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1-3 Banks free kick 93min assist CG

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When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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CG showed a lot of good work.

Great display by Palace a great win especially bcause of the refs best effort to ruin it . a lot of promising players on the brink , Street was very good as was banks and the other on Saiki ray ( cant remember his name} Guehi looks like he has played there all his life .

Yep

That wasn't bad at all. When we went down a man you wonder, pre-season, how the team will react but I must say that I really enjoyed the game.

I know it's very, very early days but I could see that we could be a team that plays some good football, which I couldn't always say about Palace for a little while..

Some or at least one of the younger players should be able to get a few games in the Premiership under Vieira, Scott Banks looks like he could have a real future here, he's looked really good this pre-season. Mitchell and Guehi had a good game, as did Conor Gallagher. In fact the major errors today were made by the senior players.

I really hope this comes good, as for me this was another step in the right direction.

P.S. And when you think of the players that didn't play...

"You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead"

Stan Laurel

Not fair on Roy that. He played Eze throughout despite the opposition and his not being a natural fit for the system. He schooled him through the season and he was noticeably more effective off the ball by season's end

He did us a big favour there as Eze success is likely a lure to other starlets - we're a club where you can get minutes. Compare and contrast Benrahma at West Ham - very few starts.