Crystal Palace vs. AZ Alkmaar match thread

[Willo]

Apart from the Bournemouth one where the goalie went early to side Mateta normally goes. It would actually be interesting to see his stats where he goes.

There is no particular corner he generally chooses, but he tends to drill the ball low rather than thwack the ball towards the top corners of the net.

 

[Palacesince64]

I was watching Smit thinking how he would replace Adam Wharton when we get a bid in we just cant refuse.

That did go through my mind as well!

 

[eaglesdare]

There is no particular corner he generally chooses, but he tends to drill the ball low rather than thwack the ball towards the top corners of the net.

My previous post I asked grok and it shows out of the last 6 pens he went bottom right 4 times. (Before last night)

 

[OneStevePerrin]

I don't know about anyone else, but i was on tenderhooks most of the game, i know i shouldn't have worried, still. The 'Standard' is reporting that Sarr has been nursing a 'small' issue with one of his hamstrings & he got taken off earlier than planned to protect him, good call, will need him fit & firing on Sunday. Also, they reported that the reason why Riad wasn't in the squad as originally planned is during training y/day he slipped & hurt his knee, so not included.

Yup, that’s being a Palace fan. We are having the best year ever but I’m still on those tenterhooks whenever we play. Think it’s down to the number of chances we miss together with our final ball lacking? Think the Liverpool’s of this world when on top form have what we are missing?

 

[Willo]

Who was their big striker who came on. Looks a handful. The black fella about 8 ft tall

That was Zeefuik who is well north of 6 feet.
He does not have an admirable goalscoring record.
He replaced Troy Parrott whom I remember from plying his trade at English clubs.

 

[Nicholas91]

Yup, that’s being a Palace fan. We are having the best year ever but I’m still on those tenterhooks whenever we play. Think it’s down to the number of chances we miss together with our final ball lacking? Think the Liverpool’s of this world when on top form have what we are missing?

Indeed.

TBF though, I can only compare it to when other teams look so in control in games and I'm guessing my lack of a sense of peril is through not caring too much if it does happen!

With Palace you care, so everything is potentially the end of the world, far more dramatic and far more perilous.

The nature of being a football fan I suppose.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Who was their big striker who came on. Looks a handful. The black fella about 8 ft tall

I wonder if their fans said the same when Uche came on 🤣

 

[Willo]

I wonder if their fans said the same when Uche came on 🤣

Uche has featured in 7 games for us, has never started and in 6 of the 7 games he was introduced in the fray in the following minutes :
83,84,86,87,89 and 89.
It is perhaps not sagacious to form a judgement after such cameo appearances.

 

[Nicholas91]

Who was their big striker who came on. Looks a handful. The black fella about 8 ft tall

Lequincio Zeefuik - Lequincio Zeefuik - Wikipedia

20 years old, 6'6" tall and 4 million points in scrabble.

 

[Willo]

Lequincio Zeefuik - Lequincio Zeefuik - Wikipedia

20 years old, 6'6" tall and 4 million points in scrabble.

🤣 🤣 🤣

Erstwhile Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny would also score well !

 

[Spindle]

I don't know about anyone else, but i was on tenderhooks most of the game

Tenterhooks

 

[Spindle]

He mixes it up but they’re never convincing even when they go in!

Bollocks

 

[PatrickA]

Uche has featured in 7 games for us, has never started and in 6 of the 7 games he was introduced in the fray in the following minutes :
83,84,86,87,89 and 89.
It is perhaps not sagacious to form a judgement after such cameo appearances.

Fair comment.
However, it is difficult to find where he fits in.
Watching him in warm ups (I acknowledge, not the most reliable indicator), he looks to have good control of the ball and quick feet.
In the limited minutes he has had in my view he doesn't look to be a central striker or an 'inside forward' who will have the discipline and put the work on of Sarr and Pino.
He's still relatively inexperienced and apparently played in an attacking midfield role at his last club.
It may be that coaching will bring him up to speed with Glasner's methods, but it's not a given.

 

[Team of the (20)80s]

Yup, that’s being a Palace fan. We are having the best year ever but I’m still on those tenterhooks whenever we play. Think it’s down to the number of chances we miss together with our final ball lacking? Think the Liverpool’s of this world when on top form have what we are missing?

Yeah, it is heavily ingrained in to all of us. I am trying to relax and enjoy the good times though. The second half against Villa in the semi (and most of the games against them) springs to mind plus the whole concept of being in the Community Shield at Wembley with nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

I feel we have closed out the Brentford and AZ games well, without the players really breaking a sweat, even if we can’t say the same for the fans!

 

[silvertop]

Fair comment.
However, it is difficult to find where he fits in.
Watching him in warm ups (I acknowledge, not the most reliable indicator), he looks to have good control of the ball and quick feet.
In the limited minutes he has had in my view he doesn't look to be a central striker or an 'inside forward' who will have the discipline and put the work on of Sarr and Pino.
He's still relatively inexperienced and apparently played in an attacking midfield role at his last club.
It may be that coaching will bring him up to speed with Glasner's methods, but it's not a given.

Either he isn't meeting standard, or we are trying not to trigger something in the loan deal?

 

[ASCPFC]

Agreed. I was watching Smit and thinking how good would he be alongside Wharton for the next few years!

True, but the commentators knew him: and little else about football. Which means every other team knows him. We'll bid twenty mil and get told to f*** off. Chelsea will buy him and loan him out for four years before we buy him for 45 mil.

 

[Foxy82]

Lequincio Zeefuik - Lequincio Zeefuik - Wikipedia

20 years old, 6'6" tall and 4 million points in scrabble.

What Zeefuik? That is tall!

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Uche has featured in 7 games for us, has never started and in 6 of the 7 games he was introduced in the fray in the following minutes :
83,84,86,87,89 and 89.
It is perhaps not sagacious to form a judgement after such cameo appearances.

No judgement from me, it’s just both teams had a big black fella come on and both sets of fans might have been thinking the same 😃

 

[Willo]

When we hit the woodwork twice and Mateta missed a penalty I had a ghastly thought that it was going to be one of those games where we were destined not to score.