Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford FC - 18/03/2017

We are quite bad.

 

We are one abysmal team.

 

I worry about the way we are playing. And the team selection. We have 2 up front and we look like we might score. Deeney on his own we aint no good. But Wally still does it. There still may be 3 worse teams than us at the end but its touch and go now.

 

Awful.

I have to say that even I'm starting to have my doubts about Mazzarri now. That was absolutely abysmal.

Amrabat clearly was nowhere near fit - why play him? Success should have come on when Amrabat did.

I'm fed up with big man Deeney and his blind flick ons through to their keeper or nobody at all. Doesn't contribute enough. We should sell in the summer.

Niang did absolutely nothing. Looks way overated.

Palace (apart from to be fair Zaha) were gash too and never would have scored unless we'd done it for them.

About the only ones who come out of that with any credit at all are Doucoure, Cathcart (who stuck to his task well) and Kaboul.

 

Well that was so so bad. Lost to a crap palace team who didn't have a shot on target, only Watford could manage something as ridiculous as that.

What really irritates me is the clear lack of any attacking planning what so ever. These players are making it up as they go, with no idea what the rest of the team are doing around them. No one looks for the ball, they all look terrified of the thing. If anyone has the ball in the opposition third they just panic and then run into a defender or over hit a cross. Shambles. Needs sorting out quick. At least we've got a couple of weeks to sort out some sort of plan for the Sunderland match...

 

And what's more, there's a severe lack of inspirational figure(s) to make the fact we're kind of rubbish bearable. Mazzarri especially is just a nothing figure really. It's a shame. I'm pretty bored by it all.

 

It's clear Mazzarri gives zero fecks now, he's already in Florence.

 

On train home we need a manager who has a clue and now or we are going down

 

Maz in the last minute looked seriously under stress, I'm sure someone's had a word...

 

I think that has to rate as the least entertaining game of football I have watched all season.

 

Hull managed it.

 

I hate this group of players. No discipline. No bottle. No clue.

 

There is nothing there: Said it for weeks now: Nothing .what the **** is in that big book of his that he shows to players: We are defo in a scrap now. Dont see where we are gonna get points against teams who are fighting for their lives.

 

Don't think ive ever said this before but I want Bournemouth to win their next game.

 

we are ****

 

We should have sacked Mazzarri before the last transfer window. Our win against Arsenal flattered to deceive given subsequent results for Arsenal

 

I don't know what's more embarrassing, the team or the fact that i paid £30 to watch the *****.

 

You!

Say you were given it free.

 

Wally will be gone before monday !!!

 

If we can get 10,000 signatures on a sack Mazzari petition the government will issue a formal response. 100,000 signatures and it will be debated in the Commons!

 

Lost patience with Maz now, been giving him the benefit of the doubt but it's getting worse and worse.

He set the team up for a draw away at Palace, not only that but didn't make any decent positive changes until it was far too late.

What on earth do we do in the two weeks off? It's uninspiring, our tactic today seemed to be give it to Niang and hope he does something but when it was clear he was getting no change from the RB why not move him to the other side or through the middle?

Great finish from Troy, who was really isolated today.

No real complaints about the defence did their job and beaten by an OG nothing can be done there but robbed of a clean sheet.

Tho I've said it before no one is linking the defence to midfield then moving us into the final third, we win the ball roll it to the midfield who are more or less on top of the defence anyway then punt it up to Troy or Niang.

Can take losing any premier league game, it's going to happen more often than not but I'm sick of those sort of performances where I can only remember 1 save their keeper had to make and that was a speculative 30 yard effort from Doucoure.
It seems whether we go a goal up or a goal down WM doesn't know how to change the game and take control or he's just too scared to.

 

Calm down lads, we're not going down, still 7 points clear. We'd probably have to lose every game to go down now. I'll admit it is **** atm though.

Mazzarri has no excuse now - been unlucky with injuries but not got that excuse anymore. Obviously massively miss Pereyra and Zarate, but he should be capable of finding another way to play.

Every single game we get overrun in the middle. That's our biggest problem.

Niang awful again today. Wouldn't care if he left. Success should be starting over him.

 

Then it's the Pozzos fault as they're the ones who get these players.

 

Its actually a slightly better squad than Sanchez Flores had and we were comfortable in mid table then.

 

Does anyone have a plan a? That was a really poor game, after playing backwards and just hoofing the ball up top not working the first few times you'd think we would try something else in the 90mins. I think palace deserved it just but they were there for the taking

 

Plan a should be 2 up front and give us fans something positive to talk about. Like creating a chance.

 

Exactly. We got Okaka so why didn't he play.

 

Meh. This season needs to **** off. We'll probably scrape a couple more draws and a win and do enough to stay up in 16th but Jesus Christ this is tedious. Wake me up when Walter's gone.

 

Wow, 57% possession away from home in the Premier League. These are heady days. COYH!

 

In the context of our season, I don't have a problem with Mazzarri playing for a 0-0 at Palace, would've edged us one point closer to safety and kept one of rivals 6 points below us. However, that is more of a result of how low my expectations currently are than wanting to see us try to do that. Having said that, we defended well for the most part and they didn't really trouble us at all.

But... we are simply dreadful going forward. I think that was the same XI that played so well at Arsenal but that performance was the polar opposite.

Niang doesn't want to be there, he's looked at us hoofing the ball over the last few games and downed tools. He didn't beat his man once and contributed absolutely nothing. He's been rubbish since Burnley. There was no positive play from any of our attacking players, Doucoure was the only player to inject any dynamism or forward movement into our play.

Ref was terrible and 0-0 would've been a fair result but can't really complain. Substitutions were awful, Amrabat not fit and then we put Success on when they're sitting really deep - if ever there was a player that needs space to run into it's him. Given our long ball game plan, Okaka would've been a better bet at that stage - at least his considerable frame would be in the box to challenge for the hoofs.

The players aren't playing for Mazzarri, there's no clear game plan going forwards and confidence looks shot to pieces. If Quique got the boot for our tail off in form last season, Mazzarri must be vulnerable too.

 

****ing awful. We turned up late and that usually is a bad thing but the fact we did meant we had to endure 10 less minutes of that ****. Blessing in disguise.

We have no threat going forward. Mazzari had 2 whole weeks to sort this **** out but didnt do it. What the hell were we doing over that period?

He has to go. He has no clue. Those that wanted Mazzari in, I understand why you did and I am not going to rub it in your face too much, but you have to be slowly agreeing now that he has to go?

I am not even that pissed off tbh, went to the game expecting **** all in terms of results wise but again it was just the manner in which we lost that is frustrating.

Question is I guess, who do we replace Mazzari with? If I was a manager out of a job I wouldn't want to manage us!