I think Palace ironically benefited from FFS getting injured in the first leg. He has been off form for a couple of months, and it allowed Holloway to play Zaha more centrally, where he took his chances very well, and we didn't take ours.
I didn't think we were THAT bad on Monday, it was tight until the first goal, Palace had only had the one chance from Williams in the first hour. At the same time we were not dominating, and the team that was put out was timid for a home leg (no Kaz, who deserved a place as Buckley has not been firing on all cylinders recently, god knows where Vicente had disappeared to, and Barnes on the bench).
It still sickens me to think of Monday night, but that is how a derby result should feel. The only consolation is that it would have been ten times worse had the result been at Wembley.
I didn't think we were THAT bad on Monday, it was tight until the first goal, Palace had only had the one chance from Williams in the first hour. At the same time we were not dominating, and the team that was put out was timid for a home leg (no Kaz, who deserved a place as Buckley has not been firing on all cylinders recently, god knows where Vicente had disappeared to, and Barnes on the bench).
It still sickens me to think of Monday night, but that is how a derby result should feel. The only consolation is that it would have been ten times worse had the result been at Wembley.