Let me get back to you on that.
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@jaffod I feel similarly.
I don’t want to say anything I’ll regret later so I’m just going to keep quiet. Taking all the emotions out of it, West Brom leaves Anfield with a point. Sam is tasked with keeping his club up and mission accomplished today. They got what they came for.
Disappointing, but we as supporters and The Boss and the players have to take this one on the chin. There was nothing “unfair” or scandalous about the match. We didn’t take our chances.
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If we haven’t signed a CB by then we deserve fuck all from this season.
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Completely disagree. You can’t legislate for losing your defensive lynchpin, who had missed one match on three years to a season ended, then losing another one for the season a couple of weeks later.
Besides, I think Fabinho is a better CB than he is a midfielder.
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Yes, because with 3 senior CB’s injured, and also our backup left back missing in action, what we really need to do is to alter the back four even more.
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is anyone else here like me and gets more worried about actually having decent breaks between matches?
as a collective we all shit a brick and postulate about whos had too many minutes and who should play where and when, when we have a the old three games in 8 days routine to deal with…but we generally seem to deliver…
then we’re finally given a break in the hectic schedule and the rythym just seems to be disrupted.
someone mentioned we had a nine day break before the UTD game, which im more nervous about than a three day break to be brutally honest.
dont know if the stats back up my point over an extended period, but the actual performances seem to in my mind.
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Absolutely yes. I mentioned similar last season. We seem less sharp when having proper or longer rest.
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More shots on goal.
Mascot…both Matip and Gomez are injury prone and have been for quite some time now. Fabinho is very good covering the turf but in the air, he’s very average. Then there is the added effect that he isn’t shielding the backline,
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Matip very injury prone. Gomez less so, and more unlucky that he’s had a couple of bad ones.
But let’s not forget that the first one to go down was the lad who has been ever present since he arrived.
Disagree on Fabinho.
I don’t think Gomez is injury prone… just that the injuries he has had have been very bad ones to keep him out a long time.
I class injury prone as regular injuries, making them unavailable, like Matip and Keita, for example.
Arguably semantics, but I don’t class Gomez as injury prone.
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My God the crying on here is unbelievable. We are nailed on to win this League. Everyone else is dropping points and who else has a better squad or manager?
Also not sure why we are surprised that a team lead by the two Sams would be hard to break down. They have form at Anfield…
Have faith. No-one will finish above us.
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Started off the day with a bloody headache. This is definitely not helping. I am so frustrated with the outcome. Too bad that the Boss also lost some of his cool too to pick up a yellow.
A stupid and immature decision, running backwards toward the own box and into trouble by Curtis Jones, which became very costly in dropping points to the horrible WBA with their shite football. It was a sub that was just 1 minute too late, unfortunately.
A wasteful first 30 minutes by our boys, the lack of clinical touches and final ball, very much unlike the last Palace match, which gave the toothless WBA some confidence that they could get something out of the match. Unfortunately, that’s what WBA did. In the late 1st half, and pretty much the whole of 2nd half, WBA, with their lack of talent, decided to come out and play. Somehow, gave us all kind of problems. Ali saving our bacon early on, and yet we still did not heed the warning.
Also frustrating was that some of our counter attacks were significantly slowed down by poor touches or holding onto the ball for a tad too long: Mo, Sadio, Curtis. Against a team that parked the bus(es), these kind of tardiness were costly in the end.
These 2 points dropped felt like a lost. It is so hard to find positive out of the match in such a horrible feeling. Worse is also the lost of Joel Matip with a groin injury. Sigh.
I have rambled on enough. Going to pick the 3 players which stood out:
- Robbo. Very good with his crosses.
- Ali. Saved us from embarrassment when WBA forward ran past Rhys with a massive save. But unfortunately, unable to keep the clean sheet (should that goal counted? I thought there was a bit of an offside).
- Sadio. Well taken goal. What a beauty. Almost got another one with a diving header.
Big shout out to Hendo. I could still hear him shouting at Sadio to stay onside during an attacking phase of the match.
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This reminds me of an exchange that I heard in a bar in Savannah last year (come to think of it it was the day we beat Spurs at Anfield in October). Met this hillbilly (an actual hillbilly, not just a “redneck”) who said “I told [random girl in the bar] she could come over to my place, but that my wife said it’d get a little crowded.” 
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I agree with Mascot on Fabinho being a better at centre half but I disagree that we didn’t need another centre half in the Summer. IMO we should have been looking at a long term partner for VVD letting Gomez and the new guy fight it out to partner the big man. The freak injury to Virgil cannot be planned for but I’d doubt many would have been surprised by Gomez’s injury.
Including Matip in the “numbers” is foolish because he’s never fit for any sustained period. Joel should be cover for 3 centre backs in front of him in the pecking order and if anything I’d move him on this summer and let Keita hop on the same bus.
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I think Jones has played well for us this season, but he made two critical mistakes that probably cost us points. First, a few minutes before their goal, we were breaking from a corner, with half a dozen red shirts ahead of him. But he was too slow of thought, and did not pass the ball fast enough to a surging player ahead of him, allowing West Brom players to get back and blunt the counter attack. The second was when he had the ball on the right touchline and decided to move back to our goal rather than play it to an open man. They converged on him, which led to him giving away the corner off which they scored.
As much as I loathe the anti-football of BigAss Sam, we didn’t create enough. So we were setting us up for that result.
And I absolutely hated the way the commentators on NBCSN fawned all over him afterwards. He parked the bus, and it worked. He’s a one-trick pony. I’m sorry, I don’t believe what he does is hard to do. Coaching six players to stand on the back line seven yards apart behind a bank of four midfielders is not tactical genius. It’s f****** boring football. I hope they get relegated and that dinosaur is consigned to the dustbin of football history forever.
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You are still on this fairytale…
Second half needed a ball carrier .
Naby should have come on for Curtis
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I doubt they will get relegated. If I owned a club that was looking like it might be heading to the Championship, realistically I would be on the phone to Allerdyce and Lee. They would be first choice to keep us up.
He’s a competent CB and a good short term fix.
But he’s a world class DM
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