I'm sorry, but although we won, that was turgid and dull and all the time we were 1-0 up, Mateta was never going to get his debut. In fact it was not working all the time Batshyuai was on the pitch, yet unless we were losing, Roy was never going to sub him. He did after we went in the lead, but only brought Townsend to shore up the game.

It was still beyond dull. Mateta will only end up making a few appearances from the bench this season if he is lucky. We are treading water under Hodgson.

Its not 100% but its Saturday night and FFS we have won.

Happy days.

Let's just enjoy the 3pts

Edited by gaz1959 (30 Jan 2021 6.08pm)

We are struggling at present for form so please just accept the win and move on! Great result COYP.

With all these "poor" teams around Palace will be fine this season.

Definitely not. We were our usual s***e but luckily that was one of the worst performances from an opposition team Ive seen for a long time.
Batshuayi I thought was appalling so look forward to seeing him or his useless mate start against Newcastle and Jairo didn't put a foot wrong with excellent vision, movement and passing, don't think he gave it away once so look forward to him sitting on the bench against Newcastle.

We've been on a poor run with some worrying performances, particularly defensively, and you shouldn't underestimate what a 1-0 win does psycologically for the players compared with another defeat.

The commentators made a point about Wolves generally being strong defensively and Chelsea failed to beat them the other night.