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Academy Coach | UEFA B Qualified Coach & 24/25 AYA Candidate | CPFC ⚽️ & 49ers 🏈
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It’s the start of March. We’re safe from any relegation threat & aiming for a top half finish to end the season. In the QF of the FA Cup with a realistic chance of getting to Wembley. And we have the best manager in my life time as a Palace fan. These are enjoyable times. All hail Oliver Glasner.

That’s not a bad draw at all. Best possible one away from home IMO. That away end will be bouncing

Matheus Franca, dare I say it, looks like he’s ready to start having an impact in the coming weeks & months. Looks a lot more robust physically. And it’s clearly obvious he’s talented.

Think this is right. For me it was dangerous & reckless but not intentional.

A win is a win. Second half was awful. Main concern is with JP. That was a disgusting challenge. It was assault. Praying he’s ok 🙏

To the Coliseum for a battle with an old foe….into them Palace! Please make them suffer 💪 🦅 ❤️💙

50 hours till kick off and Palace have yet to send out tickets for the game on Saturday…

When you look at some of the home games we’ve literally thrown away so far this season (and especially of late) and then look at the table; just two additional home wins and we’d be right in the mix for CHAMPIONS LEAGUE qualification.

Can anyone confirm if Will Hughes two game suspension is for the next two PL games or comes into effect Saturday?

Superb performance tonight. Wharton makes a huge difference for us at home. He can play those quick, forward passes that open opposition defences up. Roll on Saturday! UTP ❤️💙

Well that was marvellous. Have we started our annual spring run early? 👀

Be interesting to see what Glasner does tomorrow; given our season will be defined by the outcome on Saturday, I’d look at giving a breather to Mateta, Eze, Hughes, Mitchell & Guehi. Give the likes of Nketiah, Esse, Wharton, Chilwell & Clyne some minutes from the start.

That was fantastic. Cracking away day. Nice to finally see a proper win this season in person (I missed Spurs so my sole victory up till today was the home win against a pathetic Southampton side). Just get past Millwall, then a QF away…hand us the trophy now 😬. Away from Selhurst we are VERY good.

We were VERY good today. Defensively superb & carried a constant threat going forward. It’s a shame we have to play 19 of these games at home…

Fulham away. UTP! ❤️💙

Quickly becoming know across the world of football as a “oh f*ck we are absolutely screwed” moment. Michael Olise’s delivery from these positions is up there with the very best. Near impossible to defend.

Michael Olise starting on the right against Jeffrey Schlupp starting left back 😬

Seen some criticism of Everton’s new stadium oddly enough from Palace fans of all people over on the other place…they clearly haven’t been to our absolute dump of a stadium for a while! Give me Everton’s new one over Selhurst every day of the week.

On our poor home form, I do wonder if Glasner would consider tweaking the shape for home games. Get an extra attacker (Esse) in the side & sacrifice Richards. We too easy to play against at home. Simply don’t carry enough threat in final third.

We really are poor at home. No excuses. Love Glasner but even his system can’t open teams that play a low block up. Need special players that can carry the ball & eliminate opponents. We only had one of them on the pitch today (Eze).

Our home form is diabolical.

Yeah he starting.

We could really do with City somehow turning this around and going deep in CL…otherwise their sole focus trophy wise will be the FA Cup 🥴

Crazy how quickly things can change. Attacking options off the bench on Saturday should be the strongest we’ve had in quite some time. Looking forward to it!

If we suffer any type of injury to Lacroix or Guehi then we only have ourselves to blame. Went into this window with 5 PL starting calibre centre backs. We now have only three plus Clyne. Once more proving to be negligent in a transfer window. Again.

Nice to meet the gaffer up at St George’s Park this afternoon whilst on my Advanced Youth Award!

Wonderful win. We’d be challenging for Europe if we played away from home every week.

After hearing Carls insight on the Diouf deal, I can understand why the club have decided against doing it. Makes sense to pursue a short term solution now to then re-visit longer term solutions in the summer.