Crystal Palace 1-2 Watford FC - 12/01/2019

Discussion in 'Match Day' started by Clive_ofthe_Kremlin, Jan 9, 2019.

  1. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    Gotta love the guy.....wearing a GT badge.


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  2. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    And Elton is a Palarse beanie hat!
     
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  3. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Yet again, some excellent saves from Foster.

    Supreme catlike stop from their Serbian chap.

    Equal PotS with about 5 others?
     
  4. Roger Irrelevant

    Roger Irrelevant Reservist

    Unfortunately there are 3 worse teams than them but can see them getting 17th. Think they'll struggle next year without Wan Bissaka who is destined for better things. Zaha is becoming bang average.
     
  5. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    As said before, Zaha is good but not great. Man Utd bought him and sold him back pretty quickly afterwards. Palace would demand too high a fee for any team outside of the big six to afford. He'll only leave them if they get relegated or he gets too old.
     
  6. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    and shirt by the look of it!
     
  7. Markoa$

    Markoa$ Squad Player

    Looking at their remaining fixtures, there is a good chance they will go down.
     
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  8. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Good win, even if the performance wasn’t quite what we’ve come to expect this year.

    I’ve withheld judgement on Sema to this point, but he was tragically out of his depth today. As others have mentioned, there appears to be glimpses of a player in there somewhere, by today he was so poor that I felt sorry for him. The number of times attack’s broke down because he killed all momentum and then lost the ball was incredibly frustrating. Taking him off was absolutely the right decision. He’s made a big jump to the EPL, and I’m happy with him being around the squad to give him time to develop, but today was shocking.

    Sign a decent center back, a clinical forward and another option out wide and we’d be laughing. Continues to be a great season for us. To think we were favorites for the drop in many eyes!
     
  9. We are only 3 games into the second half of the season. Surely the remaining fixtures are pretty similar for everyone?
     
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  10. Markoa$

    Markoa$ Squad Player

    I know, it was a joke.
     
  11. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    I’m not certain but the radio said something about him pushing our medic (not sure how hard) in response to being told he can’t continue.

    I respect his desire to play for us but if it’s true he did that with intent it’s nit like him. As I said, nothing else I have heard confirms this. Maybe somebody at the game saw something?
     
  12. bedmond_hornet

    bedmond_hornet First Year Pro

    They showed him pushing the medic on live TV. He’s desperate to play, I have no issues with it what so ever.
     
  13. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    I doubt we'd even be in the same division if Silva had stayed!
     
  14. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

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  15. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Got to say, my POTS at this stage is one from Capoue, Cathcart, Holebas, Sema and Foster.

    Capoue was poor yesterday and Cathcart had a Stinker recently.

    Jose is probably my MVP this season. I think over the summer it was universally accepted that we needed a replacement at left back because he was so slow, incompeteny and generally dislikeable. Now I'd say he's one of 2 or 3 who we simply cannot be without
     
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  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I can see a China or Middle East move for him. Being a flat track bully in a **** league for massive money is about the only next step for him
     
  17. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    It looked like that on tv. He was being spoken to but kept shoving the medic. Obviously didn't want to come off and to be fair to him, he was playing well with his concussion.

    Unfortunately it was a contagious concussion and it passed immediately to Sema when he came on and he played his game like he had been hit with a mallet
     
  18. zztop

    zztop Eurovision Winner 2015

    What a cracking win that was! The sort of result we would not have got in the past few seasons, battling on and solid defending in the last half hour against a team with clear attacking strength. Brilliant.

    Was Doucs injured, he seemed to be struggling a bit? A good game from Deeney and was really pleased to see him gamble at the near post again for the Dele(?) cross in the 2nd half, disappointed that he fluffed his shot when it seemed easier to score. And Dele worked his socks off, big miss early on though and I sense he is one frustrated player, both with himself and his team-mates. I thought our defenders did well against a talented attack.

