David Edgar

Not as good at striking a ball, but he has the directness and pace.

You just know there will be half a dozen such incidents at the weekend which VAR won't care about. Our players need to make sure that they lie down and hold their heads if they get so much as brushed in the box.

Yeah, that's a really good shout. Must register super high XG for that when the reality was it was never going to threaten the goal with Tino so close and on it.

Props to the bloke in the crowd who reached out a hand and prevented that wild Isak miss in the first half from smashing into the woman next to him.

It was "standards" and "expectations" I noticed

He was incredible. As everyone has said, he progressed the ball effortlessly all evening. Even when Palace were pressing him with intensity. He'd just dribble through, play a quick simple pass wide or hit a Beckham-esc 70 yarder and we'd be on our way through the press. But his best ever game was years ago against prime Vardy. Schar had one of those games where he just decided that he was just gonna dominate absolutely everything all game. Like some MJ "I took that personally" scenario where he wasn't gonna allow Vardy to even take a sip of Red Bull... He spent 90 minutes chewing over Vardy until there was nothing left.

I am sure that Howe is hating every second of it Well, not the result. Just the complete inability to be involved.

Loved that you could hear him literally dictating our passing around the back throughout the second half. The man is a pure leader and tactician.

Didn't feel at all like this. Murphy goal must've been like 0.01 Isak goal must've been 0.01 too Barnes goal would've been low as well as he shot from wide on his weaker foot Erm, dunno how OGs are calculated in this Schar's from the middle of the goal must've been 0.2ish? So yeah, I can see the low XG for us. Palace got a massive bump from the penalty. 0.75 alone for that. Dunno where the rest of their 2.22 came from. Didn't feel like they had any threating chances?

We'd absolutely do this Real Madrid team right now

Kante-esc.

Merino doing it in the CL. Rafa knew.

About bloody time we've gone ahead of the over-performing Notts Forest.

Let's just forget about Longstaff and play Miley.

Sigh

Some drop off in quality here. Dunno why Barnes has to swap wings.

Trippier bullying the poor kid

Dumb but Bruno.

Commentary said they decided it was reckless eventually. Which meant playing the ball didn't matter. It was not reckless.

They gave it at first thinking Pope didn't touch it. When they realised he did, they changed their mind on the type of foul so the touch on the ball didn't matter. Ridiculous.

Pope clattered. No foul.

Broken the Palace press every which way. Honestly been world class.

Booking Burn is moronic.

What a fucking goal awahahahahaha

Isak