Thought he got a touch after Kouyate but okay if wrong?

Don’t disagree, we have 3 better players in Cahill, Tomkins and Sakho than those two. We also play the ball out from the back better with them. Hopefully Hodgson has seen tonight that they need to come back in. Kouyate will be better in midfield as well with perhaps Reidewald. McCarthur looking off the pace these days. With that said this team will win the next 3 and I will be eating my words :-)

my bullet points
Burnley pressed very well we had to play facing our own goal
They got their goal from an up an under.
Palace didnt impose themselves in the game or had any idea how to get back into the game once burnley scored.
Palace eze and batsuyai need to practise together.
Benteke does have a presence on the pitch but will not score this season if he cant put that chance away, FFS the keeper leant forward and closed his eyes.

Ive said before ROY can only play one way if we score first its normally ok. But we havent come from behind to get a win or a point ? for a long long time.

COYP

Surely that’s it for Townsend now. Yet another dreadful display from a player who gets an easier ride than anyone I have ever known. Eze was excellent and it was a really good display from Clyne, but so many of the usual 7/10 merchants had a stinker. We must play Sakho in games like this to get passing moves going. Jimmy Mac was poor, the CBs were off their game and Ayew’s inconsistency is becoming a problem. As for the myth Batshuayi, I just don’t know how he has such a big reputation. But hopefully we will have Wilf back and will make no mistake on Friday against a side every bit as bad as Burnley.

Townsend should be on the bench. He took almost all the set pieces. Looked like Eze deferred to him when he is much better at free kicks and corners. In the absence of Zaha he was given the ball out wide and couldn’t hit a half decent cross.

Bats is only good enough for the bench too. We have at least learned that we should keep our cash in the summer and let him go backt to Chelski.

Despite his shortcomings we looked more likely when Benteke came on. He should be up front until we find someone better.

We need to build our team round Eze and Banks

Agree with this and many of the other comments.

Very poor tonight...and this against a team without a win or a home goal this season, until they play us of course!

Batshuayi should really have salvaged a point for us and that was an awful miss when one on one with the keeper.

The Leeds scoreline massively flattered us and but for the mistake by the VAR we may well have lost that game.

Playing with such apathy as we did today, I don’t expect us to get anything from the Newcastle game and perhaps a point against WBA, if we’re lucky. Results like the one against Burnley tonight are far more of an accurate representation of where we are with our woeful performances and ageing squad. We will be 15th in the table before Xmas and let’s just hope that Sheffield United, Fulham & WBA continue to lose far more than they win otherwise we will be in yet another drawn out relegation battle.