Villa v CPFC Match Thread

[Phil’s Barber]

A bit harsh on Hughes there. Was clumsy for their penalty but I think he’s been our best player this season

Hughes has been superb this season. His attitude and work rate are both top drawer and he gives 110% every game, which is occasionally his downfall with the fouls committed.
I thought he was unlucky with the penalty today but haven’t seen it on the telly yet. The Villa fans who we were queuing with at Witton train station were all saying they didn’t think that one was a penalty either and felt they had a better shout for one in the second half.

 

[Frenchaigle]

Hughes remembers the likes of Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter (bites yer legs), Chopper Harris, and the Wimbledon crazy gang to name a few. He has obviously toned things down a lot!
It's what the game is missing. Proper really hard challenges has been replaced with shirt pulling, regular fictitious head injuries and players trying to win academy awards for their rolling around antics.
Bring back the old stuff any day. Hughes would fit in perfectly.

Agreed I reckon he would be on one yellow card at the most this season if it were the year 1979 .

 

[eagleman13]

I really can’t agree. Mitchell was not one of our better players today. He tries his best but his best is just nowhere near good enough. He was beaten far too easily for much of the game and turned inside out by his opponent more than once.

But the real problem is him going forward and it is championship standard at best. Poor distribution, hopeless passes, lacking composure and giving the ball away far too often. No overlaps, not an attacking threat and his crossing is generally abysmal.

A quality left wingback is much needed.

Your last sentence I agree with, the rest of your post, no. We all have our own opinions.

 

[Casual]

I was thinking that 5 points from villa, Newcastle and Ipswich would be reasonable . Then we would have the majority of our better players back.
That will be the end of 2 keepers on the bench and hopefully some forward options.
Tough place to go today. Decent point. Although 2 poor goals to give away, Barkley had just put a header wide from the previous corner (can’t be more than 5ft 11)

 

[mogrem]

I’d take the point, Mateta was MOM today, his hold up play and Football IQ was on another level.
We do need a new LWB urgently as Mitchell panics with the ball at his feet and is terrible distribution wise also.

Lacroix for me. He probably stopped 3 goals by himself.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I was thinking that 5 points from villa, Newcastle and Ipswich would be reasonable . Then we would have the majority of our better players back.
That will be the end of 2 keepers on the bench and hopefully some forward options.
Tough place to go today. Decent point. Although 2 poor goals to give away, Barkley had just put a header wide from the previous corner (can’t be more than 5ft 11)

It was a good point and, being honest, I'm wasn't expecting anything today. At the very least it will give us something to work on in training other than trying to find ways of not losing.
Better form than Man City at the moment.

 

[Brinscalleagle2]

Watched the game on a stream. Felt nervous that at any time we would be overrun but thanks to our defensive play and their lacklustre performance as the game went on felt more confident we would not lose. Henderson made very significant saves at the right time and Mateta today had a good control day and caused them all sorts of trouble without looking like scoring.Sarr was better today but lacked the control to win the game for us. LaCroix although having a good game made a bad decision attacking the ball not getting it and leaving Watkins all on his own to score . We need Eze and Wharton back to give us creativity and until we do it is always going to be hit and miss on how we perform. Overall a great result and must give them positive vibes for the up coming games. COYP

 

[PatrickA]

A good point, but two terrible goals to concede.
You could drive a coach and horses through the gap in our defence for the first and the second was a free header.
Our 3 central defenders are good players individually and are in general playing reasonably well.
However, we still can't keep a clean sheet and will find it difficult to win games while this continues.

 

[Xong Kudu]

I thought we played well today and so did the guys around me. We had a real threat which was the main thing and I was convinced we’d win it at the death. Oh well..l

Admittedly many of our chances were as a result of lovely little flicks or through passes setting a player free with a run on goal but we still looked the part.

Hughes was huge but they all performed admirably.

Well done lads.

 

[Eaglecoops]

A good point, but two terrible goals to concede.
You could drive a coach and horses through the gap in our defence for the first and the second was a free header.
Our 3 central defenders are good players individually and are in general playing reasonably well.
However, we still can't keep a clean sheet and will find it difficult to win games while this continues.

It looks like zonal marking because for the goal there were 3 defenders stood there looking at two players, both of whom were in acres of space and could have headed it home.

In fact it’s such a mess at corners that it’s difficult to work out exactly what we are trying to do.

I find it hard to believe that we play with 3 centre halfs and struggle so much at corners.

 

[Dnjc]

I enjoyed the match. Great goals. A hard second half facing an onslaught. Away fans were all happy.

 

[Phil’s Barber]

Your last sentence I agree with, the rest of your post, no. We all have our own opinions.

Fully respect that. At the end of the day we all want Palace to do well and will support our team and players regardless.