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Booted Eagle Flag Bristol 09 Jan 21 12.34pm

Originally posted by palace chick

I see Hodgson is saying we lost to a Wolves wonder goal. Might be better if he explained why we allowed him the time and space to take that shot. If Mitchell and Schlupp had been down the left side I’m fairly sure they would have been tight on the scorer. Eze in my mind was the culprit in giving him that space to shot. All goals come from mistakes but that was lower league defending. In truth the whole 90 plus minutes were poor by us and we got what we deserved :-(

As we had no shots on target we could of lost to "any" goal!!

Edited by Booted Eagle (09 Jan 2021 12.35pm)

 

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Painter Flag Croydon 09 Jan 21 12.36pm

Originally posted by EddieMac

Pathetic stuff -
That Reidewald chap is Sunday league quality. He hasnt a clue where to position himself on the pitch. Get rid of him.

Bats was a ridiculous loan signing.
Sakh o s*** injured again - shock horror.

The only player that showed an ounce of fight was McCarthy.

Butland looked good

Mitchell.

I agree Reidewald is grossly overrated, not consistant enough, thats why he doesnt get regular start. He just waved his foot in front of Treore before he shot, instead of getting body in the way.

Edited by Painter (09 Jan 2021 12.38pm)

 
Painter Flag Croydon 09 Jan 21 12.49pm

Originally posted by Booted Eagle

Said about square pegs in round holes before the match. Needed a cohesive team with some passion but not to be. Not surprising under rinse and repeat Roy.

Edited by Booted Eagle (09 Jan 2021 12.09pm)

This square pegs in round holes nonsense, they all played in positions they have before. All the players are extreemly well paid professionals and play in the toughest league in the world.
The real issue is Wolves were for fitter, faster and wanted to win.

 
Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 09 Jan 21 1.04pm

Originally posted by Painter

This square pegs in round holes nonsense, they all played in positions they have before. All the players are extreemly well paid professionals and play in the toughest league in the world.
The real issue is Wolves were for fitter, faster and wanted to win.

The issue is the combination of the 2 strikers and 2 midfielders, plus Ayew on one of the wings. We stood very little chance and that’s what happened. Batshuayi imo has never been any good in the middle third and won’t link up play between midfield and Benteke at all.

 

COYP
Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 09 Jan 21 1.35pm

Originally posted by Spiderman


He was outside the box. Agreed poor defending but still an extremely good strike

With the utmost respect, the ball was on the line when he struck it with his left foot and his standing right foot was in the area.

Certainly a strike with venom but I do think that "Wonder goal" is an exaggeration.

 
Wilesy01 Flag Bristol 09 Jan 21 1.39pm

The more I think about last night's performance and lack of any kind of tactics I wonder why Roy don't just play a team of kids, like what Villa did (although their hand was forced!!)

We would have learned an awful lot more from doing that, and since Roy obviously isn't fussed about progressing, as is the case in every cup comp under him, he could have given the entire team a rest.

 
G O Eagle Flag 09 Jan 21 1.49pm

Zaha, Townsend, Benteke, Batshuayi, Ayew and Eze on the pitch - and not a single shot one goal!!!

Tthis is not what the FA is about.

Remember the joy, when we beat Wolwes 10 years ago and the pride of the Anfield-victory in 2003.

Roy has taken away every piece of joy and pride, on an off the pitch, at a time, where we need it more than ever.

GO. NOW.

 
Uphill Flag Bedford 09 Jan 21 2.01pm

I have to question the manager's hold on reality.

On paper we had a talented team so why did they run around like 'headless chickens' with absolutely no tactical direction?

Individual 'villain' was PVA (yet again) and the midfield in general with no attacking intent or intelligent distribution. Eze has great talent but is already losing his edge due tactical restrictions on him.

I thought Sakho and Tomkins were solid and Butland not at fault for the goal (it was a rocket) but the team were tactically inept - so who is to blame?
We all know the answer and he should resign.

 

Man and boy Palace since my first game in 1948 sitting on my dad's shoulders
MKCPFC Flag Spain/MK 09 Jan 21 2.03pm

Originally posted by Willo

What darned "Wonder goal" ?

Overhead kick, beats 3 men, scored from one's own half,mazy dribble, multiple passes leading to goal ????
Traore cuts in, given acres of space, no challenge at all and scores from inside the area.

Gotta agree with Willo on this one

 
jeeagles Flag 09 Jan 21 2.15pm

Originally posted by Willo
With the utmost respect, the ball was on the line when he struck it with his left foot and his standing right foot was in the area.

Certainly a strike with venom but I do think that "Wonder goal" is an exaggeration.

Seems like Roy's comments are distracting people from our own performance.

