Crystal Palace vs. Nottingham Forest match thread

[PatrickA]

Somebody elsewhere has nominated Delap as MOM which has some merit.

 

[redshift]

We’ve got two very decent loan centre half’s and Tomiyasu is a very solid player albeit perennially injured. Disasi obviously suspended and Ahanor was I think an improvement to the back 3 when he came on.

Yes we should have spent some dosh on a decent player, however the one we wanted was injured. The problem in the first half today was the massive gaps between wing backs and CHs and the willingness to gift the far post to the opposition.

The defense is a patched up piece of work but I think that was the best we could come up with after losing Max and Marc. Probably have a list of people we would like but if none were available a few loanees is likely the best we could do. Far preferable to spending big money on a panic buy for a player we do not really rate just to have someone we hope will somehow work out. We have done that too often in the past and it rarely ends well.

So we will probably have to soldier on with what we have and perhaps upgrade in January.

 

[Putitout]

The game was typical of our season so far. Allowing Forest to take liberties that only the gods know how we didn’t suffer for it. Yet we were lethal in attack and we didn’t just win a football game we rammed any premise that Glasner was our success right down his throat. Palace are bigger than Glasner and we proved it. Worth its weight in gold to do that.

 

[Gary St.Andrews]

Rode our luck in the first half, but that lovely move carved Forest open for the first and we went on to win! Pleased for Sage big time and you could see he enjoyed that win!

 

[cryrst]

The defense is a patched up piece of work but I think that was the best we could come up with after losing Max and Marc. Probably have a list of people we would like but if none were available a few loanees is likely the best we could do. Far preferable to spending big money on a panic buy for a player we do not really rate just to have someone we hope will somehow work out. We have done that too often in the past and it rarely ends well.

So we will probably have to soldier on with what we have and perhaps upgrade in January.

I think disasi spell check 💁
To come back after his red card and he’s not too bad.

 

[Norbury Old Git]

I agree - Parish has let Sage down..!! Everyone can see defence is our problem - you cannot replace Guehi and Lacroix with two loanees.

We needed and still need at least one real quality centre half if not 2..!!

It’s as plain as the nose on your face..

We got the loanees because none of the many centre back targets wanted to come to Palace. It’s not like buying a player from the supermarket. There is big money available for the next window if we can locate a top quality CB whose club is prepared to release them, the player wants to come, their agent is happy and their family is prepared to move. All these factors come into play.