Dwight Gayle (now playing for Derby County)

[Paully]

For us (when clearly not fit during the time he played after Brentford away last season and at the start of this season);

 

A goal every 93 mins in the Championship

 

A goal every 216 mins in the Premier League

 

 

 

[Gallowgate Toon]

He will get goals in the division as long as things are set up for him.

[Dave]

Surprisingly poor after the weekend's game. Maybe he needs Joselu up with him.

[Zero]

Surprisingly poor after the weekend's game. Maybe he needs Joselu up with him.

That's why we went for 442.

[Dr.Spaceman]

Surprisingly poor after the weekend's game. Maybe he needs Joselu up with him.

 

Mohammed Diame.

[TRon]

Surprisingly poor after the weekend's game. Maybe he needs Joselu up with him.

 

Mohammed Diame.

 

I think Diame was brought in to shore us up defensively because we've conceded a lot of goals with the 442. It worked, but then Darlow handed them a goal from nowhere.

[Hanshithispantz]

Thought he did a couple of things well and was otherwise out of the game with everyone else. His link up play isn't too bad.

[Lush Vlad]

I thought he had no service, but when the ball was played into him, he regularly lost it or ran into trouble.  Had one good moment on the left in the second half, but anonymous bar that.

[Optimistic Nut]

Looked decent in the highlights but could see the reaction if Joselu had hit the bar from 7 yards and blazed another good chance high and wide.

[Mikky]

Looked decent in the highlights but could see the reaction if Joselu had hit the bar from 7 yards and blazed another good chance high and wide.

 

Watched the whole game and I thought Gayle and Joselu were poor tbh

We need a couple of CFs

 

There was an instance in the 2nd half were we put 3/4 really decent balls into the box and neither made any effort to get to the cross

[Guest neesy111]

Looked decent in the highlights but could see the reaction if Joselu had hit the bar from 7 yards and blazed another good chance high and wide.

 

Watched the whole game and I thought Gayle and Joselu were poor tbh

We need a couple of CFs

 

There was an instance in the 2nd half were we put 3/4 really decent balls into the box and neither made any effort to get to the cross

Can't judge the strikers performance from that one instance.  Motd showed loads of times them trying to get into the box.

[aussiemag]

Gayle has played much better the last 6 weeks or so. His link up play and work off the ball have really stood out for me. He’ll start finishing those chances off soon.

[huss9]

good hold up play for ritchie's shot, and great ball on the counter leading up to the third goal.

[Happinesstan]

Looked decent in the highlights but could see the reaction if Joselu had hit the bar from 7 yards and blazed another good chance high and wide.

 

Gayle has scored 26 goals for us, in 45 games, (according to wiki) and therefore has a well established reputation in our minds. Joselu was given a lot of credit in his first game, for getting into 3 goalscoring positions. He has since begun to develop an unfortunate reputation as a shoit finisher.

 

Josleu is now developing a reputation for other positive things now, and I can see him getting a bit more respite going forward.

 

 

 

[Lush Vlad]

His movement is usually decent. West Ham pushed up a lot higher once be went off and they didn’t respect Perez at all. Obviously we naturally sat a bit deeper, as well. But I don’t think it is a coincidence that we look a lot more threatening with him in the side.

 

We still need to get a new striker. But for ‘winnable’ games this season. He is probably our best option, currently.

[Infinitely Content]

His hold up ability has been surprisingly good I think, what has been lacking is his usually composed finishes. Some really poor efforts from him yesterday leaning back when a touch of a composure would have seen him with a brace. We still look more dangerous with him on the pitch though, so until we get that much needed better striker, Gayle/Joselu is probably what it will be.

[DJ_NUFC]

Why were the home fans booing him when he was being taken off? Is there some kind of shit rivalry between Palace and west ham?

[Interpolic]

Why were the home fans booing him when he was being taken off? Is there some kind of shit rivalry between Palace and west ham?

Think it was just because he was taking his time.

[Heron]

Really? I just presumed it's cause West Ham are cunts.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

His hold up play has surprised me this season, he’s actually not too bad in that expect. I think the way we played away to West Ham, he would get a decent number of goals.

[Doctor Zaius]

Absolutely bottled our best chance of the match tonight. Clean through and went down. Championship level striker, yet I'd still start him V Brighton, which says it all.

[Yorkie]

Aye I think he let himself down there a bit.

[nemtizz]

Decent effort, IMO. We'd all be sucking him off had he won the pen and we scored it. Just embarrassing when you get caught.

[triggs]

He wasn't clean through, Fernandinho was back. There was a decent chance he was going to get taken down but Danilo did well

[John P]

Looked like the was contact around his knee to me. Not enough to go down and he was looking for it, but they've been given before.