After watching the Mitchell horror show last night I am completely torn on who is the better player. We need a new left back.

It was Eze of course but this is the result of Roy playing a 433 - the formation which many Palace fans have been demanding for a while.

Not only is this formation bad for Eze as the midfield trio are expected to sit - it will also be bad for Wilf when he returns to the side as the wingers will be expected to track back.

The advantage of the Roy Hodgson 442 is that it allows Wilf to stay forward & drift freely in attacking situations. And despite the fact he is expected to hold his shape whilst we are defending, it also allows Eze to come inside behind the 2 front men when we have possession. It's the exact same role RLC played to great effect & it suits Eze.

Of course many Palace fans will scream "well just play a more attacking 433 then!", but it's really not as simple as that. This isn't a game of FIFA. Our best centre back is 35 years old & lacks the pace to play a high line. Whilst this remains the case, we have to set up with a certain level of defensive protection - whether that comes through a 442 or a 433. If we hadn't done that up until this point, we would be relegated.

If we go with the 433, for large parts of the game we will be set up as, effectively, a 451 & Eze will be playing a far more defensive role. We already saw that with Max Meyer during his time at the club.

Out of the 2 formations, under Roy, the 442 is better & suits both Wilf & Eze more.

We're the Arthur over ere!

Lost? Playing the Roy H. way no wonder ball-players get lost. Eze and Riedewald are in fact two proper footballers not suited to our ultra-defensive set-up.

Eze just won player of the month but other than that.. yeah I guess a "Roy out" cult member is spot on as always.

We're the Arthur over ere!

Eze and Mitchell were poor for whatever reason, but I'd vote for Luka. Didn't see him apart from apology act to avoid another yellow. I kinda like him but has been consistently poor this season.

I thought we played 4-5-1 last night?

The formation isn't really the focal point for me, more the fact we were obviously intending to sit very deep. If you sit that deep the formation becomes a bit moot as you will just end up looking like two banks of bodies defending for lives as we did last night. I'm guessing that Eze was there to fulfil his defensive duties, as was every other man, but also in the hope he might get us up the pitch or play a killer pass at some point when we had a rare venture outside our own half.

Further games are a different matter but last night (despite my stance on RH) I felt it was the right call to play almost all out defence and it just didn't happen for Eze. He's in his first PL season and has had some great moments so far and most importantly we got the win last night so I'm really not that fussed by one game. Perhaps McCarthy is better suited to that type of game defensively but I don't think he holds as much potential to skip past a few players and take us up the pitch. You could argue both opinions with validity.

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