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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: scawsby steve on February 10, 2025, 09:47:50 pm
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The lads gave it all tonight, and were just short of a bit of quality against one of the form teams of the Premier League.
Absolute contrast to when we played Palace last time, and went out with a whimper.
Great effort.
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Yep, couldn’t agree more
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Well done to ref. I thought he was fair and consistent . No cards for either side .
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Spot on.great work rate.proud of the lads.
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Agreed chased every ball, showed class, impressed by sterrys passing tonight, Luke’s dedication to pressure players, proud of the lads, heads held high, onto promotion now !
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Well done to ref. I thought he was fair and consistent . No cards for either side .
I thought he fell for the foul prior to their first goal.
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Apart from the Ennis shocking foul, by their eventual first goal scorer ( you could make a case for high studs, no control and very late - ie red card) it was (although not given a yellow all day)
I do think he referred the game well.
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Olowu was the best player on the pitch.
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Apart from the Ennis shocking foul, by their eventual first goal scorer ( you could make a case for high studs, no control and very late - ie red card) it was (although not given a yellow all day)
I do think he referred the game well.
On another day Billy might well have had a yellow later, but the Ref couldn't really give it after not giving a yellow to the Palace player
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Olowu was the best player on the pitch.
For us yes, Hughes was the best on the pitch
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Excellent performance, Palace had to earn that, we battled for every ball, and never stopped, disappointing to see the part timers mass exodus on 85 mins after a performance like that
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Hughes was unreal.
Anderson rarely lets us down despite the stick he gets.
Maxwell looked in a bad way at FT.
Fans a joke leaving on 80min.
Molyneux brilliant.
Enjoyable game, we deserved a goal there.
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Massive well done to every player, gave their all. Very proud of our club tonight.
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Good effort. Need to take that into the league now
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Agree Filo, Hughes is a class player, a proper midfielder.
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Another positive, again thought the subs added something towards the end especially Ironside and Senior
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Olowu was the best player on the pitch.
For us yes, Hughes was the best on the pitch
Definitely, Olowu had a brilliant game but Hughes was in a class on his own, what a footballer!
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Thought we played quite well, only grumble we didn't quite make the most of the half chances we had. The first goal quite unlucky and the second at the wrong time when we were making a game of it.
But, a decent performance, now to focus on getting out of the shite league we find ourselves in.
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A big thumbs up to Jamie Sterry, he’s gonna have 1 hell oof a headache in the morning with that egg above his eye, didn’t shirk a header when needed.
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Olowu showed he has the class to contain Premier League strikers all match long. We will be lucky to retain him.
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Gutted at switching off for the first goal, real sloppy one. Apart from that we did a lot well. Deserve plenty of credit for that performance.
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Excellent performance, Palace had to earn that, we battled for every ball, and never stopped, disappointing to see the part timers mass exodus on 85 mins after a performance like that
Be interesting to see how many home fans we have on Saturday! Should be at least 8000 home fans after that performance but I doubt it will be.
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A big thumbs up to Jamie Sterry, he’s gonna have 1 hell oof a headache in the morning with that egg above his eye, didn’t shirk a header when needed.
His face was a picture, he could be in for a Sterry Sterry night :chair:
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Sterry for me was a star. The link up play and that lovely through ball brilliant.
But how did he get the egg?
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Gutted at switching off for the first goal, real sloppy one. Apart from that we did a lot well. Deserve plenty of credit for that performance.
Not sure it was a case of switching off, just unlucky that when it bounced back of the post it hit Billy and deflected the ball straight to their player 3 yards out!
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A big thumbs up to Jamie Sterry, he’s gonna have 1 hell oof a headache in the morning with that egg above his eye, didn’t shirk a header when needed.
His face was a picture, he could be in for a Sterry Sterry night :chair:
As long as he doesn't cut his ear off.
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First half Rovers were excellent. In terms of tactics, organization and work rate.
Completely nullified Palace's attacking threat and didn't look like conceding in open play. Had a few half chances going forward too.
So frustrating and undeserved to be 0-1 down at half time to a goal from a set piece.
Couldn't understand therefore the change in formation at HT. Suddenly we looked wide open and Palace should have scored twice in the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half.
Despite Rovers having an attacking spell the 2nd goal was inevitable and Palace were comfortable and unadventurous after that. A few more half chances for Rovers. Shame one of them wasn't taken.
Scoreline was a fair reflection on the game. Rovers gave a really good account of themselves against a pretty much full strength top flight team.
