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Crystal Palace Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

theShiznit

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Mr-T said:
Sherwood on MOTD, be interesting how much credit he tries to take for our performance today...
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Think you'll find although he did not have anything to do with Alli at Spurs he delivered him when the midwife went ill.

And he convinced the Korean government to postpone Son's national service.
 
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Having Wet Spam moving into the Olympic Stadium is like producing a beautifully manicured lawn and finding a family of moles have moved in.
 
markiespurs

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Just seen the Wickham assault on MOTD.

Can understand why the ref and linesman did'nt see it. But if the FA don't give Wickham a three match ban then they will be even more incompetent than I first thought.

Simply no place in football for a deliberate elbow in the face like that.
 
Bulletspur

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davidmatzdorf said:
I haven't read the in-match rants on the match thread (I generally don't bother), but even sight unseen, the nature of the criticism I see in quoted posts just doesn't suit the match we just watched.

People's vision routinely gets distorted by the current scoreline. This is a bad thing. Had we been ahead, as we deserved to be, or even level at half time, then the level of criticism would have been different, based on the same performances. This is also bad.

In the real world, we dominated nearly the entire match and virtually every one of Palace's chances came from self-inflicted sloppy or clumsy play by Spurs. Every time we set off on a counter-attack we looked like scoring and, when we weren't counter-attacking, we were crushing them with possession and mounting a steady stream of quite brilliant approach play, sometimes let down by the final ball, but more often defended capably by Palace. It was a vastly one-sided game, from beginning to end, and eventually the scoreline suited the balance of play (which does not always happen).

My point is that Alli's supposedly hopeless play wasn't really all that bad - it just looked that way to fans with these 'brain-and-eye' issues because we were behind. We couldn't have dominated the entire match if he had not played his part in the control of possession and the build-up play.

He made some errors early in the match, mainly sloppy passes and poor positioning, leading to us losing possession. Mistakes get over-remembered and over-emphasised, especially when we are losing. The balance of play gets forgotten and under-remembered.

We're going to have to put up with this stuff from Alli until he matures. You don't bench your 19-year-old match-winner because he's inconsistent. You play him until the rest of his game fills in around his brilliant moments.
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I usually agree with you but not on this occasion. Alli was poor from the get go, even before they scored.I was shouting for him t be subbed from the 1st 15 mins. Nothing to do with us being a goal down. His goal masked his overall poor performance
 
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Sweetsman

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Bulletspur said:
I usually agree with you but not on this occasion. Alli was poor from the get go, even before they scored.I was shouting for him t be subbed from the 1st 15 mins. Nothing to do with us being a goal down. His goal masked his overall poor performance
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No, the point is that his overall performance doesn't matter, because he scored that goal. Great players can do nothing, but will then produce something extraordinary. The main thing to learn is that Poch knows what he is doing.
 
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I am heartened by Chadli's return to form. He has been hampered by injury, but it's also close to the anniversary of his dad's death and that must surely have affected him.
 
Woodyy

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I am heartened by Chadli's return to form. He has been hampered by injury, but it's also close to the anniversary of his dad's death and that must surely have affected him.
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Chadli was arguably our second best player last season, his finishing is quality.

He must be putting himself into contention for a start vs Norwich after his last two performances..
 
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