Talldarkandransome Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 This has got rout written all over it, Watkins goal and Zaha to actually cry himself into an early bath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) Great win last weekend against a team fighting for their lives, but we were dogged, stood firm and our quality shone through in the end.Now is this the battle for 11th place right here? It would certainly be good to keep Palace at arms length going into the final 13 games. Buendia has to come back into the starting line up, especially after his decent cameo and goal last weekend. Moreno starts for me, as does Young again. No sure where Olsen is or if he’s fit, so I’ll go with the two young keepers on the bench again. Zaha returning is obviously a concern for us but I’m hoping he’ll only be fit enough for a place on the bench. Martinez Young Konsa Mings Moreno Kamara Luiz McGinn Ramsey Buendia Watkins Subs: Sinisalo, Zych, Cash, Digne, Chambers, *Dendoncker, Traore, Bailey, Duran It will be a frustrating watch I feel with Palace wanting to keep it tight, but hopefully we can break them down and Watkins has six goals in six consecutive games. 1-0 win here I reckon. UTV *Edit: Looks like Dendoncker will be absent tomorrow, so we may need to call up Raikhy or another from the U21 group. Edited March 3, 2023 by ferguson1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted March 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) I think this has defeat written all over it tbh. We'll play a high line and get exposed on the break imo. We're not very good at playing at home the way Emery wants us too. Gonna take time. Edited March 3, 2023 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Well poop. Zaha in the squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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briny_ear Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Good chance to measure how far we have come since the 1-3 in our disastrous start to the season. This is pretty much a must win for me. Sorry to see Coutinho is injured. Bad news about Dendoncker as well. An ultra cautious defensively tight 1-0 would suit me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 id take a scrappy 1-0 win, not fussed about the performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoyman Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 This and Bournemouth are the two games I'm most keen to see strong performances in after the disastrous away fixtures You know things are bad if Palace fans are chanting "eez jast too good for yew" about your complete inability to deal with Wilf Zaha ffs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 4 hours ago, briny_ear said: Good chance to measure how far we have come since the 1-3 in our disastrous start to the season. This is pretty much a must win for me. Sorry to see Coutinho is injured. Bad news about Dendoncker as well. An ultra cautious defensively tight 1-0 would suit me. Every time I say this we lose 4-2 or 3-1 Therefore, I'm going to say I hope we win 6-0. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Emery has answered the question that everyone here has been asking… Why put 3 goalkeepers in the matchday squad? He said it’s because he wants 3 goalkeepers to be there in pre-match and warm up for the outfield players to have shooting practice. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 After a couple dodgy weeks we once again have an opportunity to get into the top half of the table. Therefore we're going to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 I would be happy with an early lead, Zaha stretchered off and us down to ten, and a backs to the wall one goal victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 20 hours ago, VillaChris said: Table will look like this though if these results happen: Villa 2-0 Palace Chelsea 2-1 Leeds Liverpool 1-2 Man. United Brighton 1-1 West Ham Brentford 2-1 Fulham 6th Liverpool- 39 points 7th Fulham- 39 points 8th- Brentford- 38 points 9th Brighton - 36 points 10th Chelsea- 34 points 11th Villa- 34 points This weekend could be the first one of the season where we could legitimately say we're in contention for europe as 5 points to 6th with still a third of the season to play is really nothing. Newcastle should lose to Man. City aswell so they would be in reach aswell given they still have to come to VP. Nothing is ever predictable though. If you are right with those outcomes I will be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 3, 2023 Author Share Posted March 3, 2023 Weird stat- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 9 hours ago, burchy said: They’re on a shit run at the moment and we all know Villa like to be nice and give teams like this an easy 3 points. Would be nice to be proven wrong though. Has that really happened much this season? I mean when we played Leeds and Southampton both hadn't won for ages and we won v both. O.k start of season we lost to West Ham who'd lost their first three games but we have a terrible record v them and had ourselves a really poor start to the season. Leicester's the only game recently where that's applied and they had Maddison for that so really not that much between the teams when he's out there. Leicester could hurt us in ways I don't think Palace can so I'm more hopeful for tomorrow although of course us scoring the first would be a help as they can defend well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, PieFacE said: I think this has defeat written all over it tbh. We'll play a high line and get exposed on the break imo. We're not very good at playing at home the way Emery wants us too. Gonna take time. Who's exposing the high line? They might leave Zaha on the bench for all we know and throw him on after an hour, I can't remember too many standout games from him at VP down the years so he's easier to contain then at Selhurst. Likes of Eze and Olise are excellent ball carriers but neither are that quick and their central midfield options are very slow indeed. Emery really rates Zaha and tried to sign him for Arsenal in summer 2019 so a coach of his quality isn't going to be lax and just give him 20 yards of space to run into unless we're losing and there's a few minutes left. There will be a plan for Cash and whichever midfield is near to him to contain him. Edited March 3, 2023 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 3, 2023 On 02/03/2023 at 12:45, Demitri_C said: The beat us with ease at selhurst so we need to ensure we get even. Ollie missed some chances if im not mistaken im hoping he will keep up his rich rein of form Not sure about that mate, if that shot of Baileys had not hit the bar and gone in, I reckon we would’ve won Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 3, 2023 Author Share Posted March 3, 2023 I can't wait for the big soccer game tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Wainy316 said: We could win or lose 38 games in a row and we'd still be 11th. This must be a record for the same team to hold the exact same position after x amount of games? Excluding top or bottom Edited March 3, 2023 by Kingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 10 hours ago, ferguson1 said: Great win last weekend against a team fighting for their lives, but we were dogged, stood firm and our quality shone through in the end.Now is this the battle for 11th place right here? It would certainly be good to keep Palace at arms length going into the final 13 games. Buendia has to come back into the starting line up, especially after his decent cameo and goal last weekend. Moreno starts for me, as does Young again. No sure where Olsen is or if he’s fit, so I’ll go with the two young keepers on the bench again. Zaha returning is obviously a concern for us but I’m hoping he’ll only be fit enough for a place on the bench. Martinez Young Konsa Mings Moreno Kamara Luiz McGinn Ramsey Buendia Watkins Subs: Sinisalo, Zych, Cash, Digne, Chambers, *Dendoncker, Traore, Bailey, Duran It will be a frustrating watch I feel with Palace wanting to keep it tight, but hopefully we can break them down and Watkins has six goals in six consecutive games. 1-0 win here I reckon. UTV *Edit: Looks like Dendoncker will be absent tomorrow, so we may need to call up Raikhy or another from the U21 group. Bollocks to that, We need a 4th choice keeper available incase something happens to the other 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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