Quote Originally Posted by ozleeds View Post
Connor for them was a man of the match but he did a couple of dives in the penalty area. Most of them do it it's the ugly part of the game where the refs were supossed to stamp out which at the start were imposing cards but somehow that has dissapeared.
We don’t have clever midfielders like Olise and Gallagher (Rodrigo is not really a midfielder) and our compress the pitch tactics mean there is lots of space for those smart enough to find it. Phillips was good but playing in a DM 2 where the other DM isn’t used to that role meant he wasn’t on the ball enough as he is head and shoulders above the rest in the middle.

With Cooper and Phillips back Bielsa would probably have kept us up but we will never ever know.

Had some comments from Palace fans at the game and they were impressed with how hard we scrapped for everything but were a little perplexed as to how they didn’t win that one.