Barclays Premier League 13/14 Thread

[NickisBHAFC]

First topic message reminder :

Lamela is the biggest waste of money ever

[westisbest]

Another tough game today for the Villa.
We just dont seem to perform at home, (man city aside).

Then there is the Martinez factor.
Done well with Wigan at VP.

The 2 Belgian lads up front should be interesting, although Tekkers may start on the bench.

Going for a 1-1 draw.

[CFCNick]

I see Palace are playing half a striker up top today. That's one whole striker more than Monday night.

[NickisBHAFC]

You won't see a cracking match of 3-2 like you saw Brighton vs Arsenal in the fa cup, at Selhurst Park today.

Already completely one sided game, Palace 3 man midfield of Jedinak, Dikagaoci and Guedoura im sorry that is just average championship midfield at very best.

[CFCNick]

I'm off to work now anyway. 85% possession for Arsenal.

[mystiroakey]

Palace playing well so far. Well set in defence . Fans singing non stop. Hitting then abit on the break.

[mystiroakey]

Nick palace have had cracking games in the cup v villa and Man U in recent years. This is the Premier league..

[NickisBHAFC]

I would more or less or surviving rather than playing well, because you haven't done much playing! You're fans are in full voice though, getting right behind the club, good on them, need to remember those players beat us 2-0, would of been the best night of there life.

[compelling and rich]

11 men behind the ball, like watching a pullis team this  

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I've never seen such misguided trumpet blowing of ones club

[NickisBHAFC]

Exactly im not being rude, but putting 11 men behind the ball is hardly "playing well"

[mystiroakey]

I think he is talking about Brighton nick

[NickisBHAFC]

Brighton aren't playing? Don't know about you im watching palace vs arsenal

[mystiroakey]

11 men behind the ball, like watching a pullis team this  

The problem with pullis is he may play like this against teams like Brighton . This is the top team in the prem possession  wise and probably quality wise.

[mystiroakey]

And yet all you are doing is trumpeting your club

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I was talking about Brighton.

Palace are playing well. Theres more to football than all out attack

[NickisBHAFC]

Christ i was talking about Compelling and rich comment. 11 men behind the ball is boring and is hardly good football.

[NickisBHAFC]

Chamakh with a good ping, wow anything less than a 2-0 win for Arsenal should be classed as embarrassment.

[mystiroakey]

Lol . No worries nick..

[NickisBHAFC]

dw mate

tbf Palace starting to come into it, few shots on target. Although its not pretty, but they 100% need to stick this game plan and who knows on the break, dare to dream. But 100% stick to this gameplan, its working.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Its thoughts like that that saw you embarrassed by us in the Championship Nick. You play to the game, not just the same idea every game. Palace are second bottom, playing against a team who some would say deserved to beat Dortmund the other day. Set up your stall, be in the game, break when you can.

Arsenal have had ineffective possession. Good for them, its little to no consequence

[NickisBHAFC]

Its thoughts like that that saw you embarrassed by us in the Championship Nick. You play to the game, not just the same idea every game. Palace are second bottom, playing against a team who some would say deserved to beat Dortmund the other day. Set up your stall, be in the game, break when you can.

Arsenal have had ineffective possession. Good for them, its little to no consequence

Or our keeper was at fault for all 6 goals I remember that day good day out, was so drunk it clicked at half time we were 3-0 down! I just remember giving Rob Green a stupid amount of abuse, and lets say i got a few ch-omps from him!!! We couldn't cope that day.

[Duty281]

There's more to football than being good on the ball.

There's also being good off the ball, and that's where Palace are doing well so far today. Now, as a consequence, they're starting to do better on the ball.

[compelling and rich]

my tongue was firmly in my cheek with the 11 men behind the ball comment, exactly the right tactics against arsenal and palace are doing well.

it was just a bit of a wind up to all those saying they wouldn't want pullis because of his style yet will praise palaces performance here

[mystiroakey]

Bannan doing well. Good to see him playing. 