Well done. Now let's smash Grimsby on Saturday.
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I think the lads can hold their heads high, playing against a premiership team can always be a lottery for us but the whole group were up for it and gave it a good go, difference to me was they made something from their chances where we just fell short.
Difficult to pick a player out of that but i thought the defence stood up well, Anderson let nobody down and Joe continued in his good form, Sterry was very good down the left and for me Mols had his best game in quite some time.
I would have liked to have seen Ironside start and do a 45 min spell if that's all GM wanted from him, he gave some top level defenders something to think about and changed our attacking imputes dramatically, Sharp could have come on for the last 45 and been more effective.
Good experience for the lads and a very creditable effort, we now need to knuckle down and solidify our promotion push.
If some of the extra fans want to come back next Sat against Grimsby they are more than welcome. Nice to see the home ends full.
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Proud of them all tonight, they never gave up. It was always going to be tough, but they made a game of it.
Back to the bread and butter on Saturday in our quest for promotion and they can gain more confidence after tonight
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Excellent performance, Palace had to earn that, we battled for every ball, and never stopped, disappointing to see the part timers mass exodus on 85 mins after a performance like that
Be interesting to see how many home fans we have on Saturday! Should be at least 8000 home fans after that performance but I doubt it will be.
Will be pleasantly surprised if there’s 7,000 home fans, a lot of people there today who you never see! Deserves to be more on that showing!
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If we play with that energy and commitment for the rest of the season it will end a very happy one.
Also can we please start a petition to put to Radio Sheffield to stop selecting Mickey Walker for Rovers commentary. Completely ruined the drive home listening to him talk absolute waffle!
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Agreed on Mickey Walker, must be someone else waiting in the wings to take over. It's all nonsense, as much as I love the guy.
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Well done to ref. I thought he was fair and consistent . No cards for either side .
Well if you saw the still of the first Palace goalscorers boot up and studs on a shin with the lino looking right at it their bloke should have been off
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First half Rovers were excellent. In terms of tactics, organization and work rate.
Completely nullified Palace's attacking threat and didn't look like conceding in open play. Had a few half chances going forward too.
So frustrating and undeserved to be 0-1 down at half time to a goal from a set piece.
Couldn't understand therefore the change in formation at HT. Suddenly we looked wide open and Palace should have scored twice in the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half.
Despite Rovers having an attacking spell the 2nd goal was inevitable and Palace were comfortable and unadventurous after that. A few more half chances for Rovers. Shame one of them wasn't taken.
Scoreline was a fair reflection on the game. Rovers gave a really good account of themselves against a pretty much full strength top flight team.
Well done. Now let's smash Grimsby on Saturday.
Didn't have enough to win the tie but 0 -1 or 1- 2 would have ben a fairer result.
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Anyone seen a decent replay of the second goal? Thought it looked offside at the time.
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All put a great shift in tonight but Anderson and olowu were great at the back for most parts and moly always looked a threat
Thought atmosphere was pretty poor though
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Anyone seen a decent replay of the second goal? Thought it looked offside at the time.
I thought offside at first but watched the replay & it was deffo on side!
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Consider that was a great performance by everyone, the only problem was that we couldn’t finish one of the many chances that the lads created.
Every single player gave their all and if we continue playing like that for the rest of the season we will end up champions.
Difficult to single out any player, but really pleased to see that Maxwell appeared to be at his best.
Joe O was just excellent, this could be really difficult because any championship clubs viewing that performance against very good premier striker, will surely consider taking a punt on Joe.
Well done guys, play at home like that for remaining games and it must surely put bums on seats.
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Anyone seen a decent replay of the second goal? Thought it looked offside at the time.
2 yard onside same as the 1st goal
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Anyone seen a decent replay of the second goal? Thought it looked offside at the time.
Every time I watch it back, I struggle to understand why Broadbent doesn’t head it!
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I thought the ref and linesman on the west were terrible.
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We are so much better when Ironside is up top.
He has to start on Saturday.
Good performance from our boys tonight, they can hold their heads high.
The first goal came from a free kick which shouldn’t have been awarded.
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Hughes best player on the park - very closely followed by Molly tonight who made things happen out of thin air, could have had 2 - proved me and others wrong and so pleased for him tonight above all the other heroes in Red.
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Felt really flat tonight, zero atmosphere from the black bank. Very strange.
Team did well, shout out to anderson who stepped up and did a decent job.
