I thought this thread was the kiss of death when I saw it. Certainly suffering from coming up against a number of new managers. Even Southampton who are clearly struggling will probably have a new manager in place ready for our game.

Watford surely is winnable and hopefully Southampton

The fickleness of the PL in which teams can go from hero to zero in lightning speed. What McArthur's absence has highlighted is our lack of quality in reserve in the centre of the pitch. Hopefully Eze's return to fitness should help address that though.

With a packed winter schedule and a limited squad we need to win games like the one at Leeds i.e. catching teams when they are struggling. Man Utd is now looking like a big task, whereas a week ago I'd have fancied us. It's sh!t timing given the same happened with Newcastle and Villa.

He's just back from injury. Think it was his back. Might not have 90 in him. In fact not likely to have a full match yet.

Red and Blue Army!

Typical Palace would be to win at Manure and lose the other 3

MODS can you edit the thread to Can Palace win their next 5 Games.

Pro USA & Israel

The performances on the whole have been good this season.
Over the last three games the results have not been good and the performances have been patchy.
The earlier very good performances had raised expectations and perhaps these were unrealistic.
However, I think we’ll be ok as long as we don’t panic.
The new way of playing will mean conceding goals through errors and the set piece mistakes are concerning.
I felt a few games ago that Benteke and Edouard were building a promising understanding in terms of reading each other’s game.
Since then it’s been a case of using either/or which is a shame as I think there would be goals in such a partnership , but it may not suit Vieira’s seemingly preferred 4-3-3.