Palace view from last night. They dunt like Lee.......

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So i dragged myself the hour and half train journey to Selhurst for the gloriously overpriced pre season friendly versus recently relegated and chucked together Norwich squad. And here are my thoughts on the game and ratings of the players.

My opinion of the game was that we were outplayed and looked weak in nearly every single area. Yes it was a pre season friendly which generally mean f*** all but the same applies to Norwich. Whilst neither team were brilliant by any means, Norwich looked comfortable on the ball, created the better chances and showed examples of slick passing and in the final third seemed competent. Palace on the other hand looked s*** on the ball with DERRY being f***ing awful and as a leader was just abhorrent. Our main tactic was pass the ball squarely in midfield neglecting our only flair player in midfield in Moses before passing it back to the goalkeeper or centre half who then hoof it to the ineffectual Alan Lee. I did a sad thing (as was my boredom in this drab affair) and actually did my own version of player cam on Alan Lee for five minutes. In the five minutes he only broke into a light trot (with nowhere near the finesse of a horse) once and failed to win any headers at all. In fact he was taken off and replaced by Fonte (a defender) who then nearly destoryed someones face by the looks of it. Our problem seemed to be creativity. Derry is over the hill and never coming back again, Danns looked sharp at times but never really created in last third and Nick Carle (whom seemed to be playing on the right) looked out of place and kept drifting in and leaving us exposed and overlapped on the right.

Anyway, enough of the rant and on to player views.

Speroni- confident from crosses and did what was asked
Clyne- shakey in first few minutes and final ball week but competent enough.
Hill- Did what was required and no more. Came of injured but nothing serious
McCarthy- At fault for goal but looked ok
Fonte- Cameo upfront looked better than Lee. Defensively missed few headers and got turned to easy for my liking
Moses- Very good. Only one to run at defence, pass and move and looked sharp
Derry- AWFUL, WOEFUL, PATHETIC. Lead by example unfortunately
Danns- Looked good at times but lacked final ball
Carle- Tried hard but played out of position
Alan Lee- Norwich got off lightly. Didnt run, try or do anything
Sears- Looked bright especially when linking up with moses and the youngsters. Could save us this year!

Posted By: DrDublin, Jul 29, 20:24:54