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Crystal Palace vs Tottenham Hotspur - Match Thread

pablo73

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Also, as Woy said the space is going to be out wide so why not play Trippier rather than Aurier who offers next to nothing going forward. I'm sure Poch will improve him but he's got his fucking work cut out!
 

paulcumpstone

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Aurier seems a waste of money.when van arnold went past him he looked slower than trippier and the less said about his crossing the better. Saying that eriksen has been as poor as anybody out there.lost count the number of poor passes from him.
Need to change it, kane not in the game, alli either.need some pace or one of the front four coming deeper to influence the game more.
As much as people slate dier we have missed him picking the ball up in midfield. Everything just so slow and everyone wants too many touches before moving it on.
That said we have been the better side and unlucky on the 2 pen decisions.
 

GutBucket

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Son and Lucas can make a difference there and everyone needs to play smarter and be braver, even Eriksen looked sloppy in first half.
 

Streetspur77

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This isn’t knee jerk, why the fuck does aurier play ahead of trippier. The guy has average pace, can’t cross for shit and now it appears he can’t even take fucking throw ins. He ain’t even that great at defending........

Because, thankfully, our manager knows more about football then you
 

Cruyff

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There's a line between playing calmly and playing without enough zip, zest and passion. We seem to have staggered over that line and may be heading towards comatosed.
 

Phomesy

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This isn’t knee jerk, why the fuck does aurier play ahead of trippier. The guy has average pace, can’t cross for shit and now it appears he can’t even take fucking throw ins. He ain’t even that great at defending........

Because Trippier will play against Juve and the rotations are set up to make that happen?
 

shelfmonkey

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@tiger666 Why funny mate? It's plain as the nose on your face! It was fucking shit against a team that have got a whole raft of their first team missing and a bunch of subs even palace fans haven't heard of!!!
 

StevePil

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Absolute woeful performance against Palace reserves and after a week off too...!
This is where the phrase Spursy comes from, beat Arse, utd, Draw at pool/Juve, don't turn up in a match against Palace reserves

Will be so pissed if we don't win this one today

2nd half will show how much Poch and players really want Cl football next season
 

heelspurs

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This is ManU-sevilla level of ineptitude. Need Moura and/or Sonny. Palace will now feel that they can get something out of the game. Had we blitzed them this game would be over and now in training game mode.
 

yankspurs

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Aug 22, 2013
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Did you really just accuse our manager of being a coward?

Fucking hell... Spurs fans eh :ROFLMAO:
Better that than being absolutely clueless when it comes to in game managing which i constantly harp on about. I figured id step it back a notch and give him the benefit of the doubt
 

glospur

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Not sure I've seen Erisken or Dembele play worse halves of football.

As a result there's no fluency, which has a knock on effect in pushing Dele and Kane to the outlines of the game.

Fair play to Palace though. They're doing a good job of staying compact in the center and closing down those half spaces when they do pop up, not allowing any of our forward players time on the ball. Sure;y they can't keep it up all game. it's taxing work.
 

Black

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When you swap Son for Lamela, Lamela doesn't offer a genuine goal threat its just like having another attacking midfielder trying to link up play he doesn't try to get into the box. Son or lucas need to come on we need real pace a real direct threat.
 

tooey

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It's nice to know we have game changers on the bench, we need a bit of directness and both Son and Lucas can provide that.
 
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