Dandy Man

A good night generally. Upcoming fixtures not bad for us either with Norwich having a couple of highly probable losses coming up and Palace next four being Brentford/Chelsea/Watford/Burnley, there's not too many scenarios where we come out particularly badly - especially if we can get points off Villa/West Ham before going to Brentford.

Class on his day but those days much fewer and far between these days. He's nowhere near as widely liked by Palace fans as he once was, used to be their talisman.

Zaha gone at the game and Palace are shite

Norwich are going to be dropping back down so enough, I don't think they can maintain this. But Palace do look shite here, they've accumulated a lot of points at home against weak teams and Viera is looking increasingly lost to me, reckon they are bang in the relegation fight in a few weeks time

Some textbook when good Bielsa goes bad this

Fairly end to end stuff this Villa match

Mental challenge from the Brentford defender to give that pen away

Zaha looks so gone at the game, hard to get away with his attitude when the ability has gone south

Palace play Brentford next too so more or less guaranteed at least one of them gets dragged into it if Norwich win and Brentford don't get any unlikely points off City tonight. We've got momentum and they're in decline, the more teams in the quagmire the better. Still prefer a Palace win though

Didn't take long lol. Said in other thread that can easily see Palace getting drawn into the relegation scrap so not convinced a Norwich win is a total disaster.

Feel that Norwich are going to beat Palace. Palace going to need Zaha/Ayew coming back to improve them but they've been shite away generally.

He's been doing well lately but he's still a liability when the chips are down and it will take a lot to convince me otherwise. Was a shocking tackle, there were a couple of little needly incidents leading up to it which the crowd had reacted to and he got stupidly carried away imo, away from home that's definitely a red more often than not. One positive is that he's becoming more sellable if he keeps playing like this I suppose.

We were never much shorter than a shade of odds on for all of January pretty much. Current odds of 9/4-5/2 would make us a great bet to go down if the 6/10 and 7/10 scores on here are to be believed.

He is definitely struggling at the moment and he is never going to be a long term solution but I think he has been playing a more important role in the team than people are willing to give him credit for. He gives us a focal point in attack and even if a lot of the headers he wins are relatively inconsequential it prevents the opposition easily getting control of errant long balls and bringing it out on the floor easily, most importantly he helps to create a bit more space for ASM to work in. If ASM stays fit, I think we will generally find a way to score even if Wood is not doing the scoring.

I like him a lot, he is never going to set the world alight but he gives it 100% every time and does the basics well. Will need to be upgraded on in the medium to long term but for the time being we need characters like him in the team, as mentioned above he also looks to have quickly developed a good understanding with Trippier

Aye I noticed that on TV, he was desperate to get on for ages

Woke the baby up when that free kick went in, with my shouting (not so she could get up and see the goal)

2.5 seems about right now, assuming we continue to build on these performances and barring any injuries to key players we will be fine

How far over the hill is Seamus Coleman too? Knew he was in decline but fuck me he would struggle to keep pace back in the League of Ireland.

So weird seeing the whole team putting in a massive shift and not blowing out their arses after 60 mins too

Howe backed the lads to deliver and deliver they did. Everton are horrific mind.

Not sure what to make of that but we're the better team, if we improve in 2nd half as did against Leeds then we've got this. Bruno or no Bruno, the sooner Shelvey fucks off the better.

Surprised more people aren't upset that Longstaff is missing out tbh

Would have preferred to see Bruno start obviously but can see the logic given he's had a whirlwind last week or so. If it turns out to be a mistake then Howe deserves criticism but if it works out and we get a win hopefully people will allow him some credit, we're still well up to winning this imo

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