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View The Dolphin's Profile The Dolphin Flag 10 Feb 22 7.02am Send a Private Message to The Dolphin Add The Dolphin as a friend

Originally posted by Croydon-Trucker

And who to play right back then ?

Clyne. Better defender

 

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View slubglurge's Profile slubglurge Flag welling 10 Feb 22 7.05am Send a Private Message to slubglurge Add slubglurge as a friend

I love Wardy but he really sttuggles at times. Put a bid in for Forest loanee Spence, he'd be brilliant for us and has pace to burn

 

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View The Dolphin's Profile The Dolphin Flag 10 Feb 22 7.06am Send a Private Message to The Dolphin Add The Dolphin as a friend

Originally posted by palace chick

Well I thought Zaha had he’s best game in months for us. Hardly saw him moaning tonight. He looked nearly like the Zaha of old to me. As for the team, the problem is that if it wasn’t for Zaha’s worldly goal we wouldn’t have drawn. We could have won after that with the penalty and perhaps we wouldn’t be moaning now? We were too slow in our build up and unlike the first part of the season we aren’t getting numbers in the box. The penalty move and one Schlupp pass back from the goal line was the most dangerous moves. Olise didn’t get past his marker other than cutting in or passing back. Not having a go at him but the team aren’t moving forward enough or being adventurous. It’s just easy to pass it back / sideways rather than going for the throat and getting the ball / players in the box. The substitutes, especially the last two also made us weaker which was a shame. They just fitted in playing the same way without giving us an edge - strange?

Top post. I am with you 100%.

Edited by The Dolphin (10 Feb 2022 7.07am)

 

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View Spiderman's Profile Spiderman Flag Horsham 10 Feb 22 7.40am Send a Private Message to Spiderman Add Spiderman as a friend

Originally posted by sprites

Ratings from me:

Guiata: 7.
Didn't have much to do...might feel like he should've got a hand to the goal but a pretty standard performance.

Ward: 3.
Love him. Club legend. But was exposed badly today. Need an upgrade, stat.

Andersen: 7.
A few trademark nice balls driven to the wings. Not much else to do. Could done better and picked up Puuki for the goal.

Guehi: 9.
Looks absolute mustard. Calm, composed and knows when to step out of defence really well.

Mitchell: 9. MOM.
An awesome performance. Still looks wobbly going forward, but hopefully that will come. Decision making beyond his years today.

Schlupp: 6.
Hard to rate. Didn't affect the game much but equally didn't do much wrong.

Gallagher: 7.
Buzzed around keeping busy and was at the heart of most promising attacks. Underwhelming compared to his usual high standards, but that's hardly his fault.

Hughes: 7.
Kept things ticking along nicely too. Nothing flash...but every team needs one of these. Now a mainstay in the team.

Zaha: 5.
Gets a 5 and not a 3 purely because of his worldie goal. Other than that, abysmal. Gave the ball away. Passed backwards. Afraid to take his man on. Missed a pen trying to be too clever. Just smash it.

Olise: 6.
Not as effective as recent weeks. Always offered an outlet and gets fans off their seat...but little productivity today.

Mateta: 5.
Offered very little. Lumbered around...a couple of nice runs but don't think he's warranted a start against Brentford.

You did notice Wilf slipped as he went to hit the penalty right? Clive Allen called it straight away, he wasn’t trying to be to clever. Apart from that agree with you on his overall performance and your ratings

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 10 Feb 22 8.00am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Spiderman

You did notice Wilf slipped as he went to hit the penalty right? Clive Allen called it straight away, he wasn’t trying to be to clever. Apart from that agree with you on his overall performance and your ratings

Beckham did the same thing for England. Unfortunately if you do not take a straight run there is always the possibility of this happening. If I was Wilf I would change his run up.

