Pizy

We should’ve had 3-4 goals before Palace even had the chance to equalize. Jackson scores ANY of the myriad chances where he’s 1 on 1 with the keeper and Palace’s fight and enthusiasm is killed dead. And it’s not even like he’s forcing the keeper into brilliant saves with these chances. He’s missing the fucking target completely! He is NOT a Chelsea level main #9, simple as that. If Isak or Haaland or Osimhen had those chances today that Nico had they’d have a hat trick.

Nicolas Jackson straight up cost us the 3 points today. Through 1 on 1 with the keeper about 5 times and fluffed his lines every single time. I just do not understand how we go from comfortable and dominant for most of the first half to looking completely out of ideas and dead on our feet the second half. With the form of everyone around us compared to ours I don’t feel confident at all anymore that we’ll finish in the top 4. Which a month ago seemed impossible.

Jackson’s finishing may cost us top 4 ultimately. Come the fuck on!

Every single TINY bit of contact and Palace get a free kick. We have a clear penalty not given…

That was 100% a pen. Clear as fucking day on VAR. How do you fucking miss that?!

Palace playing like vintage Stoke just lumping it forward to a huge CF. Just like Ipswich did. And it’s actually effective once again.

Has looked very comfortable in the ball so far and hasn’t panicked at all so yes.

Hopefully we aren’t punished harshly for not finishing all these chances…

Both Neto and Sancho have been awesome so far.

Don’t care how ugly it looks, don’t care how it happens. We MUST win. Anything less and we are in crisis.

We absolutely need another CB this month then. Or a defender of some kind. Because I never want to see Disasi playing in a blue shirt again.

Tbh, the only way I can see us bringing in anyone this month is if this terrible run of form we’re in continues this weekend and we panic buy someone. I just can’t see any big target of ours like Delap being available when Ipswich need him to have a chance of staying up. I can see a few fringe players leaving but in terms of incoming I’m not expecting anyone. Which may be for the best if we would just buy someone just to have an extra body. I’d rather buy nobody than another Disasi or Badiashile. If we look hopeless in the final third for the next couple of matches I wonder if the ownership will break the Osimhen glass and pay his release clause, though… 🤔

Feels like just yesterday we were 4 points ahead of Arse and they were panicking that Saka would be out long term. Now we’re in danger of them running away from us again…

True, the wages may be a no-go if he’s still asking for silly money. But I wonder how happy is is in Turkey playing in a league nobody cares about? He looks like he’s enjoying it well enough when I see clips of him scoring. But maybe he’d jump at the chance of coming to the PL if we tried again and lowered his demands? Who knows. I’d love Delap. Especially after what we saw from him yesterday. But Ipswich would guarantee their relegation if they sold him next month and he doesn’t seem like the sort of lad who would abandon them. But we BADLY need a striker with a totally different profile to Nico. I love the look of Guiu but he’s far too young and raw to be an important player in the league yet.

I wonder if it’s even a slim possibility we go back in for Osimhen or if that ship has sailed. He’s got a set price now, right?

Every single one of our attackers has gone completely off the boil simultaneously. Madueke started the season on fire and has been woeful for the most part since his supposed “coming out party” against Wolves with that hat trick. Sancho was really solid his first handful of matches but has now retreated into his shell. Neto tries hard at least but hasn’t been effective. Even Palmer has only really shown small flashes of quality during this shit run.

The most annoying thing about that game is that Ipswich did basically NOTHING as a team and won 2-0. Just Delap running around like a maniac by himself and bullying our CB’s single-handedly. They didn’t pass it around and press us like Fulham did, they didn’t smack in a hundred crosses and threaten from corners, they didn’t destroy us on the counter. They seriously just had 1 single striker running and hoping for a mistake from our defense and waiting to pounce. And we obliged.

The Chelsea of last season is well and truly back. They tricked us into thinking we genuinely turned a corner, but no. Dominate the run of play, can’t score to save our lives, and then utterly shambolic defending at the other end resulting in us being punished for EVERY little mistake. And this doesn’t look like a small blip, either. We well and truly have looked shattered and completely devoid of ideas out there these last 3 matches. ZERO attacking quality in the final third at all apart from the odd Palmer shot from distance. We’re in trouble now. Losing and failing to score against a side who have leaked goals all season, had ZERO wins at home, and 2 wins all season. Humiliating. What looked like a comfortable place in the top 4 before now looks like well fighting desperately just to scrape 4th by the end of the season.

The penalty decision and instant VAR check was absurd. Jorgensen avoided him well and Delap dangles his leg out behind him and drags it into the keeper. That’s never a pen.

Much as I was a fan of and was super excited when we signed Nkunku, he just doesn’t look right for this team. He just kind of casually jogs around doing hardly anything. He needs to be replaced next month if possible. Best for both parties. Replace him with an actual, natural striker. One who preferably runs their socks off and makes themself a menace like Delap has today.

Being terrorized by literally a SINGLE player.

You CANNOT be fucking offside there, ffs. Looking straight down the line.

Absolutely unacceptable performance once again. What the actual fuck are we doing?!

Btw, Maresca said I think BEFORE the Everton game that Lavia was just about ready to return. Then said before Fulham that he was doing great and almost ready. Now he’s out still. 🤬🤬🤬 Wtf is wrong with this kid?! He’s 20 years old and gets injured like he’s 40!

Fine with everything except for being nervous about Disasi at RB as usual. Felix & Nkunku HAVE to have big performances here. Show the manager why you deserve to be playing more.