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Murphy, ritchie, dummet, krafth, targett, almiron and, at a shove, longstaff, will all need to be moved on sooner rather than later and replaced with much higher quality players. I genuinely feel for the lad, he was good enough in the Ashley era i.e. bottom third of the prem, but he is way no where near for where we want to be.

I think our defence are petrified to pass it back to Dubs, it really showed last night where we needed an "extra" man at the back (keeper) and it was just not there. he is dog with the ball at his feet and makes our job a lot harder if we don´t have that extra outlet... When receiving a pass his control of the ball makes him need the extra half second and then his weight on the passes . Oh well... come on Popey! get well soon!

If we are looking for a ball passing centre back who is commanding in everything he does... look no further! I thought their set up 3-4-2-1 made their press so much harder to beat. they were confident with the pace of clyne and Muñoz to cover the wings whilst Anderson controlled any threat through the middle. Loved Eze, what a silky and fast player! Murphy, Krafth and Schar were all way below the passing levels required to beat a well organised press. oddly enough I though big Dan did allright passing the ball, just his defending for the goal was pretty poor... Good day at the office for them and a mediocre one for us. Seeing their depth off the bench as well?? I was jealous of palace being able to bring on decent level subs... Will be a couple more transfer windows before we can see little difference between onfield and subs

100% effort, just didn't quite come off... like most of our team tbf

Glad to see the back of him at the end of the season. Nervous every time he has the ball at his feet. We so needed a keeper who could play football tonight to beat their press

They pressed the life out of us. Defence was not capable of getting the ball out of our half, very slow passing and turning. Their front line looked dangerous every time they had the ball. Their full backs werenso aggressive (clyne and muñoz). They played better and we had no response

Attacking fwet

Mind you, Murphy was decent last week as a wing-back. Could well go the same way but with Tino on the left: Murph---shcar---burn---tino

I can´t see him going to another prem league club, it would be extremely short sighted on our behalf. A barcelona or madrid would not hurt so much and most brazilian players tend to see those as their dream destination...

Palace seem to have started to gel now and are showing the potential that everyone assumed they would have with the new manager. Out of the two teams playing at their best level we should have enough to squeeze a win here tonight. ---------------------Dubs---------------------- Tino------Krafty------Schar-----------Burn ---Longstaff------Bruno------Anderson--- Gordon---------Isak-------------Barnes--- Nice to have callum back on subs bench

Yep, really surprised me as i also had the scouse caricature in my head! What an amazing professional, really glad we are buying top professionals with superb attitudes... like he said; only way is up

Aye, deffo right winger and striker needed, more so if we sell miggy and calum. Defence injuries and age concerns need addressed asap, would like minimum one centre back and left back or 2 CBs (kelly). If we get Kelly he can cover both LB and LCB, would be a good signing! Up and coming defensive midfielder would be a big bonus, as people have commented; if Bruno gets injured we have no real back up.

I think Gallagher is over-rated, his effort is world class but his technical ability is not where we want to be. A glorified McTominay if you like...

I reckon Spurs will only get 6 or 7 points fron their run-in (the most difficult). We should get a minimum of 12 from a possible 18. Means we would need an exemplary winning streak of 6 games (not impossible with players coming back) to get into possible champions places (fifth).

Madrid are on fire at the moment, will be no stroll for Madrid. Very evenly matched for me...