closed Crystal Palace 0-1 Chelsea

[communicate 2,703]

1 minute ago, Vybz Kartel said:

True but those injuries are from his lack of rotation. Muscle injuries like hamstrings can be easily avoided if he rotates the players well. I'm not saying rotate the whole side but systematic rotation would have helped massively 

Cho barely played, Pedro rotate with Willian. Your argument has 0 weight

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Just now, Johnnyeye said:

Huge 3 points considering Spurs and Arse droped points, but man do we look clueless in the final third, if not for Kante's brilliant goal from a great Luiz pass it would have been a boring draw or worse. We need major upgrades, William, Alonso, Giroud, Morata are not good enough, im sorry but that is the truth.

And at AMF. We simply need another consistent goal scorer there. Unless RLC goes on a tear or Kovacic finally figures out how to go full on attack and shoot.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, Johnnyeye said:

Huge 3 points considering Spurs and Arse droped points, but man do we look clueless in the final third, if not for Kante's brilliant goal from a great Luiz pass it would have been a boring draw or worse. We need major upgrades, William, Alonso, Giroud, Morata are not good enough, im sorry but that is the truth.

It looks like Sarri would rather lose his job than bench Alonso, even when his on a yellow card and being spun around like a figet spinner. On the bright side Kante stepped up and thanks to him we didn't draw. He was really active in the final 3rd

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, communicate said:

Cho barely played, Pedro rotate with Willian. Your argument has 0 weight

Pedro and Willian have started the last 5 games prior to today with Willian virtually having started all our games in December. I won't be surprised if he picks up a muscle injury soon 

[Special Juan 28,096]

Need credit for this instead of moaning about stuff, we ground out a great result here and it was a massive 3 points.

People need to forget the league and focus on the the top 4 perspective. 

Kante was immense today.

[Jase 43,479]

Important win but again, another uneventful performance. A lot of passes (again), little penetration (again) but scored thanks to one moment of quality. Palace were surprisingly hopeless. 

[Johnnyeye 7,501]

2 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

It looks like Sarri would rather lose his job than bench Alonso, even when his on a yellow card and being spun around like a figet spinner. On the bright side Kante stepped up and thanks to him we didn't draw. He was really active in the final 3rd

Kante's awareness and anticipation for Luiz pass was out of this world, the movement, control and finish is what you expect from a top striker, what a goal. Kante has that is his locker besides his defending no doubt about that and i understand what Sarri wants out of him, otherwise he wouldnt play Kante so advanced

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

5 minutes ago, communicate said:

Completely agree. Should have rotated our front 3. Oops Pedro, Cho, and rlc are injured. What is his option? 

He could have taken Barkley off earlier before we lost control of the game. Also I don't know why he didn't even trust Piazon or Redan from the academy on the bench as cover for today. We fucken had 4 defenders on the bench today. He should trust our youth more or in Piazon's case why the fuck are we paying him to be a training cone?? I'm sure he would have been able to contribute 

[Pizy 18,852]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

Important win but again, another uneventful performance. A lot of passes (again), little penetration (again) but scored thanks to one moment of quality. Palace were surprisingly hopeless. 

Palace are even more reliant on Zaha magic than we are Hazard. This is now both matches against Palace this season where Azpi has pocketed him. Since he was unable to do anything Palace were relegation quality.

Cant remember Kepa even touching to ball with his hands other than claiming easy crosses.

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14 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

I blame Sarri for this he doesn't rotate well, add that to him waiting till min 72 to make a forced substitutition of course they are gassed considering it's the Christmas period 

Eden and Azpi have to just be worn the fuck out! They are asked to do herculean tasks

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, Pizy said:

Palace are even more reliant on Zaha magic than we are Hazard. This is now both matches against Palace this season where Azpi has pocketed him. Since he was unable to do anything Palace were relegation quality.

Cant remember Kepa even touching to ball with his hands other than claiming easy crosses.

But Palace didn't even bother to have a go at us. Just looked content to sit back and defend. Even the last 5-10 minutes of pressure wasn't a real, sustained pressure. They were just hoping for something to fall their way, like the Wickham chance (thankfully he skied the shot!).

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Nice to have a gap! Hopefully can keep it for a while. 

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

Important win but again, another uneventful performance. A lot of passes (again), little penetration (again) but scored thanks to one moment of quality. Palace were surprisingly hopeless. 

Let's be honest, we are seeing some Conteball performances more often than we see Sarriball of late. I thinkin need to get rid of the deadwood and get Safri guys who fit his philosophy. Jorginho and Kepa are a step in the right direction, can you imagine us trying to play out from the back during a high press with Courtios and the crew from last season? Currently we are fitting square pegs in round holes and I feel that's why Sarri's methods have been up and down 

[communicate 2,703]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

Important win but again, another uneventful performance. A lot of passes (again), little penetration (again) but scored thanks to one moment of quality. Palace were surprisingly hopeless. 

This is probably the more concerning problem. It has been like this for quite a while. We look to be in control but it was just sideway pass after sideway pass. Need to pass the ball with more speed and we definitely need a new striker 

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

2 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Nice to have a gap! Hopefully can keep it for a while. 

With our next 6 fixtures we really should be challenging Liverpool by end of February if we were consistent and could put on a 6-10 win streak but unfortunately we seem to always relax after winning 3/4 games straight and we always lose this breaking our momentum