt by telling his team that Palace need us to make a mistake for them to score. f***ing embarrassing and inexcusable.

He is getting schooled by Roy f***ing Hodgson. I'm furious at RDZ tonight (the greatest manager we've ever had i must add).

Didn’t realise the game had finished.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

We are the MASTERS of playing perfectly into the hands of shithouse teams like Palace. We train to attack all week long. They train to defend and counter.

Get the ball to Mitoma and Adingra. Move it QUICKER, ideally before half f***ing time.

For f*** sake!

 

[Bodian]

We can argue whether Steele or Verbruggen is better.

But, in reality, they have both been sh*t recently. What's the point?

Not sure Steele has done much wrong to deserve that?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Never looked like scoring
Palace always do

 

[brightn'ove]

We can argue whether Steele or Verbruggen is better.

But, in reality, they have both been sh*t recently. What's the point?

What has Steele done wrong this season? He hasn’t put a foot wrong for me.

 

[Bridcutt]

Issue is we're currently getting the negatives of the way we play (mistake at the back = goal) without the benefits (bypassing the press and creating 1 on 1s) because we go backwards when we do get up the pitch or Mitoma or Adingra do very little

 

[chickens]

Tough to watch that, like watching a car crash. The sense of inevitability was strong.

In RDZ’s defence, he usually comes up with a plan to fix things in the second half, but wouldn’t it be nice to start strongly too?

Here’s hoping for an improved second half.

 

[Flounce]

I don't often blame anybody for mistakes, but the dutch keeper needs to learn when get rid is the ONLY option! I know he's young, but FFS we're not shooting and scoring enough at the other end for this piss arsing about when there is three opponents around you with no out ball
I'm probably being harsh because it's frustrating

If players aren’t prepared to boot it out of play or upfield it’s because they are scared of a bollocking. If this was Potter we would be slaughtering him for this run of form and the same mistakes over and over. RDZ needs a kick up the ass .

The attacking play is actually worse than Potterball. We are not even threatening. Crap first half and if we don’t improve, this could get embarrassing. I see no positives at all in that half

 

[Deadly Danson]

Did anyone expect anything else? They look a much more confident, organised and choherent side than us.

That is stone cold rubbish.

 

[jcdenton08]

We’ve got to stop turning around and passing backwards once we’ve broken the press.

It reminds me of someone like Nani, who’d beat his man with dribbling, and instead of crossing or continuing forward, would stop, check back and try and beat him again for no reason.

About four times in that half we were in their half dribbling forwards and stopped, turned around and passed backwards.

Our system is based on risk and reward but right now it’s all risk in all the wrong areas of the pitch. We need to go forward bravely and stop recycling the ball in dangerous areas

 

[Hometownglory]

Where is the desire to get into the box and bloody score? Keep passing it sideways and backwards. So much like a Potter team today. The less said about the mistake, the better. I fear Mitoma has been found out...

 

[trueblue]

Did anyone expect anything else? They look a much more confident, organised and choherent side than us. And it was so predictable.

We and RDZ are really not as good as we think. After months if platitudes, it’s time for some home truths.

You what? They hardly touched the ball for about 35 of the 45 minutes - but they are attempting to be more incisive when they get it. We’ve become a bit Potteresque in possession without March & Enciso.