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Decent performance. We gave Hughes far too much room and made him look world class. I thought our passing was off too at key times. Joe should have started. He made the difference when he came on. Molyneux played well but faded towards the end. Overall, reasonable. We continue to wait for a giant killing at the Eco.
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Good performance everyone can hold their heads up high after that. Just wouldn’t fall for us. Only player I thought struggled with the game was Ennis. He never got ahold of the ball and it was turned over everyone he had it. Thought Gibson, Broadbent and Senior played well to say how little they’ve played recently.
We really do have a top squad for L2 so now let’s get the job done.
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Anyone seen a decent replay of the second goal? Thought it looked offside at the time.
Every time I watch it back, I struggle to understand why Broadbent doesn’t head it!
It was difficult for him, he was running backwards and had his body a little twisted, not going to slate him for that, he had a solid game in my opinion
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Well done to ref. I thought he was fair and consistent . No cards for either side .
He missed that awful challenge on Ennis by Munoz. Watching it back, it’s a red. Over the ball and studs into his ankle. Nasty and could have been a serious injury. Then Munoz scores.
I thought the ref protected Palace. Gave some ridiculously soft free kicks, including the one for their first goal. There was one from a corner where he gave a foul on the keeper and our player was nowhere near him. There was another near the end where Esse went down clutching his face and the replay showed our lad had an arm across his shoulder.
Annoying. He was from Surrey too - hardly neutral in terms of location!
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I do wish we’d been a bit more physical. Gave them far too much respect. Hit the buggers!!
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Hughes was unreal.
Anderson rarely lets us down despite the stick he gets.
Maxwell looked in a bad way at FT.
Fans a joke leaving on 80min.
Molyneux brilliant.
Enjoyable game, we deserved a goal there.
Couldn’t understand all the tourists leaving when they did
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Olowu was the best player on the pitch.
For us yes, Hughes was the best on the pitch
Put Hughes in our side tonight and I think we'd have won that. He was absolutely superb.
Proud of that performance though. And if the Man from Mars had turned up and been told there was an England first choice centre half on the pitch, he'd have assumed it was Olowu. Brilliant performance, but I think that's blown any last chance of him still being here next season.
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Hughes best player on the park - very closely followed by Molly tonight who made things happen out of thin air, could have had 2 - proved me and others wrong and so pleased for him tonight above all the other heroes in Red.
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Chilwell knew he'd been in a game tonight. He hugged Molyneux at full time. Only time he got close to him all night.
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Hughes was unreal.
Anderson rarely lets us down despite the stick he gets.
Maxwell looked in a bad way at FT.
Fans a joke leaving on 80min.
Molyneux brilliant.
Enjoyable game, we deserved a goal there.
Couldn’t understand all the tourists leaving when they did
It wasn't just the tourists. Pretty much all STs where I sit and all the same ones were up and off between 80-85 mins.
Winds me up every game.
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Hughes was unreal.
Anderson rarely lets us down despite the stick he gets.
Maxwell looked in a bad way at FT.
Fans a joke leaving on 80min.
Molyneux brilliant.
Enjoyable game, we deserved a goal there.
Couldn’t understand all the tourists leaving when they did
It wasn't just the tourists. Pretty much all STs where I sit and all the same ones were up and off between 80-85 mins.
Winds me up every game.
Yea like how everyone just assumes it was "tourists/plastics" leaving.
It was no different to a league game when we are losing. Will be the same people that do it week in week out.
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The lads certainly didn’t let themselves or the fans down tonight. A great effort, just wish we could have got a goal to get the atmosphere going.
On to Grimsby, let’s keep the levels high and get back to winning ways.
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Quite happy with that overall, just a pity we couldn't score from one of those chances.
Now we've had our 'jolly' we need to take that concentration and intensity into the league. Olowu summed it up I'm his post match interview, saying we have 16 Cup finals left to play.
If we needed any reminder of the financial gulf between the two clubs, two team coaches wasn't good enough for Palace, with a dozen limos lined up outside to take their players home to London. Unbelievable Jeff!
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It was very quiet most of the game in the south stand.
Very odd when considering how packed it was.
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This was a totally unexpected contrast with the performance at Chesterfield. Palace had to battle hard for their win with goals from shots, one that bounced fortuitously and the other where the touch could quite easily have gone over the bar.
We allowed them possession, but we restricted their options and we moved with speed when opportunities were presented. Their reactions were quicker and their ball control sharper, but we matched their energy and from time to time were dangerously close to converting our scoring opportunities.