    But I still think that even our current squad/team is not playing anywhere near their ability/potential. The amount of fundamental/elementary mistakes we make is so frustrating, some of it was lower league level stuff. We keep giving that ball away needlessly, we are missing too many chances and we keep wasting set pieces, even our ball control/first touch kept letting us down today. It is the same issues every week but we are 7th, and that is due to that when our players are not messing things up, they are capable of really good, if not exceptional play. We need to work on getting a higher level of consistency in my mind. It is easy to believe that those mistakes are the reason they are not world class players and that this is as good as they get, but I don't believe that, I think Gracia has got us at around 75% of our potential at this time.

    I think that we can all accept now that Gracia is pretty limited in his tactical thinking, or maybe that is more about being cautious. But as an example, the first sub bringing on Sema was wrong I felt, but when Sema was so poor on the right, why not try him on the left where Pererya was dominated by their right back AWB, allowing Pereyra more freedom inside and moving Dele to the right? At least AWB would have been wasted marking a poor player. We are very predictable.

    After such a satisfying result, I'm not being negative though, I'm just think that if we merely look at our match performances (and not our league position) then I think we can do so much better.

    And that has to be a positive!
     
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  19. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    The stream showed him resisting being subbed, but I didn't see the incident that caused the head injury and it wasn't covered on MOTD
     
  20. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Sema?
     
  21. brinnyboy1985

    brinnyboy1985 First Year Pro

    I think you’re being far too harsh, especially on JG’s tactical understanding. The shape and discipline we have is very noticeable and it’s clear how he wants us to play.

    Most teams in Prem2 have similar quality to us, It’s just that we have been more consistent and JG has to be given the credit for that.
     
  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Careful or you will be whooshed !
     
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  23. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Both will happen.
     
  24. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    About time someone got to grips with the notorious Colney Gang.

    Make Burke & Hare seem like the Carry On team.
     
  25. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    JG comes across as measured & cautious.

    He has managed 11 teams in 14 years. He won’t have left all of them voluntarily & WFC is a big break for him so a safety first approach is understandable.

    Having said this, my impression is that he is making changes more quickly now than at the start of the season as he establishes himself.
     
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  26. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Maybe Moog’s P stands for potatohead.
     
  27. Mollyboo

    Mollyboo First Year Pro

    Our set piece play could be improved immediately by allowing Deulofeu to take corners.

    Seems an odd thing to say seeing as our equaliser came from one excellent Holebas delivery, but he put in a lot of dross yesterday.

    I never get excited at the prospect of a Holebas corner - my first thought isn't 'we might score', it's 'have we got enough defenders back?'

    I also like the idea of Holebas on the edge of the box ready to receive the corner instead of Deulofeu.
     
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  28. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Pillock?
     
  29. King Dev

    King Dev Squad Player

    It's not like him!? Whenever I see him play he's an absolute **** to the opposition. It's exactly like him.
     
  30. Sahorn

    Sahorn Reservist

    The media pundit emperors are still wearing their new clothes.

    They can't see what is obvious to we small boy Watford fans, they're all naked.. :eek:o_O:confused: :D


    (apologies to emoji haters)
     
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  31. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Would make a handsome trophy.
     
  32. Oops! Whoosh!!! :oops:
     
  33. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I have few accomplishments but smug is something I am quite competent at!
    I would say my rating at present is 8.5/10!
    I must apologise to the toothless,in more ways than one,Palace steward who Dave and I gave an earful to at half time. She was clearly out of her depth and had no instruction from her superiors.
    I now feel sorry for her but still angry that that place is very,very dangerous.
    COYH!
     
  34. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    The number of goals from corners these days is small & also the number from open play crosses is rapidly in decline.

    In this context, Holebas’ six assists is outstanding. Same as Bobby, one more than Del.
     
  35. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    The Whoosh Magnet is another who has not graced these pages for a while.

    Dead or now supporting Spurs?
     

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