Wonder goal or not. They had the lead and we weren't able to create a single shot on target.

Doesn't make much difference how it went in - as soon as they were 1-0 up it was game over.

We can no longer keep clean sheets, so it was only a matter of time.

 
Nicholas91 Flag The Democratic Republic of Kent 09 Jan 21 2.16pm

Originally posted by Willo

With the utmost respect, the ball was on the line when he struck it with his left foot and his standing right foot was in the area.

Certainly a strike with venom but I do think that "Wonder goal" is an exaggeration.

Summary mirrors my take on it

 

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!
eagleman13 Flag On The Road To Hell & Alicante 09 Jan 21 3.08pm

Originally posted by Willo

It was disgraceful, but PVA has been guilty of abject embarrassing defending in recent games.
His whole body language is shouting "I want out".

Did you notice how just turned his back when Traore shot for his goal, PvA couldve/shouldve put his body in the way. He wantx out & it shows.

 

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.
AERO Flag 09 Jan 21 3.24pm

Interesting thought ? If covid didn't arrive and we had full stadiums at home ,Who thinks Roy would be still in charge ? I think Roy and the board are being shielded from major fan unrest at our tactics and performances.

 
lellbell Flag Ashford 09 Jan 21 3.50pm

Originally posted by AERO

Interesting thought ? If covid didn't arrive and we had full stadiums at home ,Who thinks Roy would be still in charge ? I think Roy and the board are being shielded from major fan unrest at our tactics and performances.

This is so true!!

 
Noz Flag North Hampshire 09 Jan 21 3.57pm

This is how I know how bad we were last night:

1. I did not raise my voice or shout at the screen once.
2. No expletives were uttered.
3. There were no mystery broken pieces of furniture, scrapes or broken glasses anywhere in my room.
4. I had no bruises on my fist from where I did not slam my hand on the desk once at my abject disgust of the teams performance.
5. I gave a perfectly rationable response to the missus when she asked me how the game was.
6. I had no desire to peruse the holmesdale.net, or any other football material after the game.
7. I really don't care that i havent seen the RH post match interview.

We were utter Sh8t.

 
Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 09 Jan 21 4.05pm

Originally posted by Noz

This is how I know how bad we were last night:

1. I did not raise my voice or shout at the screen once.
2. No expletives were uttered.
3. There were no mystery broken pieces of furniture, scrapes or broken glasses anywhere in my room.
4. I had no bruises on my fist from where I did not slam my hand on the desk once at my abject disgust of the teams performance.
5. I gave a perfectly rationable response to the missus when she asked me how the game was.
6. I had no desire to peruse the holmesdale.net, or any other football material after the game.
7. I really don't care that i havent seen the RH post match interview.

We were utter Sh8t.

To my mind we were even WORSE than that.

Not a shot on target or a chance created throughout the game.Unacceptable.

 
MKCPFC Flag Spain/MK 09 Jan 21 4.22pm

Originally posted by eagleman13

Did you notice how just turned his back when Traore shot for his goal, PvA couldve/shouldve put his body in the way. He wantx out & it shows.

Think it was Jairo turning away after taking years to decide to challenge after Eze just let him go.

 
Henry of Peckham Flag Eton Mess 09 Jan 21 4.32pm

Originally posted by AERO

Interesting thought ? If covid didn't arrive and we had full stadiums at home ,Who thinks Roy would be still in charge ? I think Roy and the board are being shielded from major fan unrest at our tactics and performances.

We don't improve and continually regress to the unskilled, disorganised rabble that we were last night. I cannot believe our board hasn't noticed yet.

 

Denial is not just a river in Egypt
Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 09 Jan 21 4.49pm

Originally posted by Henry of Peckham

We don't improve and continually regress to the unskilled, disorganised rabble that we were last night. I cannot believe our board hasn't noticed yet.

Mr Hodgson has met his objectives of keeping the club in the PL, and of course for 3 seasons, and one suspects they have confidence that he will do so again this campaign.
A Net Spend of about £10 Mill over 3 seasons, PL place secured season-on-season. Happy Days!

Edited by Willo (09 Jan 2021 4.50pm)

 
Rachid Rachid Rachid Flag 09 Jan 21 5.09pm

Originally posted by Wilesy01

The more I think about last night's performance and lack of any kind of tactics I wonder why Roy don't just play a team of kids, like what Villa did (although their hand was forced!!)

We would have learned an awful lot more from doing that, and since Roy obviously isn't fussed about progressing, as is the case in every cup comp under him, he could have given the entire team a rest.

I think he used it as an opportunity to give game time to players who hadn’t been playing regularly or had recently returned from injury. Hence the strange set up, square pegs etc.

 
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