Manchester City vs. Crystal Palace match thread

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Tough watch, but did we really expect anything different against a highly motivated City team at their place?

Sarr is basically our single attacking threat, so take him out and no surprises we didn’t land a glove on em.

Agree with all the criticism towards Johnson - although to his credit he could and should’ve had at least one assist early on. Massively lacking confidence. Beautiful ball from Pino.

Lerma was right off it, agree. Hughes had a decent enough game, but again, needs an attacking player beside him. Seems to be two attacking players or two defensive players at the moment, which does hinder us imo.

Worried about JSL…feels like an $18M striker versus a $45M one atm.

 

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- Glasner's starting eleven gave us no hope to even try to get something from that game. Hughes + Lerma in midfield sums it up with 0 progessive passing between the pair of them

I want to support this point. I know some consider them our 'defensive' pairing, at least amongst the pundits, but together they really do leave a lot to be desired. Individually I have no problem with either but together you have a grouping where the total is less than the sum of the parts for some weird reason. There has to be some other mix that would be better that OG is once again too stubborn to try.
Our midfield has to be job one for next year.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

I have sympathy for any Palace fans who spent time and money travelling oop north to watch that. At this stage we knew that might happen , but some fans plan their away days a couple of months in advance.

Ahh well, at least it should be obvious where Palace's priorities are this season. s*** or bust for the final.