Crystal Palace (A) - Match Thread

[Fox seen in Norwich]

2 minutes ago, kyleolly said:

Have Palace not made any changes then?

Just Eze and Cahill out for riedewald and Tomkins I think

[adejo92]

Just now, Fightforever said:

The meltdown needs to stop. You can't play the same players twice in 48 hours this is the only way.

You can, they are elite athletes. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, StevieLynex said:

I confidently predict we will make three subs in the second half - Vardy, Tielemans and Ndidi

When we go 2 nil down... 

[Sunbury Fox]

Just now, M0901 said:

Two games in 3 days if everyone’s memory is lacking

Well Palace seem less bothered by that. If we get away with playing this team in an away game against an established PL team then fair play, but I'm far from confident.

[Ian Nacho]

Why was anyone surprised? I said it’ll be something like this and I got laughed at. He did the exact same last year against West Ham. 

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

btw if Gray comes on I will have to shower again. I can't take it 

[SheppyFox]

Reserving judgement, still plenty of talent in that 11.

[Leicester_Loyal]

If we're still level by the time we make a couple of subs we could easily win it.

 

I'm only worried about controlling the game from our midfield, not sure we'll do it with 2 DMs.

 

The front 3 should hopefully get some chances against a tired Palace team.

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, Ian Nacho said:

Why was anyone surprised? I said it’ll be something like this and I got laughed at. He did the exact same last year against West Ham. 

The run we went on was pretty horrendous after that match 

[Fightforever]

Just now, adejo92 said:

You can, they are elite athletes. 

Well yeah theoretically but expecting a good performance and no injuries while doing that is idiocy.

[jammie82uk]

10 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Who the **** is leaking this to Sean then?

Teams have to be submitted 90 mins beforehand and then announced 60mins before kick off, the tweet I seen falls in the middle of the two time slots 

[Tuna]

Jason Bourne 🗣🎙📻 on Twitter: "Apparently Maddison managing a knee issue - but expected to be fine for Newcastle. Vardy and Fofana also said to be managing knocks. @talkSPORT" / Twitter

[Countryfox]

Looking forward to seeing Thomas and Barnes linking up together again ...  very slightly telepathic ..   

[Corky]

I doubt Rodgers wants to make a host of changes but he's in a delicate situation where key players have played a lot, others are returning and it's a very short turnaround. 

 

Of course there's a risk in this team- there's also a risk putting out players with niggles which could get worse.

 

I can guarantee he'd want to play a much stronger team.

[lcfcsnow]

Amartey Mendy and Choudhury in the same team 

[st albans fox]

3 minutes ago, kyleolly said:

Have Palace not made any changes then?

Five apparently 

 

2 minutes ago, Lcfc82 said:

Only 3 or 4

 

see above - no idea if the five I read was correct 

 

2 minutes ago, adejo92 said:

I think we have shown Palace some disrespect with that line up and they could well oblige in punishing us.

 

Palace are a much better team than their last 2 results make them look.

 

I'd have like to have seen Maddison & Vardy start with the option to bring them off  when we are ahead.

 

I've been proved wrong far too many times by BR and this squad though so I should probably just show faith and trust.

 

Come on boys.

 

Madders picked up a knee injury and was already carrying a knock. Can’t currently play twice a week

 

 vards the same - we will get a half out of him if we are more than one down at half time ....

[Guest Kopfkino]

Look at Newcastle last year to see what playing the same players in every game over the Christmas period can do and that’s without having all the games we’ve had in a short period this year. Pure cloud cuckoo thinking to have expected anything different to this

Edited 28 December 2020 by Kopfkino

[shailen]

We have the bench to do the business if we need it. Happy if we can get a positive result here with having rested some key players. 

[Ian Nacho]

Choudhury played as a fullback as a kid. 3 at the back?

[l444ry]

Brendan has more confidence in that line up than me. Had the same feeling at West Ham this time last season. Hope to be proved wrong for a second time. 

[Hammo]

Blame this on the Premier League for their stupid fixture scheduling, not Rodgers.

 

This match should have been played on Tuesday or Wednesday.

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

Do you guys think we can kidnap Zaha and leave Gray behind in platform shoes and hope Roy's caterracts mean he won't notice?

[Ian Nacho]

Still confident. 

[NaijaFox]

In Brendan We Trust.

But, while we knew there would be changes, surprised at the extent. Hoping we are treating ALL points as important.

 

Come on yer Beautiful Foxes! 

[filbertway]

Well if people are right about players not being fit enough then we should run over this Palace team with absolutely no problems.