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Crystal Palace vs Chelsea (PL) Sat 4th January 25 15:00 GMT

Trueblu77 said:
Same old sh*t, Enzo in midfield will never work with Caceido. As for this championship managers subs, I don't think I've witnessed anything worse. 
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Think that's a bit harsh. I thought Caicedo and Enzo were our best players actually. 

 
Victor90 said:
But our injury crises predate Pochettino, we had massive amounts of injuries under Lampard, Tuchel, Potter aswell. I wouldn't be so optimistic things are different now, I would dare say this season has just been an anomaly. 
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Well fair enough, but there's only one active first-team player (Reece James) left from the 2021/22 Tuchel squad.

(Two I suppose if you count Bettinelli)

 
Trueblu77 said:
Same old sh*t, Enzo in midfield will never work with Caceido. As for this championship managers subs, I don't think I've witnessed anything worse. 
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He will say the same old sh*t “the players were doing alright so i saw no reason to change it” Guiu was standing on the touchline for 6 minutes waiting to  replace the waste of space, ended up getting 10 mins, Noni got 6 mins

 
Feels like a defeat.

Man City have almost overtaken us now so there’s realistically only 1 champions league spot up for grabs.

Forest could go 4 points ahead of us on Monday and Newcastle are in good form and have winnable games coming up.

Not looking good for us.

 
cfr95 said:
Once we lose control of a game we struggle to wrestle it back.

We're crying out for a proper DM to bring off the bench to help us see out games like this. Glad to see Lesley is finally getting minutes for Southampton, maybe he can fill that role in the squad for us when he comes back...
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Santos, surely? Doing very well in France

 
POCH OUT said:
He will say the same old sh*t “the players were doing alright so i saw no reason to change it” Guiu was standing on the touchline for 6 minutes waiting to  replace the waste of space, ended up getting 10 mins, Noni got 6 mins
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Yah... no time to affect the game... 2 problems: 1) He doesn't recognize when the game is getting away from us and 2) Partly due to 1 he doesn't know how to change things and fix the problems... I always enjoyed Mourinho changing 3 at a time when it wasn't working!

 
Just 5 games back Marescas name was being sung as was "we got our Chelsea back"

That was jumping the gun, somehow Maresca even has Palmer in the malaise, not even Poch achieved that.

 
POCH OUT said:
Everyone and his cat could see an equaliser was coming apart from one person, so he sat on his hands AGAIN, its a 16 man game now NOT a 12 man game USE YOUR SUBS and give them at least 20-25 mins
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Ps - Palmer went missing again in the second half, mind you it helps if they pass him the ball, interesting to see how many touches Gusto, Caicedo and colwill had, im guessing more then anyone else

 
Knew at half time we weren't winning this game. Nowhere near clinical enough, and we don't keep clean sheets, so the equaliser was inevitable. Just surprised we didn't lose to be honest.

 
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axman2526 said:
Just 5 games back Marescas name was being sung as was "we got our Chelsea back"

That was jumping the gun, somehow Maresca even has Palmer in the malaise, not even Poch achieved that.
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Yes big mistake, it didn’t help shouting from the rooftops “we aren’t in a title race”, the players took him at his word and decided to take their foot off the gas

 
POCH OUT said:
Everyone and his cat could see an equaliser was coming apart from one person, so he sat on his hands AGAIN, its a 16 man game now NOT a 12 man game USE YOUR SUBS and give them at least 20-25 mins
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It's not even just the lack of subs. He literally changes nothing tactically throughout a match, he just expects the team to pull it together and sort it out themselves.

When teams are on top, sometimes it's a good idea to slow the game down when it's back in Sanchez's hands. Hold onto the ball, give them a breather and find a bit of composure, but nope, Maresca wants that ball quickly thrown out into midfield so we can quickly attack. It's just constant chaos, and the inevitable happens. A player gets caught on the ball and we concede.

Our midfield keeps getting suffocated too. Why isn't Maresca helping them by sticking another player in there? Shuffle the team around a bit, have a player drop off into midfield to give the likes of Caicedo a chance. All he is doing is running Caicedo into the ground, who looked completely shattered by the 70th minute.

 
WhiteWall said:
I can think of one reason. Our striker had more attempts on goal than any other player.  We had one shot on target and it weren't him.
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Isak, Haaland, one of Liverpool's strikers, you name it, would have had a field day today. We carved that Palace defence open from every single angle, yet we only scored one. This team needs experience, too. The board did a good job so far, it is a squad full of talent, probably the squad with the highest ceiling in world football, but it's time to bring in at least two or three top players with bags of experience to put these kind of games to bed. Even the Giroud of 2021 would have hat a hat trick today. 

 
Forgot this was today. Thought it was tomorrow. Missed it We drew. Quelle surprise 🙄

Should've checked really but I had a plank that was warping and I needed to watch it !! 

 
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