joeyt

Late shift at Nissan I assume tonight

Do we reckon there's a reason every team is making us kick the opposite way when winning the toss? Or just to throw us out of our rhythm? I've been going to SJP for about 25 years and never known it to be happening so often. Is it just us it's happening to or are all away captains being instructed to make the home team switch sides?

And that was without any fans there

We've won once there in 11 years

Bruno played at the base of midfield in the 4th place season despite Shelvey being here for the first half of that

I guess that's where we miss Trippier and Botman being able to play the ball between the lines. Their replacements aren't as good with their passing

He's pretty much always played as the deepest lying centre mid here

Feel like we're always trash at Selhurst Park

It looked to me like Murphy was given the instruction to just cross the ball into the box at every opportunity.

I thought Soler and Paqueta just completely ran the midfield second half

We've done well recently with Tonali coming off the bench and playing as the deepest centre mid and allowing Bruno to play slightly higher up as the game has gone on. Thought we'd see that yesterday but we just went a flat 2 of Bruno and Tonali and it was suicide

I always predict Newcastle to lose and this week I didn't Serves me right

reeled some in

It's a pattern though that we've not played well for a lot of the season. Only really Arsenal and Forest where I'd say we've played well for a whole game

I'm not saying he's the answer but taking out that amount of assists and not replacing them can certainly be a reason we aren't scoring many Our set pieces are pretty dreadful and our crossing yesterday was absolutely abysmal.

Just had a look. Trippier got 10 assists from 28 PL games last season which is pretty incredible. 7 the season before Tino hasn't got any for us yet I don't think in the league

For all the criticism he's got we haven't replaced Trippier's assists either I like Tino but his attacking output isn't anywhere near Trippier's for us

Another unexpected Fabianski clean sheet for me this week

Sell all our best players, sounds a good strategy

He barely played there tonight

Wat

That second half was as bad as anything we've seen at SJP in his time here.

Alain Goma

Finishing third in a 2 horse race is incredibly impressive

Cheers Geoff