Palace with 3 at the back managers have worked out Maresca now

 

Edited January 4, 20251 yr by El regreso

Looking at Palace’s team their game plan is obvious. 
 

Lerma/Doucoure going to congest the space Palmer takes up. 

Edited January 4, 20251 yr by Sconnie Blue

I would guess this means Gusto is inverting today, means Levi can be the CCB.

Yeah, Palace are absolutely going to pack the final third, especially in the centre.

I'm not a fan of Gusto in this system.

I'll try to stay positive though.

4 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

I would guess this means Gusto is inverting today, means Levi can be the CCB.

Yeah hopefully he learned from Fulham and both fullbacks don’t go flying up. 

A bit worried now that I've seen both team set ups above. 

Gusto inverting and cucu playing wingback at times just leaves Caicedo, Colwill and Acheampong cleaning up at the back against mateta, eze and sarr.

 

I hope our 3 have had their weetabix served in redbull/monster for breakfast and lunch! 

Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

Yeah hopefully he learned from Fulham and both fullbacks don’t go flying up. 

Hopefully indeed as it would make for a tougher debut for Josh if he does that again.

No Lavia on the bench. Will he still be "really close" in 10 days time vs Bournemouth?

Fofana certainly needs to be on the scrap heap now, Lavia may well join him there. 

Is Cucurella the only signing of the Todd sporting director era that was not a giant waste of time and money?

Expecting a really diffiuclt game today. Not loking forward to it. 

Bit of good news. With the new year we have no suspension warnings. Now need 10 yellows to get banned. 

Alright, here we go again.  Newcastle were 11 points behind Chelsea recently, now level.  How quick things can change.

Tough game today.  Starts with basic desire and workrate - lets see how much they want it.  Palace will frustrate us, with wingbacks pushing our wingers back, long balls behind whichever full back inverts, and flooding the midfield space.

A win would be massive.  With current mood can easily see a draw or loss, but want to be positive.  We didn't get crap overnight - just a bump that all teams have.

Just now, PhilH930 said:

Alright, here we go again.  Newcastle were 11 points behind Chelsea recently, now level.  How quick things can change.

Tough game today.  Starts with basic desire and workrate - lets see how much they want it.  Palace will frustrate us, with wingbacks pushing our wingers back, long balls behind whichever full back inverts, and flooding the midfield space.

A win would be massive.  With current mood can easily see a draw or loss, but want to be positive.  We didn't get crap overnight - just a bump that all teams have.

But that does mean Spurs lost AGAIN today.

 

It should be one of Neto or Sancho, it should rarely be both of them at the same time. They don't have goals in them.

If we score first there tactic will go to ratsh*t.

Cmon the Chels

 

Best of luck to Acheampong today, never seen him at CB before 

Hmm can West Ham not be garbage and get 3 points to drag themselves closer to United and Spurs?

Nah...

1 minute ago, timetowaste said:

Best of luck to Acheampong today, never seen him at CB before 

He is a centre back by trade, played the majority of his youth games there for us, though usually at RB for England i think.

I quite like that Maresca has the balls to put him there rather than fit him at rb.

5 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Best of luck to Acheampong today, never seen him at CB before 

I read he has played RCB before, I think that is where he will be deployed today.

He deserves his chance, Tosin and Disasi have been garbage.

Would be nice if Guiu had been given his chance given Jackson has been rubbish and Nkunku having had no impact up front.

I am a bit worried. Not sure if this is the game to start the youngster maybe the fa cup would have been better 

I do hope I’m wrong and wish him the best of luck as it would be great if he solved the problem for us 

1 minute ago, Neil A said:

I am a bit worried. Not sure if this is the game to start the youngster maybe the fa cup would have been better 

I do hope I’m wrong and wish him the best of luck as it would be great if he solved the problem for us 

Given Delap bullied Tosin, Disasi and Colwill perhaps Big Enz thinks Josh has the physicality to deal with Mateta?

This has the hallmarks of Ipswich all over it.

11 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Hmm can West Ham not be garbage and get 3 points to drag themselves closer to United and Spurs?

Nah...

No idea how they’ve accumulated the points they have as West Ham imo are just as bad as Saints every time I’ve watched them. 

Come on boys time to get back to winning ways.

Good luck Josh!

7 minutes ago, El regreso said:

This has the hallmarks of Ipswich all over it.

Could be, Palace have better players than them imo, with Guhei, Eze and Henderson all very good players, imo.

Mod predicted this to be a high scoring game. Cannot say I see that Mod, Palace will look to keep this tight, and our finishing has not been good of late.