I would argue that his game is not suited to the premier league. Well not in Palace type team anyway.

His passing is either sideways or backwards, of course there are times when he passes forward. Pretty much every game he plays he just runs around like headless chicken and I feel he offers very little to the side.

In fact you say he takes pressure off other players I would suggest he adds pressure to them.

He is at best a squad player and would not be first choice if the bulk of our midfielders were fit.

Edited by 55 years a fan (13 Mar 2021 6.05pm)

But we are not in normal times, if the ground was packed the players would raise the tempo and their game.

Another 90 minutes of dour unentertaining 'hoof the ball'. However, our team and manager have probably done just enough to secure funding for their extortionate wages for another year.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Absolutely. The good news is that the way results are going, the Weed are slowly sliding down towards that trapdoor

If someone had watched the game without knowing the table, and you said one team is just below halfway and the other is second to bottom.

They would have struggled to see which is which.

West Brom were the better team imo, but not by much.

As we know the final third is often not our forte either.

Good defence and organisation I do not find drab, but absorbing.

I didn't feel they would score a goal at anytime really, or us.

I'd say we were worthy winners today. Their keeper made two or three good saves to keep out luka (though we got the penalty in the same move) and Benteke in the second half. Giauita didn't really have a save to make.

If the Benteke shot (second half, left foot) goes in, the game is dead already and we maybe get a third as they over commit after, but we were never under pressure really.

I watched the second half of the Newcastle / Villa game yesterday which was crap. Until the crowds come back and the games ae more evenly spread like they used to be they will be more of the same.

Conjunctivitis.com - A site for sore eyes.

f***ing hell. All I see in this forum is whine whine whine. Oh, we won the game, whine whine whine.

This is so toxic. We are now a top-50 football team in the world. And all you want is to gamble that on a vegas roulette-wheel.

Jesus christ! Unfortunately I cannot pick my supporters.

I thought it was a s*** game but no Premier League points come easy and West Brom have managed to pick up points at Liverpool and Man City and only lost to United by a twice taken penalty.

They bullied us a bit in the middle and and our forwards and midfield players didn't retain the ball well enough.

Big Sam's plan seemed to be to niggle and hope that one of their many free kicks or speculative long range crosses would fall right but they didn't ultimately have the quality on the couple of occasions it did.

Kouyate and Cahill immense again IMO.