23 Apr 2017 19:34:37
How we lost that game i don't know.
Under no pressure at all from Palace.
It just beggars belief.
Two Lovren mistakes (doing his best impression of Klavan) and we get punished for both mistakes.
Just imagine if we had a half decent defence!
We'd have walked the Premier League this season!


1.) 23 Apr 2017
23 Apr 2017 19:46:09
Not just defence though. The attack was pretty toothless when it came to final ball and getting into positions to exploit and midfield gave the ball away a lot. Overall it was a poor performance. That could and should have been 2-2 at worst and really 3-2 or 4-2 was viable. Plenty if possession just inability to get the final ball in when Palace were playing more openly and inability to break them down when they were more defensive. Even with 7 mins extra it never seemed like a shot on target was coming never mind a goal.


2.) 23 Apr 2017
23 Apr 2017 21:35:30
Erm can was at fault on one of them.

Shouls of stayed with benteke on corner.


3.) 23 Apr 2017
23 Apr 2017 21:52:31
That was my BIGGEST frustration. CP were of NO danger to us BUT yet aging, no desire, guile and poor-decision making in the final third, killed us again. One shot on target in a must win game at home, is pathetic and a joke. We just screwed ourselves out of 3 points today and we have no one else to blame but ourselves. However, NOTHING will be decided until the end of the season and top 4 is going to go down to the last game. What I hope for is that we are in control of our own destiny by the time that day comes.


4.) 24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 01:14:31
Zonal marking if your nannmoves to another players zone he takes him so lovren was at fault. True can shouldve done more but once benteke moved lovren should take benteke lovren looked at him then ball watched under 12s mistakes!


5.) 24 Apr 2017
24 Apr 2017 06:53:59
It seemed to be more than just a zonal marking problem. No common sense and no communication. The first line which would have had the 6 yard bix all dropped deep when their widest man dropped deep. That may be the idea to keep a line, if so it isn't a great one. As soon as that happened that goal became possible. Can saw Bentwke's run and clearly thought about acting then stopped. The problem is clearly Lovren didn't realise the run hapoened so he didn't adjust and Can didn't see that just staying in his zone was wrong so he didn't adjust. Zonal marking isn't about just stand in the same place and thinking players, the type the team doesn't have, wouldn't have all dropped deeper like sheep and wouldn't have decided that's not my zone so not my job. That emphasised all the problems in one move, lack of thought and lack of leadership and strength to step out of line and say I need to do something different here.