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

[Invicta]

Take the point, defeat would have been too much to that shower. Need to start matches as if we're behind and play with that sort of urgency from the start.

 

[Bodian]

We surely can't be happy to take a draw against a Palace side as terrible as that.

We always have to be happy simply not to lose to Palace. It really doesn't matter how terrible they are - they always find a way. After all, they came back from 2-0 against Man City at the weekend.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Struggling to remember the last league game where we weren't unbelievably bad in the first half tbh. Of the games I've been at, probably Liverpool, and we still went into that one behind.

We absolutely need two full backs, a midfielder and a winger in Jan or we will be also-rans in the race for top 8. No shame in that, but this side is capable of it.

We weren’t unbelievably bad in the first half against Brentford

 

[pb21]

Facu man of the match in my opinion

He definitely put a real shift in, best performance imo.

 

[birthofanorange]

You know the whistle is about to blow, there's under a minute left of injury time, but still sideways, back, sideways back. Until ref blows for FT

That last minute sums up a massively frustrating night.

Yep, just get the damn ball in the box and at least there's a chance of something, even a last gasp penalty. So pointless to be passing it around the edge with so little time remaining.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

First half a bit woeful. Subs made a big difference. Felt sorry for Beleba, I am sure he'll come good, but he looks a bit scared to have the ball, just looks for the 5 yard pass back to centre half every time.
Much better when Gross went there.
Also thought that was Bunnanotte's best game when he came on. Looked much more threatening than Adingra.
And Welbeck is back.
Just annoying that we keep making that one mistake every game that costs us.

 

[Weststander]

We were lucky tonight.

Palace played better than us for a good portion of that game.

We looked very much like a team struggling to find form and to keep fit.

I don't know that we deserved the equaliser if I'm honest. But I will take it.

Interestingly, the CP fora think they were bloody awful this evening, outplayed, lucky to get a point in the end. Knives out for Hodgson and Eze.

 

[raymondo]

Much better second half. Buananotte made a big difference. I think half the problem at the moment is our wingers are so exhausted that they lack the usual threat especially when teams double up on them.So having a different attacking option through the middle gives us something else. Brilliant header from Wellbeck and a deserved point.

We need to play with either Mitoma or Adingra and rotate them. That would also force us to be creative in other ways.

 

[chrisg]

Thought we were the better team. What a sickened their goal. Wait to Ensciso, Solly etc back and we'll be winning these games. Point ain't the end of the world. If only Welbrks deflection had rolled in instead of just wide. Heh ho

Solly ! Not this season pal

 

[Ding Dong !]

With 80 mins played I thought it would never go in. Well done Danny, great goal and fully deserved.

We could have so easily lost that. Take a point and move on.

 

[BadFish]

We seem to be severely lacking in the goals that were promised with RBZ. Commentators constantly going on about our goals conceded stat but it shouldn't matter the idea was that we let in a couple and score more.

Wasn't it?

 

[boik]

We were lucky tonight.

Palace played better than us for a good portion of that game.

We looked very much like a team struggling to find form and to keep fit.

I don't know that we deserved the equaliser if I'm honest. But I will take it.

If you consider 20 minutes to be a good portion of 90 then I guess you're right.

 

[Dick Head]

Defiantly.

not unless its celery

 

[WhingForPresident]

We weren’t unbelievably bad in the first half against Brentford

Yeah, I wasn't at that one We still managed to gift them a goal though.

 

[Weststander]

Gilmour for me. Particularly second half, he was excellent. If he had someone of a similar level next to him he’d be some player.

MacA-Caicedo-Gilmour would be quality. His lack of pace an irrelevance.

 

[Bodian]

Verbruggen or Gilmour.

That's the trouble with purely written communications - you can never quite tell if someone is taking the piss or not!

 

[brighton_dave]

They drew with Man City, they aren’t THAT terrible.

They are crap. City are on a wobble. We couldn't ask to play a weaker Palace side. If it weren't for the trash that got promoted they'd be at risk of relegation this season.

 

[Krafty]

The clean sheet problem needs to be addressed, and shouldn't be brushed over again.

Another defensive mistake at the back; it's a massive problem.

 

[Seasider78]

imagine being a palace fan with Roy trying to shut up shop at half time and Olise with the ball time wasting in the corner on 70min. No wonder they are all so depressed up the road watching that shit every week.

 

[The Optimist]

Is that 2 wins in 12 now, relegation form. Thankfully there are three very poor teams

12 points from those 12 games, which is just about staying up form. And we played all of the current top 4 in that run. Now that we have no European football until March I’m sure we’ll pick up more than enough points to not be worried about how many poor teams there are.