 


One more point

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View thai-eagle's Profile thai-eagle Flag chiang mai 10 Feb 22 8.11am Send a Private Message to thai-eagle Add thai-eagle as a friend

Pretty sure Wilf will change his run next time around. But good to see him without all his usual tantrums yesterday, think we will experience the "old" Zaha in the coming weeks.
Ward is a trusted, long-serving servant, but his expiry date has long gone.
Happy to see Benteke left on the bench, hope Schlupp starts there as well vs Brentford. If MacArthur fit, a straight switch keeping Conor G. and Hughes.
Lads, please up the tempo when playing out from the back. And would love to see Andersen going more forward as Guehi (brilliant display) did on Carrow Road. Likewise, the Dane should play more of his diagonal, long passes and not hit the ball straight ahead.
Impressing not to lose head after 0-1 after 38 seconds!

 

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View Croydon-Trucker's Profile Croydon-Trucker Flag 10 Feb 22 8.14am Send a Private Message to Croydon-Trucker Add Croydon-Trucker as a friend

Originally posted by The Dolphin

Clyne. Better defender

I dont know about that one , PV obviously see Ward as a better option ,but with Clyne on 80k per week he should be playing alot more . I think the time has come to retire both of them in the summer and get some fresh legs in for the right back position .

 

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View mtp1958's Profile mtp1958 Flag Grays 10 Feb 22 8.36am Send a Private Message to mtp1958 Add mtp1958 as a friend

I have played in wards position and he got caught flat footed very early in the game and for the next 44mins he was on his own with a player who was on fire for 45mins 2nd half he was better , Wilf great goal , good dicipline , but overall they marked him out most of the time only 1 player needed to mark him ,but maybe he will start to show more of the old Wilf.

Bottom line when putting pressure on teams be more clinical in around the pen area , lets face it we should have 12 more points than we have

 

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 10 Feb 22 8.42am Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

His standing foot clearly slipped as we went to strike the ball. Dodgy pitch rather than dodgy pen in my opinion.

Mind you it looked terrible.

its the oldest trick in the book. A dodgy pitch for orthodox players, and all your own penalty takers are left-footers.

 


Eze Peasy at Anfield....

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View Oddball2021's Profile Oddball2021 Flag Adelaide 10 Feb 22 8.53am Send a Private Message to Oddball2021 Add Oddball2021 as a friend

It’s true about Ward being too slow, but the starting setup was wrong. Ward’s okay when a solid central midfielder is nearby. That’s why I would have preferred to have seen MacArthur, Milovoyevic or Kouyate in the starting lineup. PV goes and chucks in all these attackers. But it leaves us weak at the back. Ward was targeted throughout the match. But a defensive midfielder would have supported him and developed play upfield. PV isn’t so smart strategically imho.

 

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View MrRobbo's Profile MrRobbo Flag Purley 10 Feb 22 9.00am Send a Private Message to MrRobbo Add MrRobbo as a friend

The good to take of all of this:

70% of the ball away from home is quite special

Viera knows what the issues are so is well placed to address them

Wilf and Viera obviously have a good relationship, maybe he can ring Wilf back out of his shell

We've got more strength an depth than I can ever remember (in most departments) so we can start playing players in form vs best team on paper

Norwich are on a good run at the moment, they would have been targeting Palace at home as a must win game - and they didn't

 

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View palace chick's Profile palace chick Flag South Croydon 10 Feb 22 9.04am Send a Private Message to palace chick Add palace chick as a friend

Originally posted by Gary St.Andrews

We had 72% of the play tonight and I think 7 more strikes at goal than Norwich, we should have put this to bed, but how many time have we said this. I’m like a f***ing stuck record.

This might seem controversial, but I want to see Chek play at right back at Brentford, he covered there for West Ham and he can do it for us. Poor Wardy has no positional awareness at all, how many times was he outpaced tonight. Every side we play against know it’s our really weak spot.

On the other side, Mitchell had another great game with his timely interceptions. If we can get him more forward he will be a great asset, mind you he did win the pen!!

Mitchell had a great game and has Zaha covering him. They both complement each other. However Ward doesn’t get the support from Olise down the right the way Mitchell does on the left with Zaha. Ayew is much better supporting Ward than Olise and I expect he will start against Brentford? Olise makes a better impact coming on as sub as well. Ward had a tough time yesterday but I thought he played well.

 

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