The young loanees who you might have expected to shine tended to be overeager and clumsy whereas practically all the others strived to maintain focus, contain the threat and work hard in counter attack. I was amazed how good Molyneux looked against their defenders, and Maxwell showed the sort of class we saw last season, but the whole team seemed inspired to give of their best. I agree that Ironside would have probably been a better fit up front from the start.
Speed of reaction was perhaps the main difference, both in physical control and thinking, but it augurs well for the task ahead.
Restricting a PL team that are unbeaten away in their last eight to 2 goals, both of which were hard-earned, is a great achievement.
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I thought that Olowu and Anderson had good games. Also though Bailey was excellent and Molly was a threat. Billy huffed and puffed, but didn't get much change. On another day we might have got a run of the ball and could have scored - which would have put them under a bit of pressure, but they ended up comfortably winning. Great effort all round though...
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The big difference was Hughes ability to link the play, pass through the lines, and bring momentum into the final third.
Rovers put in a big effort, but lacked the quality in midfield to deliver decent service to the front.
Olowu was outstanding, and Senior did well off the bench.
Not sure that this was a game for Ennis, who looked lost first half.
Some poor delivery from dead balls from Rovers, without enough variation.
All in all, a good solid session, but I never thought that a win was likely!
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Look at the report on the bbc website, especially the possession (40/60) shots, touches in the box etc. we certainly have them a game, rather than 90 mins of attack vs defence which it easily could have been.
Would have been great to score at least once, but otherwise an excellent performance.
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Hughes best player on the park - very closely followed by Molly tonight who made things happen out of thin air, could have had 2 - proved me and others wrong and so pleased for him tonight above all the other heroes in Red.
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Chilwell knew he'd been in a game tonight. He hugged Molyneux at full time. Only time he got close to him all night.
Chilwell didn’t come on until the second half. Think the hug was because he knew Moly had their defenders second guessing all game. They tripled up on him second half every time he got the ball. They’d also played against one another when Mols was at Hartlepool.
As our kid said, if Mols is not Championship standard he’ll eat his hat. Our kids not Mols.
Disappointed with the way Billy took the two opportunities he had on goal. The one second half where he found himself with just the keeper to beat & no defenders around him he hit first time tamely into the keepers hands when he had time to steady himself or even take another touch. Sadly I think he’s become a luxury we can ill afford to keep next season.
A Rovers goal would not only have been great to celebrate it would have been deserved.
I was looking forward to seeing Palace play but felt driving home that they epitomised Premiership players (apart from Hughes’s who has the engine of a Rolls Royce). Their number 5 who did seven rolls on the ground when tackled by Bailey (?) then got up & sprinted away when the ref gave nothing typified all that is crap about that level of ‘football’.
I thought the ref was leaning their way all game. A Rovers player only had to touch a Palace charlatan for them to go down & the ref duly awarded them a free kick. The tackle on Ennis was shocking. Couldn’t believe it didn’t warrant a card.
Well done boys. Proud of you.
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The big difference was Hughes ability to link the play, pass through the lines, and bring momentum into the final third.
Rovers put in a big effort, but lacked the quality in midfield to deliver decent service to the front.
Olowu was outstanding, and Senior did well off the bench.
Not sure that this was a game for Ennis, who looked lost first half.
Some poor delivery from dead balls from Rovers, without enough variation.
All in all, a good solid session, but I never thought that a win was likely!
Something we've missed massively ever since Whiteman left. But fair play to Hughes , like you say moves the ball forward well into dangerous areas as opposed to making the easy sideways or backwards pass more often than not .
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Gutted at switching off for the first goal, real sloppy one. Apart from that we did a lot well. Deserve plenty of credit for that performance.
Not sure it was a case of switching off, just unlucky that when it bounced back of the post it hit Billy and deflected the ball straight to their player 3 yards out!
The ball to Matetta was far too easy. He should have scored. We switched off.
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Gutted at switching off for the first goal, real sloppy one. Apart from that we did a lot well. Deserve plenty of credit for that performance.
Not sure it was a case of switching off, just unlucky that when it bounced back of the post it hit Billy and deflected the ball straight to their player 3 yards out!
The ball to Matetta was far too easy. He should have scored. We switched off.
I thought it was a foul, he ended up free because the guy next to him was pushed away. Clever, but a foul for me.
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Before the game I was really interested to see which Rovers players have REAL quality, not just working hard, but those not looking out of place, going nose to nose displaying their skill and composure against very very good players. I can now put that to bed. Sterry, Olowu and Mols are quite simply our best players. If we could’ve added two more with their quality I’d be very confident of an automatic promotion.
