Crystal Palace - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread ***

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

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.

[Billyni]

We don't have any clever players at all. We are always giving away stupid scorable free kicks, pulling shirts in the penalty area, staying on our feet when other teams are winning penalties, defenders who think they are Cruyff.
Granted, apart from Raphinia, they are all hard working. However if you are more clever you can afford to work a little less hard. When was the last time a midfielder ever played a clever ball through to a forward.

[ozleeds]

We don't have any clever players at all. We are always giving away stupid scorable free kicks, pulling shirts in the penalty area, staying on our feet when other teams are winning penalties, defenders who think they are Cruyff.
Granted, apart from Raphinia, they are all hard working. However if you are more clever you can afford to work a little less hard. When was the last time a midfielder ever played a clever ball through to a forward.

That's not fair Billy I remember Cantona providing heaps and we scored from them.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

That's not fair Billy I remember Cantona providing heaps and we scored from them.

Wasn’t Cantona a car model for Ford? 😎

[ozleeds]

Wasn’t Cantona a car model for Ford? ��

Ferrari and ended up coming in red color

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

The next instalment is now in Perth just for Oz

[ozleeds]

The next instalment is now in Perth just for Oz

Not sure if they are coming to my state of Victoria, Brisbane Roar is a Queensland side so I presume they will play there. I doubt they will play here as the Ozzy Rules season will be in the finals stages. Melbourne in my state always gets the biggest crowds for any sports event even though it's the smallest state but somehow they find ways not to play games here.
Imagine if I pay good money to travel 4 hours to the ground and they run out with Roberts, Rod,Larente,Firpo,Kiko, James, and the likes would be awesome.

[Tichi1]

We don't have any clever players at all. We are always giving away stupid scorable free kicks, pulling shirts in the penalty area, staying on our feet when other teams are winning penalties, defenders who think they are Cruyff.
Granted, apart from Raphinia, they are all hard working. However if you are more clever you can afford to work a little less hard. When was the last time a midfielder ever played a clever ball through to a forward.

Ayling is quite clever when it comes to "winning" free kicks to be fair Billy boy!