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View TheBigToePunt's Profile TheBigToePunt Flag 04 Feb 21 5.43pm Send a Private Message to TheBigToePunt Add TheBigToePunt as a friend

They will certainly be open and positive, and we certainly won't be.

Normally that makes it a question of whether we can hold out against a team moving the ball around in our half for ages at a time, and whether we can get enough on the break to hurt them, but this might be different.

Bielsa is often cited as this kind of crazy professor that inspired a generation of top coaches, and his football is certainly unique.

I've watched Leeds a bit recently, and they are a funny lot. They seem to somehow be less of a possession based side than you might think, and mostly look to play on the counter themselves, but in a mad, balls-out sort of way, with half a dozen of them sprinting forwards across the width of the pitch every time they win it back.

Guardiola once described Bielsa's Bilbao tactics as: 'It's crazy. They all run forward, then they all run back again'. That might not sound unusual, but they literally all do sprint up and down all game, hence his teams getting knackered as the season goes on.

Hopefully we'll catch them as the heavy legs begin to bite.

2-0 to us, with both sides missing four or five great chances.

 

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View Petts Wood Eagle's Profile Petts Wood Eagle Flag Petts Wood 04 Feb 21 5.47pm Send a Private Message to Petts Wood Eagle Add Petts Wood Eagle as a friend

Mateta to start, scores a hat trick, thus becoming an instant Palace hero.

Jeez lockdown is getting to me

 

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View ASCPFC's Profile ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 04 Feb 21 5.47pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

I don't think Bielsa is a top coach by only having one style. He may well have noticed how we struggle to open up teams if we have the ball. All they need to do is sit pretty deep and counter attack with long balls and that will cause us problems.

 


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View crystal-purley's Profile crystal-purley Flag Purley 04 Feb 21 10.20pm Send a Private Message to crystal-purley Add crystal-purley as a friend

For me it's 2-0 to us. I do worry that the successful 4231 formation may well be without Wilf and therefore one of the three is missing and possibly replaced by Andros.

 


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View Fatherken's Profile Fatherken Flag 04 Feb 21 10.56pm Send a Private Message to Fatherken Add Fatherken as a friend

Time to show that we can win without Wilf 2 - 0 Palace

 

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View esox lucius's Profile esox lucius Flag Deal 04 Feb 21 11.02pm Send a Private Message to esox lucius Add esox lucius as a friend

Leeds do tend too blow a bit hot and cold, they had a new pitch laid last week, against Everton players were going down all over he place. Maybe no Wilf maybe Matete will start, Leeds won’t be prepared for him, so be prepared for anything could be 0 - 0 or 3 - 3

 

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View doombear's Profile doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 04 Feb 21 11.24pm Send a Private Message to doombear Add doombear as a friend

Originally posted by Petts Wood Eagle

Mateta to start, scores a hat trick, thus becoming an instant Palace hero.

Jeez lockdown is getting to me


I've had the same daydream, so it must be down to 'lockdown fever' (I've now got pictures in my mind of the Muppets singing 'Cabin Fever').

 

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View Eaglehamster's Profile Eaglehamster Flag Storrington 04 Feb 21 11.27pm Send a Private Message to Eaglehamster Add Eaglehamster as a friend

Who TF knows? We're Palace!

 


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View pstrutt's Profile pstrutt Flag Busselton, WA 05 Feb 21 5.42am Send a Private Message to pstrutt Add pstrutt as a friend

Originally posted by thai-eagle

If no WZ, it will be a very difficult game. You never know with this Leeds side...

This - because Leeds press forward and counter effectively and Wilf takes two players or more out of the game whenever he has the ball.

 


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View Gribbo's Profile Gribbo Flag Bromley 05 Feb 21 7.38am Send a Private Message to Gribbo Add Gribbo as a friend

If Wilf cannot play, then I am looking forward to the commentator keeping the viewers informed about our previous performances in his absence.

 

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View Nicholas91's Profile Nicholas91 Flag The Democratic Republic of Kent 05 Feb 21 8.33am Send a Private Message to Nicholas91 Add Nicholas91 as a friend

Originally posted by Gribbo

If Wilf cannot play, then I am looking forward to the commentator keeping the viewers informed about our previous performances in his absence.

Yes, would be interesting to hear and know the statistics for how we've got on when he has not been in the team. I'm dying to know!

 


Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

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View Croydon-Trucker's Profile Croydon-Trucker Flag 05 Feb 21 8.43am Send a Private Message to Croydon-Trucker Add Croydon-Trucker as a friend

Originally posted by ASCPFC

I don't think Bielsa is a top coach by only having one style. He may well have noticed how we struggle to open up teams if we have the ball. All they need to do is sit pretty deep and counter attack with long balls and that will cause us problems.

Agreed , if he is the master tactician, the Roy must be the next big Barcelona manager . We beat them 3-1 if memory serves me right . ( with a little help from VAR)

 

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