Cardiff: Marshall; Theophile-Catherine, Turner, Caulker, Taylor, Whittingham, Medel, Mutch, Noone, Odemwingie, Campbell.
West Brom: Myhill, Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Ridgewell, Mulumbu, Yacob, Amalfitano, Sessegnon, Brunt, Long.
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Cardiff: Marshall; Theophile-Catherine, Turner, Caulker, Taylor, Whittingham, Medel, Mutch, Noone, Odemwingie, Campbell.
West Brom: Myhill, Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Ridgewell, Mulumbu, Yacob, Amalfitano, Sessegnon, Brunt, Long.
Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Azpilicueta, Ramires, Essien, Willian, Mata, Hazard, Torres.
Subs: Cole, Lampard, Oscar, Schurrle, Ba, Schwarzer, Eto'o.
Crystal Palace: Speroni, Mariappa, Gabbidon, Delaney, Ward, Puncheon, Jedinak, Dikgacoi, Bannan, Chamakh, Jerome.
Subs: Parr, Bolasie, O'Keefe, Gayle, Jonathan Williams, Kebe, Price.
Come on Palace.
I know I'm down but I worry whether we have what it takes to capitalise on rivals' poor results. Of course i still revel in bad results, but Citeh are making theirs' increasingly irrelevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost of Xmas Past
Well we're top of the league still so we must have been doing it to some extent. Whether we continue to, no idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
Chelsea 1-0 Palace, Torres.
Yes but the disappointment is that our league position didn't convince the doubters, and suddenly our results aren't either.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost of Xmas Past
That wouldn't happen until we actually won it, we're not in the position where we can soup our squads up to win those kind of games, at least not consistently and at least not yet - maybe in the future. And in truth even if we did, like Man Utd often found, they were always placed as second favourites behind Chelsea.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
The last time we truly got pumped in the league was the 8-2 and we're in a far better position now (I don't just mean in terms of league position) compared to then.
Everton 1-0 Fulham, Osman.
Mate. 6-3 is a pumping for title pretenders. Noones saying that we haven't progressed. we have. But we are competing against teams who can make 8(?) changes against the CL Champs and beat them away. And we have to be realistic about where we are. IMHO in terms of eventual league position we are not massively different to our teams of the past 8 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost of Xmas Past
How would a 3-0 defeat have been viewed? We drew there 1-1 last season but were nowhere near the top. You say realistic to be where we are, well that is beating most of the other sides in the league - home and away and that's why we are where we are, we've been doing that better than other teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
If we are in the same position as in the past 8 years and perhap we are, I don't really know, I can only hope that we are now in the situation where there is no need for us to sell our best players in the summer.
Newcastle 1-0 Southampton, Gouffran.