| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town 09:34 - Sep 14 with 2660 views | unstableblue |
1) after viewing MOTD, the highlights, been on the forum - you’d have thought we were lucky to win yesterday and 10 man Palace dominated for long periods. But in reality Town looked strong bar a 10min spell second half, and deserved the win.
2) Town had good control in the game prior to the red, but Towns biggest issue in the first half was ourselves. So many unforced errors, including Scherpens howler. Eradicate these, tweak our judgements somewhat, we’d have dominated periods of that first half.
3) Our defence is stronger and more structured than many posts suggest last week. Greaves was good, as was Diop. OShea was excellent, he is now very much at Premier League Level. The issues for our defence are coming from the central midfield or cheap errors/turnover in the front 4. It’s good we have 6 going forward in such numbers, often with Leif. But the defence get exposed when we allow poor turnover.
4) Yes our central midfield did expose the defence on occasion. But wow, Lukic and Palacios are a massive step up for Town over Morsy/Luongo (Cajuste/phillips/taylor). Lukic is far better than I expected. Palacios is a dream - he covered the most distance of any Town player during the game. And I think there is more to come.
5) Davis - wow, just wow. Like OShea he’s returned to the Premier League and is beyond the level. Our fastest player at Selhurst Park - solid and oh so attacking. MOTM.
6) Clarke has come back a better player. He has the Sunderland goal. Yet I was concerned we’d miss Maeda protection for Leif. But our left was mainly solid and also dangerous. Still, you can criticise Clarke as he had 3-4 chances to create true threat - either with shot or pass. More to come. And we can bring Jaden on!! Who is rusty, but had some brief moments, where the quality oozed, off the bench.
7) Town were dominant and very easy on the eye after the red, and for the start of second half - we have to be more clinical in those periods. This is the period the highlights missed. We played great stuff against the 10 and Enciso movement is a nightmare for the opposition, but do need to put games beyond teams. A bit like getting the second at Old Trafford when in the ascendency.
8) Emersonn is a buy, he really is. That is proper transfer business. They’re still working on his technical skills - and there were moments where his touch would have provided real box danger, but failed. Yet his output in that game was remarkable - FOTMOB had him as MOTM in stats. Also Ouatarra is looking good, what a prospect. So calm and technical on the ball. Excited to see him start Tuesday.
9) Really like GON post match - he clearly could have over gilded the lilly. But pointed out those errors and the need to improve - we were poor in turnover up to their first goal. He’s really grown on me. I think he is genuinely impressed by the Town fans and the travelling blue army - who were superb! Some good (if simple) songs emerging, and Town in Five captures the joy in our away end really well.
10) As stated Greaves was good in South London, not seeing many posts praising him after all the negativity. His positional awareness is better, and he seems quicker. But I wanted to call out Scherpen - it was such a howler to Wharton as stated. But I noted down all his game moments - I do think on the goals he can’t do more, a very lucky nick off Davis heel. I think Larsson shot is too good (what a battle he had with Diop all afternoon). But there was a lot of positives in our giant keepers display, he is growing in confidence. I like his throwing and kicking, Fatawu needs to do better on some. And he makes good saves. Let’s back the lad.
We made Saturday harder than it should have been. But I’m excited about the Hill Dickinson. We can threaten any team at this level.
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| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 12:53 - Sep 14 with 294 views | Devereuxxx |
A very fair review I would say. Some additional thoughts:
- I thought Jack Clarke was excellent. He played quick when he needed to (like the little first time nudge to Leif for our first) and looked a proper PL winger. Shame he didn't score in the second half.
- Greaves was certainly improved. I still think long-term O'Shea and Diop is the preferred partnership (with Outtarra at RB - really hoping he gets a run out there against Arsenal), but Greaves is a perfectly viable option.
- I'm not jumping on the 'Scherpen is dross' bandwagon yet, but I felt today he almost over compensated for being beaten at his near post against United and Liverpool by leaving a bigger gap at his far post today. Both times his positioning just seemed like he was over-compensating a tad.
- Leif Davis is a machine, and those of us who put him in their FPL team are from the start are reaping the rewards. |  | | |
| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 13:15 - Sep 14 with 254 views | unstableblue |
| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 11:13 - Sep 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
I think if it ends 2-2 nobody can have too many complaints. It was pretty even on balance by most metrics. We had chances to kill the game at 2-1, they had a massive chance at 2-2. That's every bit an even game IMO, I'm not sure either side really deserved to win it (or lose) but appreciate others will see it differently. Fine margins though innit, if Fatawu or Clarke put 1 of those chances away to make it 1-3 we're probably all sat here saying it was a comfortable away win. |
There was the obvious Clarke chance, and the moment from Fatawu. But were another 3 or 4 moments for Clarke, Enciso and Emersonn that didn’t make the highlights or stay in the memory
These and the passages of play leading up to them, is what has changed my perception of the game. | |
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| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 13:17 - Sep 14 with 251 views | unstableblue |
| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 12:35 - Sep 14 by Dubtractor |
The key thing for me, is that if we can keep ourselves in it until later in games, and then have options from the bench to make a difference, then we can get the right side of fine margins more often.
That's exactly what happened in our two wins, and we were the team pushing for the win at the end in both games.
No arguing that we were poor for a fair spell in the second half Saturday, and oddly them scoring helped us as it changed our mentality back to trying to win, rather than (badly) managing a 2-1 lead. [Post edited 14 Sep 12:56]
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I think Palace needs to score early in that 10-15mins spell not at the end.
They absolutely knackered themselves with the amount of running needed to take the game to 11men with 10.
And they just wilted after their goal. | |
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| STOP THE PRESS - Palacios covered more distance than Mainoo and Anderson! on 17:01 - Sep 14 with 125 views | unstableblue |
I was watching the Manchester derby thinking my word Mainoo and MOTM Anderson are covering some distance here!!
But our Palacios travelled more KMs than both. A whole KM more than Mainoo.
Wonderful signing. Only going to get better. | |
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| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 17:17 - Sep 14 with 108 views | longtimefan |
| 10 quick thoughts having watched the Full Match Replay - Palace 3-2 Town on 11:13 - Sep 14 by _CliveBaker_ |
I think if it ends 2-2 nobody can have too many complaints. It was pretty even on balance by most metrics. We had chances to kill the game at 2-1, they had a massive chance at 2-2. That's every bit an even game IMO, I'm not sure either side really deserved to win it (or lose) but appreciate others will see it differently. Fine margins though innit, if Fatawu or Clarke put 1 of those chances away to make it 1-3 we're probably all sat here saying it was a comfortable away win. |
I think the second half revolved around substitutions. Our initial 3 man change definitely negatively impacted our game, though with the ref likely to be looking for a chance to even up the red cards, I think GON was sensible to withdraw Clark and Fatawu, who were both on yellows. Following their equaliser, the introduction of Luis for a tiring Lukic (also on a yellow) definitely re-energised us, which coupled with their substitution of Larsen and Kamada killed their offensive threat, and seemed like them settling for a point. Can't help thinking that if those last three substitutions hadn't happened the result could have been very different. |  | | |
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