Ratings and Reactions: Palace 1-0 Villa

[shaggy]

I posted last week that he has to go at the end of the season. I was wrong. He has to go NOW!!!

[myko]

[nobler]

Horrifically poor tactical display today. This can't go on. We're skint, yes, but it's like having a child in charge with absolutely no tactical nous or ability to notice problems and begin to rectify them. It's just one tactic, all or nothing and watch it deteriorate in front of your eyes. This guy has shown nothing to me that he can take this club forward. I actually can't believe it, how did we end up like this?

[andyh]

So, was that just ANOTHER bad day at the office?

[thunderball]

Poor players, poor manager, poor tactics, no heart or fight. No hope (this time last year at least we had that).

[mikeyjavfc]

The parallels with the last days of Eck are palpable. Sacked after the last game of the season after scraping safety?

[OutByEaster?]

5-3-2 wasn't a bad idea, but to do it well you need strikers who can make it work - Gabby was dreadful today, he needs a huge kick up the arse, Holt isn't good enough and shouldn't be playing. 

 

Not being able to see that the game was getting away from us in the second half and then doing nothing to change it when every single fan in the country could see what was happening next is I think possibly the worst thing Lambert has done since he arrived. It was so obvious that Palace would score that a child could have seen it. The manager will struggle to turn this around and I fear for him.

 

Back line did okay, midfield was alright, officials were good and the Palace fans are excellent - in the long term this might yet be a result that benefits everyone.

 

In the short term I'll be a lot happier when we're mathematically safe.

[villianusa]

 

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This may be the main reason we stay up this season. 

 

Lambert won't do anything to help us. I agree with many who don't see where our next win will come from. 

 

No idea, no fight, no manager!

[ermie123]

We go again and again and again!!!!!!

[villa4europe]

cant do the voting because absolutely no one stood out for MOTM

 

tactics were **** awful

 

ref was ok, he made the huge mistake with the handball but at least had the sense to overturn it, palace bought a lot of cheap free kicks but he certainly got the miskick penalty shout spot on and IMO the guzan one was something of nothing, shearer will no doubt say palace should ahve had 3 penalties tonight

[Villain4Life]

Still possible to stay up with 34 points and a reasonable GD ...

 

Norwich has some tough games coming up and Cardiff and Fulham and Sunderland and Norwich all have worse GD than us.

 

If just 3 out of those 5 don't reach 35 points, we get another season in the PL

[VillaAlex]

It's not the fact we lost, it's that it was so obvious they were eventually going to score. What did he do? Sat there and changed nothing.

 

How many warnings did we need. The three penalty shouts? The Jerome shot off the bar? The countless pressure? Did we even make it into their box in the second half before they scored?

 

It's indefensible... We had Albrighton our best player in the past month sitting there for most of the game, while we created next to nothing. Weimann too despite his form...

 

Instead we persisted with Gabby who has done next to nothing all year, and Holt who quite frankly isn't the quality of player to do anything on his own.

 

Absolute disgrace, I fail to see how someone couldn't do better? Where is the passion? Where is the inventiveness? Where is the direction?

[TRO]

I don't think it matters what line up you choose what bit of attitude was at the club,has died.....its going to be extremely difficult to stay up in my view.

 

It doesn't matter who you bring on, the players that can make that bit of difference are injured....We have just drifted in to this position by sheer bad management at all levels of the club, too many misjudgments and false philosophies.

[squirdle]

If someone told me that Lerner and Lambert were deliberately trying to put us in the Championship, I would probably believe them!

[Bunnski]

 

Horrible again.  It was a team of battlers vs a team of bottlers.  Lambert should of made the sub around 60-65 minutes as Palace had us pinned in and we couldn't get out. It was obvious that we needed a change. Meh..............

[dounavilla]

Listen everyone I think we have to take a reality check ........

[KitKat]

Just about enough effort from the players but set up totally wrong. Absolutely no service to the front two, and not enough movement in any area of the ptich for us to really threaten Palace until we made the disasterously late subs.

 

I'm a big fan of Lambert, but this was absolutely pathetic.

 

4 losses in a row and relegation should not be anywhere near our radar and yet we find ourselves in our 4th successive season looking over our shoulders and hoping there are 3 teams worse than we are.

[stewiek2]

The parallels with the last days of Eck are palpable. Sacked after the last game of the season after scraping safety?

Deal. I'll bite your hand off for that right now.

[KSV]

Fulham wont go down.

 

Cardiff winning is a worry now too. Will they go on a run?

 

Sunderland are gone. Norwich likely. We still could go down so i am not sure why people think we are safe?

[squirdle]

Still possible to stay up with 34 points and a reasonable GD ...

 

Norwich has some tough games coming up and Cardiff and Fulham and Sunderland and Norwich all have worse GD than us.

 

If just 3 out of those 5 don't reach 35 points, we get another season in the PL

To do what?