Saint_clark

Exactly. Is he going to bang in a load of goals, is he even going to reach double figures? No almost certainly not. Do we look a more cohesive, effective unit going forward with him holding the ball up? 100%. If we get Armstrong out and Archer or even Sulemana in alongside Dibling to drive forward instead of drift about uselessly, then we'll see more of the benefits. We saw it work for Palace with Mateta holding and Eze and Sarr running behind him.

Spread out over 3 separate seasons and 5 separate managers with no consistent run of games in that time, so impossible to properly judge him by.

Mateta was woeful when he first came to England.

Excitement amongst some is palpable to get in here and criticise. He linked up well in the first half, was shattered in the second. Mateta up front for Palace shows the benefits of having a player up front who may not get a lot of goals but can hold it up and link up well, which Onuachu does. He'll score goals if we continue to give him time, not a huge amount but some.

Fucking bunch of useless wanker bastard fucks all round.

All Lallana has done since coming on is give it away.

The fuck was that foul for then ref, couldn't have been a push.

Lallanas been fucking wank, breaking down every time it gets to him in decent positions.

How the fuck has he given a goal kick!?!?

I like how vocal Fernandes is even being a younger/new player. Directing players a lot.

Bednarek has been a shambles today, 9-0 levels of bad. ABK needs to start next game.

Bednarek gets elbowed in the stomach, so why is he getting a talking to alongside Mateta?

Eze goes down like a sack of shit. THB an idiot for giving him the option.

The fuck is Dowie talking about...proper rambling.

You haven't seen Mateta play much then. He looked very much like Onuachu when he first signed.

Why are we not putting someone on the keeper from our corners, ref has set the precedent now.

Amazing run and shot from Fernandes.

If not, he needs one.

Guarantee we'll never see a replay of it.

That looked like a foul on Bednarek FFS. Should be a penalty.

A nothing foul there from Fernandes, but the Palace players surround the referee and intimidate him into giving a yellow. We're too nice, should have surrounded the ref several times today.

Not in the slightest. This game isn't over yet. We've still improved massively under him.

Because we've been practicing the lay off to the fullback in those situations for a year and a half.

Big Les closest, turns his back on the shot.

Fuck sake. Ramsdale poor there, come and claim it.