Palace v Saints - Match and Reaction

[Jonnyboy]

Oh it's on BT Sport lol

[Manuel]

Prowse vs Zaha round 2

[Behind Enemy Lines]

37 seconds 😂

[OttawaSaint]

Kit looks really nice!

[Wsaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:03, Behind Enemy Lines said:

37 seconds 😂

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Came to say this, unbelievable 😂

[OttawaSaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:00, Manuel said:

Prowse vs Zaha round 2

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Might even be round 3. Didn’t Zaha get away with poking him in the eye last season?

[OttawaSaint]

Unlucky. Stephens couldn’t get enough power on JWP corner. 

[OttawaSaint]

Bright start, Ings and Adams linked up well. 

[skintsaint]

good start, stephens gives needless corner tho

[OttawaSaint]

Looking at the replay and Ings must be disappointed he didn’t control it better and score. 

[OttawaSaint]

Hope Jack is ok. I don’t really want to see Vestergaard today (or any day).

[skintsaint]

our own doing...again

[obelisk]

That was caused by fannying around in the middle of the pitch. Stoopid.

[striker]

Wow. We look very active and control the match, and then we give up an easy goal like that

[Saint_clark]

Poor pass from Romeu and Redmond weak in letting them get there first. 

[OttawaSaint]

Balls.

[HarvSFC]

Football is back!

[Archers Road Stand]

Knew he would score after all the slack our fans gave him on here and Twitter. Woeful from Romeu. 

[trousers]

Does Romeu look a bit chunkier than normal...?

[skintsaint]

Palace playing like the away team, we can't break teams down like this. We won't score.

[St.JonB]

Not sure where are full backs were? 

[DG]

Dominate and concede, good to see there are somethings which aren’t changing in this crazy year.

[danjosaint]

And the fact we bought a defensively poor rb

[cloggy saint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:17, skintsaint said:

Palace playing like the away team, we can't break teams down like this. We won't score.

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We won't score ? Are you sure about that?

[skintsaint]

Walker Peters wants to start keeping an eye on Zaha. Might help us a bit.

[Archers Road Stand]

We are wide open. 

[BotleySaint]

Pretty football but we are playing a dangerous game. Too high up the pitch. 

[OttawaSaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:17, danjosaint said:

And the fact we bought a defensively poor rb

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Calm down! 18 minutes into a new season FFS!

[madge]

Smallbone as last season anonymous 

[Saint_clark]

Smallbone fucking useless. 

[OttawaSaint]

All setting up nicely for the Ralph hairdryer treatment at HT and a great cone from behind win!

[skintsaint]

24 mins in against a injury hit defence...not one shot in anger...great stuff so far.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:24, Saint_clark said:

Smallbone fucking useless. 

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Shows how thin we are in replacements when Armstrong out. Boufal isn’t reliable, Djenepo always injured, Smallbone lightweight.

[qwertyell]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:20, Archers Road Stand said:

We are wide open. 

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Two slow centre backs and a number six with the mobility of an asthmatic pensioner is not a combination that lends itself to a high line, you would think.

Not a tactical masterclass so far. Palace have seen us coming.

[striker]

All these new numbers keep throwing me off

[trousers]

Good to see Saintsweb getting off to a positive start as ever...  Relagated by Christmas I reckon...

[OttawaSaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:31, trousers said:

Good to see Saintsweb getting off to a positive start as ever...  Relagated by Christmas I reckon...

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Even without the usual suspects there are plenty of doom and gloom merchants left.

[Useful Idiot]

It's never fun watching Saints try to break down a packed defence. If a team gets the chance to sit back and break against us they normally do well.

[Jonnyboy]

Is it just me or is the forum really slow and crashy these days? 

[Jonnyboy]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:31, trousers said:

Good to see Saintsweb getting off to a positive start as ever...  Relagated by Christmas I reckon...

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Typical first match of the season for us so far. 

[danjosaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:21, OttawaSaint said:

Calm down! 18 minutes into a new season FFS!

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So u didn't see him last season?  Brightened up our attacking play but defensively we could have done better

[trousers]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:33, OttawaSaint said:

Even without the usual suspects there are plenty of doom and gloom merchants left.

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I am anticipating a poor performance flushing out one or two long lost doom and gloom merchants...

[Saint_clark]

Smallbone is possibly the most ineffective player ever to put on a Saints shirt. He just doesn't get involved.

[jamesfp1]

We seem improve in the second half of away games. Hopefully that's the case today. Jeez. 

[BotleySaint]

Need to change something. They are just waiting for the mistake and then they'll outnumber and outpace us in attack.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 12/09/2020 at 14:35, danjosaint said:

So u didn't see him last season?  Brightened up our attacking play but defensively we could have done better

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If he was great at both defending and attacking he wouldn’t be a Saints player. Spurs would have kept him or he’d be out of our price range. We aren’t big spenders so that means unless we take a huge risk like with Ings, all of our players will have areas of their game that aren’t that great. 

Not sure what people expect us to do, bring in a couple of $50M players?

Edited 12 September, 2020 by OttawaSaint

[obelisk]

Saints not looking much of a threat at all. Need to move the ball with a bit more urgency & accuracy. Palace looking more likely at the moment.

[skintsaint]

Palace looking like they have had 3 more preseason games than us at the moment. We are so slow and sluggish.

[Colinjb]

Palace are playing this like it's away. On the break, catching us out. Sitting deep to ensure Ings/Adams cannot move freely.

Roy has set them up perfectly to counter us.

[badgerx16]

We look like we didn't have enough of a pre-season.