Match Ratings: Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester City - Vote Now

[Mark]

Season: 2018/19
Voting Starts: 15/12/18
Voting Ends: 18/12/18

1. Kasper Schmeichel
2. Ricardo Pereira
3. Wes Morgan
4. Harry Maguire
5. Christian Fuchs
6. Nampalys Mendy
7. Wilfred Ndidi
8. Demarai Gray
9. James Maddison
10. Marc Albrighton
11. Jamie Vardy
12. Rachid Ghezzal (sub)
13. Kelechi Iheanacho (sub)
14. Shinji Okazaki (sub)

[Bazly]

There will be blood on the walls after another crap performance.

[urban.spaceman]

Seriously harsh on Shinji guys. 

[H.a.r.r.y]

38% manager confidence says it all really

[yorkie1999]

1 minute ago, H.a.r.r.y said:

38% manager confidence says it all really

About the same as our possession stats in what is now supposed to be a possession based team

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Bloody awful. C.P. is running out of time. Palace were rubbish, we were worse.

[Beechey]

Just now, yorkie1999 said:

About the same as our possession stats in what is now supposed to be a possession based team

We had 57% possession though. We just had absolutely nothing else whatsoever.

[H.a.r.r.y]

Just now, yorkie1999 said:

About the same as our possession stats in what is now supposed to be a possession based team

we play like a 20th place team

[martyn]

7 - Ghezzal, Fuchs

6 - Ricardo, Morgan, Maguire, Vardy, Schmeichel

5 - Gray, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Maddison

4 - Mendy, N'Didi

[woznotwos]

Not offered much in the last 270 mins plus injury time  i've watched and we weren't that great before either . Miserable.

[kingfox]

7 - Ricardo, Morgan, Maguire, Fuchs

6 - Schmeichel 

5 - Mendy, Vardy

4 - Gray, Maddison, Albrighton, Ghezzal

3 - Iheanacho 

1 - Ndidi

[Guest ttfn]

Schmeichel 7

 

Ricardo 6

Morgan 5

Maguire 5

Fuchs 7

 

Ndidi 3

Mendy 4

 

Albrighton 6

Maddison 4

Gray 4

 

Vardy 5

 

Ghezzal 6, Iheanacho 3.

[Tom12345]

8 hours ago, Beechey said:

We had 57% possession though. We just had absolutely nothing else whatsoever.

I can’t say that is correct. I am equally frustrated, but I thought the second half looked a bit more like our old selves with aggression, directness and quickness. The problem is that we still had Ndidi being a liability while only having Vardy upfront alone for a long time until Nachos came on (and he created the chance that nearly got Vardy scoring). 

 

Puel needs to wake up to the fact that Gray cannot play striker and that Vardy needs support. Ghezzal playing instead of Maddison was a massive improvementand I would instead have Ghezzal play instead of Ndidi. Regardless, he needs to drop Ndidi in any event. He does nothing attacking wise, his volleys are selfish as he has zero chance of getting them on target, his touches are worst than league 2 players, his dribbling is atrocious, his passing is non existent. 

 

Ghezzal looked ok on defense as well - better than Mahrez at least.

 

Yes, that can be dangerous for our defense overall and so I would use Evans instead of MacGuire who does a better job cleaning up defensively with Morgan than MacGuire.

Edited 16 December 2018 by Tom12345

[Deeg67]

That rating is harsh on Ricardo.  He was industrious and effective with little support for the whole game.

 

Hardest part was whether to go lower or Ndidid or Mendy, since both were terrible.  I guess Ndidi was the absolute worst (if I see one more pass bombed backwards from the attacking third I'll bust my monitor) but as much as I believe in Puel's long-term vision, this experiment of the two of them playing together has to end.  They're terrible as a duo.

[Guest]

7 Fuchs

6 Ghezzal Morgan Maguire Schmeichel Ricardo Albrighton

5 Mendy Nacho Vardy

4 Maddison

3 N'didi

 

Get rid of him. 

[MrsJohnMurphy]

Fuchs MOM

 

The defence was generally fine

 

Going forward though 

[Guest MattP]

7 Fuchs, Ghezzal

6 Morgan Maguire Schmeichel

5 Vardy, Ricardo, Albrighton, Gray

4 Maddison, Mendy

3 N'didi