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Didn't realise that he's right footed. Howe really loves a right footed winger.

A slight nod on someones forehead or a very careful slap on someones face is deemed violent conduct, and often results in a red. However, deliberately swinging an elbow with power into someones face when they are going full speed, so that they need to be carried out on a stretcher, is not violent conduct? No VAR intervention here.. The ref didn't even give a free kick btw.

Was funny when he told both players to "knock it off" after Morata held Burn with both arms and hoyed him to the ground when he was trying to simply trying run around him. As if it was an equal tussle between the two.

I think most expect him to do better with time. Currently he looks like a player that does a lot better when we are playing for counters than in games like these. That doesn't mean that I think he will struggle in gamestates like this all season. There's a difference between stating what you see right now and making a prediction on the future.

Pope 1 off 2 extra points ffs..

Palace first loss in 19 or something.

Chelsea had an xG of 1.22 yesterday. For those who watched the game, this is where in some games xG really doesn't tell the truth. They should have scored more than 2.

Plays like that nearly every game. You can see why Tuchel loves him already.

On the counter yes.

Hope he can be something more than just a counter attack weapon for us.

No way you were winning that header Bruno..

Burn needed to get told that he needs to stop letting himself get held back by Morata.

Another knee injury, great.

Did we have a shot yet?

A fullback and a CM, then we are stacked in depth.

Was our best player for a while last year.

Here is a different angle. Watch on x, because the quality is shit on the forum.

Wilson often started scoring the week after he was back from his injury spells.

So Wissa won't be fit at all before AFCON then? He missed pre season plus the first 3 months.

How long does it take to get fit? We had the same discussion all the time when he was here. Discussing whether he was fit or not. Apart from certain runs where he scored loads, ofcourse.

On a side note Wolte is currently doing a lot more than Pedro. Apart from that game against a horrible West Ham defence.

I thought that "champions win in extra time", not lose? What happened? Where's the "that's what champions does!!" now?

Think he was a doubt for this game.

Sanchez is going to gift them a goal at some point.

Xhaka was an odd one. Isn't he way better than the rest of their players?