TK-421 Posted Thursday at 07:30 Share Posted Thursday at 07:30 Before last night, I thought I'd misheard a stat that said we'd won 18 of our last 23 games, and it must just be 18 unbeaten. Nope it was right, and its 19 Wins in our last 24 games now, and our last draw was the 3-3 with Liverpool up here. Unreal run we are on, but, arguably at the right time of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted Thursday at 07:35 Share Posted Thursday at 07:35 (edited) . Edited Thursday at 07:38 by duo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted Thursday at 07:41 Share Posted Thursday at 07:41 Did Palace fans reel off their hipster St Pauli-esque continental chants songbook last night? Couldn’t hear them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted Thursday at 07:50 Share Posted Thursday at 07:50 8 minutes ago, Nucasol said: Did Palace fans reel off their hipster St Pauli-esque continental chants songbook last night? Couldn’t hear them. They just sang some generic stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted Thursday at 07:52 Share Posted Thursday at 07:52 This season all feels a little unreal at the moment and things have really come together for us at the key points of the season. The Villa match is going to be a slogger of a game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leemond Posted Thursday at 07:52 Share Posted Thursday at 07:52 23 minutes ago, Gazzaschicken said: It was reckless by Pope, he committed and missed taking out their player. You just can't do that. He didn't need to do that either BJL would have cleared it. Not a pen, fyi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted Thursday at 07:53 Share Posted Thursday at 07:53 Just now, NG32 said: This season all feels a little unreal at the moment and things have really come together for us at the key points of the season. The Villa match is going to be a slogger of a game. They’ll be mentally jaded after the PSG game. Our big guns had the luxury of coming off early. But yeah should be some game. 3 points please Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BergenMagpie Posted Thursday at 07:54 Share Posted Thursday at 07:54 One of my lowest points as a supporter was when an @Alan Pardew-led Palace crushed us 5-1, and pards trying to be the big man and be nice about it in the post-match interview This win counters that day and its lovely to see pards being in a state where getting an invitation from talksport makes his month and palace being back to being shite. Checked their board and they seem to dislike us as much as everton/villa. Fuck em Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted Thursday at 07:59 Share Posted Thursday at 07:59 17 minutes ago, Nucasol said: Did Palace fans reel off their hipster St Pauli-esque continental chants songbook last night? Couldn’t hear them. I thought they were pretty good despite the numbers and the score Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted Thursday at 08:00 Share Posted Thursday at 08:00 Teams still turning us around at kick off and now it's making absolutely no difference Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted Thursday at 08:03 Share Posted Thursday at 08:03 10 minutes ago, Leemond said: Not a pen, fyi. And everyone was outraged that it wasn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted Thursday at 08:13 Share Posted Thursday at 08:13 (edited) 2 hours ago, Heron said: I think the sample applies the other way though. I don't think it's entirely luck for a striker to step up and hit it hard with accuracy from 12 yards. Adding complications to the run up is adding opportunity to fail, and we seem to see these kind of fails fairly regularly, and they're embarrassing. There must be analytics on this stuff confirming Pata is correct. Too many players are adopting this approach for it not to be the case. Personally hate it and it makes it even harder for the keeper than it already is. The stop start ones should be banned I reckon. Like everything though. Coaches and keepers will adapt to it. Like Pope did last night. He isn’t very good at saving pens historically I don’t think. Even his old man says his brother is better at them but FWIW. He stopped Toney’s run of consecutive pens when he didn’t flinch for his ‘look at the keeper’ slow run up. Edited Thursday at 08:14 by Lush Vlad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted Thursday at 08:15 Share Posted Thursday at 08:15 I just think it’s strange to invent a new and complicated approach to something which is already really easy for the attacker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Broon Posted Thursday at 08:16 Share Posted Thursday at 08:16 38 minutes ago, Gazzaschicken said: It was reckless by Pope, he committed and missed taking out their player. You just can't do that. He didn't need to do that either BJL would have cleared it. The ref must have seen that and judged it not to be in the moment. VAR shouldn't intervene unless it's a clear and obvious error, the issue for VAR would be whether Pope got a touch on the ball or not, there was an angle where it looked like he did and others where it looked like he didn't. They shouldn't have intervened because it wasn't clear and obvious whether he got the ball or not and when the ref reviewed it he wasn't shown the angle where it looked like Pope got something on the ball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted Thursday at 08:18 Share Posted Thursday at 08:18 If it was two players jumping for a header, it wouldn't even have been checked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovagod Posted Thursday at 08:18 Share Posted Thursday at 08:18 23 minutes ago, BergenMagpie said: One of my lowest points as a supporter was when an @Alan Pardew-led Palace crushed us 5-1, and pards trying to be the big man and be nice about it in the post-match interview This win counters that day and its lovely to see pards being in a state where getting an invitation from talksport makes his month and palace being back to being shite. Checked their board and they seem to dislike us as much as everton/villa. Fuck em Remember that down in the concourse that day there was a group of lads chanting about ISIS and the IRA. A particularly grim day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted Thursday at 08:38 Share Posted Thursday at 08:38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyboy Posted Thursday at 08:44 Share Posted Thursday at 08:44 I thought that Bruno was inconspicuous tonight but what a great result Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted Thursday at 09:00 Share Posted Thursday at 09:00 44 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said: He isn’t very good at saving pens historically I don’t think. Even his old man says his brother is better at them but FWIW. He stopped Toney’s run of consecutive pens when he didn’t flinch for his ‘look at the keeper’ slow run up. I feel Pope is pretty good at penalties, I'm sure he's won us a couple of shootouts and he definitely won one at SJP when he was at Burnley I've got more confidence in him saving a penalty than any other keeper we've had I think (although remember Darlow saving 2 in one game) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted Thursday at 09:04 Share Posted Thursday at 09:04 I don’t think Pope got the credit he deserved for that pen save at the time last night - the focus seemed to be on Eze. I suppose that’s the issue with those slow walk pens and baiting the keeper to move. If it goes wrong it looks terrible. I don’t think that little movement Pope did just before the kick was an accident and Eze has bought it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted Thursday at 09:09 Share Posted Thursday at 09:09 50 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: I just think it’s strange to invent a new and complicated approach to something which is already really easy for the attacker. At the risk of sounding like my dad, you really just need to hit it hard and on target. The silly jump run-up seems like an ego thing or for players trying to show that they have “aura” (as the kids say). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted Thursday at 09:14 Share Posted Thursday at 09:14 29 minutes ago, jackyboy said: I thought that Bruno was inconspicuous tonight but what a great result nah, watch it back. loads of important little passes - not hollywood - but essential. he was much better after a very slight blip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzy Posted Thursday at 09:16 Share Posted Thursday at 09:16 1 hour ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: I just think it’s strange to invent a new and complicated approach to something which is already really easy for the attacker. Ivan Toney had the best approach. Slow run up, wait for the keeper to move and put it where's he isnt. Even if the keeper doesn't move you just put it either side of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted Thursday at 09:21 Share Posted Thursday at 09:21 I had what looked like 2 Chinese students sitting next to me and they buggered off before HT and didn't return. Didn't know I smelled that badly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted Thursday at 09:22 Share Posted Thursday at 09:22 we were utterly magnificent the way we dispatched them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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