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Surely you can add Anderson onto that list based on last night’s performance.?
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Before the game I was really interested to see which Rovers players have REAL quality, not just working hard, but those not looking out of place, going nose to nose displaying their skill and composure against very very good players. I can now put that to bed. Sterry, Olowu and Mols are quite simply our best players. If we could’ve added two more with their quality I’d be very confident of an automatic promotion.
Maxwell showed up well too in this company. He was reading the game in the way he did when he first got into the team before his injury - much potential there. In fact, once above the crude physicality of L2 a few more might well surprise us.
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The big difference was Hughes ability to link the play, pass through the lines, and bring momentum into the final third.
Rovers put in a big effort, but lacked the quality in midfield to deliver decent service to the front.
Olowu was outstanding, and Senior did well off the bench.
Not sure that this was a game for Ennis, who looked lost first half.
Some poor delivery from dead balls from Rovers, without enough variation.
All in all, a good solid session, but I never thought that a win was likely!
Something we've missed massively ever since Whiteman left. But fair play to Hughes , like you say moves the ball forward well into dangerous areas as opposed to making the easy sideways or backwards pass more often than not .
Definitely helps Hughes having teammates who make a yard to receive the ball and play it at pace. Constant movement up and down the pitch. They all have confidence in each other to make the ball theirs, rarely miscontroling, rarely hesitating. We haven't really seen the likes of that since the O'Driscoll era.
The free kick for their first goal originated from Bailey hesitating to play a simple pass and being closed down.
Our best moments came from quick passages of play so we know the players are capable. It's just the belief and commitment that wavers.
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Gutted at switching off for the first goal, real sloppy one. Apart from that we did a lot well. Deserve plenty of credit for that performance.
Not sure it was a case of switching off, just unlucky that when it bounced back of the post it hit Billy and deflected the ball straight to their player 3 yards out!
The ball to Matetta was far too easy. He should have scored. We switched off.
Both goals were poor to concede from our point of view, we lost the ball unnecessarily cheaply in midfield prior to conceding the free kick.
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Rovers gave a fantastic account of themselves last night and every Rovers fan should be as proud as punch. My old Grandad would have been delighted at giving a very decent premier team a game.
The difference in the teams (not just last night but in general) is two fold in my view; Palace made fewer errors and were very well organised. Each time Rovers had the ball the Palace players were back into their positions within a couple of seconds at most, preventing any quick attacking breaks. Rovers took just that little longer thus presenting a bit more opportunity to attack. Again, this isn’t just based on last night but what I tend to see watching most cup games.
Well done to the team though and I’m sure that Rovers will be right up there at the end of the season.
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On reflection, I think we created more opportunities than Plymouth v Liverpool with Plymouth getting the rub of the green with a handball penalty. Plymouth obviously defended for their lives to keep Liverpool out but offensively, I think we put up a better fist of it and a goal even at two down could have made it very uncomfortable for Palace.
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On reflection, I think we created more opportunities than Plymouth v Liverpool with Plymouth getting the rub of the green with a handball penalty. Plymouth obviously defended for their lives to keep Liverpool out but offensively, I think we put up a better fist of it and a goal even at two down could have made it very uncomfortable for Palace.
Totally agree with you. Rovers created quite a few good chances last night which, against a defence as well organised as Palace, is some achievement.
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It seemed every corner created panic in the Palace defence.
We said a goal would have been fair justice particularly watching the highlights back and seeing the way the pulled both defenders away to free up Mateta for the opening goal.
Also the foul on Ennis would 9 times out of 10 merited either a yellow or red.
Well done to the team last night.
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Hughes was the difference between the two teams last night.
His passing was really good (I think he only gave the ball away a couple of times) and he was constantly moving into space to make himself available to receive the ball or offer himself up as an option.
Our boys gave a good account of themselves overall but unlike others, I thought that Maxwell was our weak link defensively, they got behind him several times and his distribution was quite poor.
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I was hugely impressed with Wharton and Hughes. Their ability to create forward momentum from the least promising of situations was superb. Time and again, they'd pick up the ball in deep midfield under pressure. In L2, we'd have done our job at that point. The opposition midfield would play the ball to defenders or keeper. Not those two. ALWAYS looking for the quick pass forward, or dribble out of the congestion or half turn reception of the ball to make 5 yards of space.
We aspire to do that down the wings and some of the Molyneux/Sterry interactions are excellent. But those two for Palace were doing it time and again right through the middle.
No shame in that for us.