That's during our first two seasons with Poch. Probably one of the best defence in Europe.Top teams don't keep giving away 2 goal leads, and any really top team knows with a 2 nil lead approaching HT you don't fucking concede. Simeone would absolutely destroy the Premier league. Teach a team to defend and you'll not go far wrong.
Meh is being kind to Eriksen and Dele lolToo many meh performances tonight. Eriksen, Kane, Dele, N'Dombele , Sanchez all just meh. Won't win many CL games with so many underperformers. Thought Winks and Moura were the stand outs.
Why leave Aurier at home. It's very odd. Of Kane can play 3 games a week but Aurier can't?
Bull.
Hard to trust Poch to see us through when he’s the orchestrator of the most obvious problemsSome right whoppers on here. We're in for a tough season for various reasons. Need to trust in Poch to see us through. A draw away against plucky opponents.
Exactly, as fat Frank would point out theres 2 parts to the cl group stage and knock outsGood result, reasonable performance.
A lot of totally ludicrous criticism in this thread.
Maybe because Saturday is the outlier. For some it’s like the last 18 months never happenedFuck me, the overreactions in here. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a great watch, but it's like Saturday never happened.
*Logs on after long day at Conference mildly happy to get a point away at Olympiacos who have stunning form at home.
Reads last page.
Sees all the posters strangely missing from the Palace match thread are swarming.
*Logs out to make popcorn.
Question the state of this squad... definately. Not Poch’s fault.Only Winks stood out as any player who wanted to get something out of the game. I think it's time we asked some serious questions about Poch and the state of this squad.
Fuck me, the overreactions in here. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a great watch, but it's like Saturday never happened.
Yep especially when poch challenges him to continue his form after the game on Saturday then drops him straight away?
Sorry, but I don't agree Olympiakos is good. Just see Red Star getting 3 points over them and Bayern thrashing them.
They left so much space at the back but we were so poor and slow to capitalise even on counter. On normal attacking possession we are just passing the balls sideways with no intention or creativity to open them up. This team suits us to play lot of early balls behind their defence and we could tear them apart but nobody bloody did that significantly.
Red Star will be an even more difficult challenge and if we are satisfied with just a point tonight, we may regret that decision.
A huge two points dropped tonight and it will be another tough journey to advance to the knock out stage IF we continue with such form.
lolThanks for all the memories, Poch, but it's time to say goodbye. We've been on a downward trajectory for two years now, and he clearly doesn't have any idea how to fix it. For a top squad like ours to be losing 2-goal leads so casually is unacceptable, we are back to Jol/Ramos form away from home, and there's little leadership and even less game management in evidence in a squad he's had control of for over five seasons. The sooner one side or another admits that he's done great things but we need somebody else to take the next step, the less damage we'll see done.