If we can keep it 0-0 into half way through the second half or go a goal down . Get gayle on that pace can hurt him.. Chamack doing a lot which is nice but he knows this team so expected .

[mystiroakey]

my tongue was firmly in my cheek with the 11 men behind the ball comment, exactly the right tactics against arsenal and palace are doing well.

it was just a bit of a wind up to all those saying they wouldn't want pullis because of his style yet will praise palaces performance here

I knew exactly what you meant mate..  It hit home..

[mystiroakey]

Great half.. 

[Duty281]

I told you to be positive mysti! Good half for Palace.

[mystiroakey]

Holloway would never have played this team.. 

Anyway . Win lose or draw from here , as long as we keep up the performance level it puts us In a much better position to get decent manager.. There is a glimmer of hope.

[mystiroakey]

That lasted long..

[compelling and rich]

terrible terrible challenge, what was he thinking

[mystiroakey]

Come on PALACE ultras get singing again

[kingraf]

I thought the floodgates would open after that goal... May have been mistaken

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Awful decision

[guildfordbat]

Awful decision

Why?

He was the last man and it was a goalscoring opportunity.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

40 yards from goal, ball not under his control, touch taking it a little away from the goal and its a coming together foul rather than a lunge or trip

[compelling and rich]

Red for me, professional foul knew what he was doing. No reason to touch him there other than to stop him getting a chance on goal

[mystiroakey]

If that was against palace I would have been raging. But laws are laws

[compelling and rich]

The bad touch was the only thing that might have saved arteta dont care how far out it is there was no cover and arteta had been beaten

[mystiroakey]

The reality is you can feel harshly judged because that sort of situation doesn't allways give a red. But the laws are clear.

And in fairness palace could have been level ...

Come on palace take advantage..

[kingraf]

Chamakh could be goalside with only the crossbar to beat and I wouldn't consider that a goalscoring opportunity.

[guildfordbat]

The reality is you can feel harshly judged because that sort of situation doesn't allways give a red. But the laws are clear.
.

Agree with mysti's first sentence. The second is where I was coming from.

[compelling and rich]

Chamakh could be goalside with only the crossbar to beat and I wouldn't consider that a goalscoring opportunity.

 true

Although you could say chamaks rubbishness equals artetas slowness

[mystiroakey]

Maybe arsenal can counter..

Oh well..

Nor bad overall.

[mystiroakey]

Yes we get the moral victory.

Schesney gets MOTM...

[kingraf]

Love seeing guys like Giroud do well. Pity he seems to nice to give his seemingly endless supply of critics the bird.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

One double save makes MOTM. Interesting.

[guildfordbat]

Chamakh could be goalside with only the crossbar to beat and I wouldn't consider that a goalscoring opportunity.

Reminds of the old story concerning Lancs batsman 'Little' Harry Pilling who stood at 5 foot nothing and was probably the smallest man to ever play county cricket. When an lbw appeal against Harry was turned down on the grounds that the ball was 'too high', the aggrieved bowler turned to the umpire and exclaimed, 'Too high?! If it had hit him on the head, it wouldn't have been too f***ing high!'.  

[Guest]

Love seeing guys like Giroud do well. Pity he seems to nice to give his seemingly endless supply of critics the bird.

He'll most likely be the reason Arsenal don't win anything at the end of the season. Yeah, might seem harsh on him but he's truly awful. I'm sorry he was appalling today, if it's not on a plate then he can't do anything. No pace either which at the top level just does not frighten anyone. You'll disagree & I know he's got eight goals but he is not good enough. It's going well so far but once the tough games appear & he's up against geniune quality defenders he will be anonymous.

Great effort by Palace, just no quality.

[Champagne_Socialist]

Chamakh fouled Arteta. The replay showed that chamakh ran into arteta and it was chamakh who initiated the contact.

[Guest]

#headgone @Champagne_Socialist

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