Crystal Palace vs WHUFC -- December 26th, 2019

Zabaleta beats a Palace attacker to the ball and puts it out for a throw...

Ayew gets an elbow in the face from Ogbonna

wow... roberto makes a save form Ayew...

he doesn't hold onto it and we'll see how he does from the corner...


noble's black armband has come loose... not the best way to remember Martin Peters, but it about sums us up.

Roberto punches the corner clear... (has he been banned from actually holding the ball?)

we attack, Palace attack.. Palace get a corner off Zabaleta

in a stunning development, autocorrect offered 'Zabaleta' as the choice when I typed 'Zab' just now...

I missed what caused it but Noble is having a right old go at Ogbonna... has to be dragged away by Cresswell AND Antonio... the bloke really is al ability.

anyone trying to defend him as Mr West Ham needs their heads examined.


and just to put the boot into the Twitterati... Snoddy has just curled a beautiful ball into the far corner of the goal and we have the lead.

and to stick the boot into the Twitterati... Lanzini comes on to replace Fornals.

the Guardian says:

"GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham (Snodgrass, 57)

From fighting to celebrations in the West Ham ranks. Antonio does well on the wing, sends a cross into the box where Snodgrass sweeps it into the net."


the BBC simply puts it "against the run of play"

Palace lose another player to injury...

antonio powers into the box but can only get a deflected shot out for a corner...

now we're finally putting in a tiny bit of a shift... after 64 minutes...

Palace corner... Roberto punches.

we enter the second half of the second half and Kouyate slots the ball past Roberto...

that's his first Palace goal in two years... well natch!!!

with Villa taking the lead our 'cushion' from Prexit is down to 2 points...and there we were, flirting with jumping up the table to 13th!!!!

Anderson comes on to save the day...

replaces Haller...

so... that old 'linking up with the forwards' thing presumably isn't going to happen and we'll drop to a 4-5-1 formation and give up on the trying to win the game notion.

wow... Connor wickham just on as a sub... gets through one on one with Roberto...

and...

and...

and...

and...

roberto saves.

he does...

he saves it...

Palace piling on all the pressure they can muster...

ten minutes to go...

Ogbonna gets clattered... receiving treatment

almost three minutes of watching Ogbonna get 'better'... game resumes...

Palace on the march

Snoddy almost doubles his tally but is blocked by the defender as he winds up to shoot form inside the 6 yard box...

3 minutes play Ogbonna time to get something...

and there you have it... making something out of nothing... against the run of play...

jordan Ayew... probably the worst striker on the pitch... dances through the defense... jinks the ball over the diving Roberto...

how many points have we given away from winning positions this season?

now we just have to suffer added time as the embarrassment sets in...



Snoddy is pulled off... Ajeti comes on.

15 points dropped from wining positions... that's how many...

ultimately it's exactly what we deserve from the game... we've been as poor as ever... a few moments of average football to try to pair over the gaping cracks in the team... but the truth will out.

5 minutes of added time to suffer through .

Zaha beats Zabaleta on the sprint back to the box... but Zabaleta beats Zaha in the tackle to clear the danger...

Palace are getting the 'oles' as they play the ball around... we're being run ragged at the moment...

and there it is... Palace do the double over us...


what more is there to say?

we're 1 point from the Prexit spots... and with a worse goal difference than Villa.

admittedly we have a game in hand... but the way we play it doesn't even matter that the game in hand is with Liverpool... we'd lose against no one...

I personally thought we got what we deserved in yesterday`s game - We took the lead against the run of play with a well took goal from Snodgrass but we never looked like holding on to it as Palace continue to pile the pressure on us.

It`s a massive gamble but for the Leicester game I`d like us to start Johnson at Right Back and Holland in Midfield on the Left side....I`d also drop Ogbonna and bring in Diop.

Arran wrote:I personally thought we got what we deserved in yesterday`s game - We took the lead against the run of play with a well took goal from Snodgrass but we never looked like holding on to it as Palace continue to pile the pressure on us.

It`s a massive gamble but for the Leicester game I`d like us to start Johnson at Right Back and Holland in Midfield on the Left side....I`d also drop Ogbonna and bring in Diop.

I agree we totally got what we deserved...

who would you drop from midfield to accommodate Holland?

Arran wrote:
It`s a massive gamble but for the Leicester game I`d like us to start Johnson at Right Back and Holland in Midfield on the Left side....I`d also drop Ogbonna and bring in Diop.

Johnson is injured

I'd drop Noble & play Coventry