Besiktas vs. Crystal Palace match thread

[Dogburger]

Big gap between the centre backs again

 

[Eden Eagle]

Who was meant to be picking up Ndidi ?

 

[Spindle]

What a day. Had the shits on hols, house exchange going very badly because of c*** solicitors on buyers side, now this. All after f***ing Sunday.

 

[wilelliott88]

Mr Sage...you have 1 half to save your job imo, all or nothing.

 

[Frenchaigle]

Against the run of play big time , shame , as we were the better team

 

[PalazioVecchio]

we can still win this. They are not as good as a prem team.

 

[DenTyler]

What the f*** were the back 3 doing there.

Best half of football for ages and they do that. How many times do teams dominate and then lose

 

[Team of the (20)80s]

Disasi, followed someone into midfield and left a gap. Not the first time he's done that.

Agree, primarily his fault but Canvot let the player go too, right in the middle of the three centre backs - Appalling defending.

 

[Spindle]

Who was meant to be picking up Ndidi ?

He was given a boat, channel escort and free house on arrival

 

[JHB]

for all the good play if we can’t defend we are in trouble. Simple long ball and we just stand and watch as Ndidi waltzes in and scores.

 

[eaglesdare]

Mr Sage...you have 1 half to save your job imo, all or nothing.

I'm actually pleased about the first half. Except for the goal

 

[redshift]

For about the last 30 minutes of that half I really could not see what, if anything, we were trying to do other than just maintain shape and chase the ball around. We came out nice and aggressive and then just seemed to start sleepwalking through the rest of the half. Someone needs to wake us up.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Get Chilwell on.

 

[RedandBlueSash]

Two of our four most experienced CB injured, a third CB suspended for six weeks, two top scorers out for the first third of the season, hitting woodwork every game, refs chalking off our goals every week and every opposition attack leading to a goal.

Don't know if it's our manager or this season is cursed but something is.

 

[samprior]

Good half. Except we are rubbish at defending. Which unfortunately is a huge part of football.

So frustrating. We gift the opposition so many free goals in each game.

 

[Frenchaigle]

Mr Sage...you have 1 half to save your job imo, all or nothing.

Come off it , the performance has been good .s*** happens .
We are a different team than Sunday

 

[Nutmegyeti]

If only he hadn’t had a warning that three centre backs isn’t working

Ffs one attack it’s taken to unlock it, the only difference here is that it’s come in the last 5 minutes rather than the first.

To use a French analogy, or more accurately, a Corsican one, Napoleon supposedly used to ask of his generals not whether they were good, but whether they were lucky.

Unfortunately for Palace, Sage appears to be neither.

 

[mogrem]

Im just arsed. If it's offside fair game. But the tackle to make it offside is 100% a penalty

 

[OneStevePerrin]

Disasi well and truly caught out. One long ball and we screw it up :-( Yes, we’ve looked okay but they aren’t that good. Disappointed with Mitchells performance again, he looks well off it?

 

[ambrose7]

Ball about to be played forwards. McNeil literally does a f****** Irish jig a couple of yards away from the ball as the pass is lined up. Disasi has drifted into no man's land. Canvot is stood square as a ball is about to be played forwards.

It's so avoidable.