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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 11:57:44 GMT
Wilfred Zaha is the hinge on which the Palace door swings. That's my view. And with Benteke alongside him I am expecting good things even if the Tourney says otherwise.
But West Brom will be firing away following the one-nothing win over the admittedly already relegated Sheff Utd.
West Brom: Johnstone, Furlong, Ajayi, Ivanovic, Bartley, Phillips, Matheus Pereira, Gallagher, Sawyers, Diangana, Ahearne-Grant.
Palace: Guaita, Clyne, Kouyate, Cahill, van Aanholt, Schlupp, Milivojevic, McArthur, Eze, Benteke, Zaha.
WBA 15/8
PALACE 6/4
DRAW 9/4
Wolves v Pool, don't be a fool
Spurs and Arse, what a farce
Sheff U at Leicester, take a siesta
We're here, we're now
For a proper fiesta.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:09:08 GMT
Zaha straight into the action with a little shimmy and a shot that just flies over the bar early doors.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:14:25 GMT
The Palace free-kick is played to Zaha who executes another shimmy and feeds a cross into the box. It is turned into his own net by Furlong with not even ten minutes gone.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:24:19 GMT
Benteke angles one in from the edge of the box to Zaha who can't get a clean hit on it and it goes wide.
Now Sawyers can't cope with Schlupp's speed and the Albion man trips him over for a yellow card.
Furlong on '19 cracks the bar with his head. He wants to redeem himself as WBA edge their way back into it. It was a good powerful header and let's hope there's more of that.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:36:14 GMT
It's a goal.
Furlong, the own goal culprit, crosses one in for Gallagher to polish off with ease. That was a good 20+ pass build-up from Albion and it's one-all on the half-hour.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:37:55 GMT
Oh here comes trouble. It's a VAR on a possible red. The ref goes to consult his monitor.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:41:58 GMT
And Peirera is off!
He went into a challenge with Palace's van Aanholt. Perirera went to the ground but his legs were raised in the direction of Van's stomach. It didn't look like a Son-style lash-out to me. Oh dear, that's harsh. It's Albion down to ten men and the game is possibly ruined.
You can hear a weary "Oh f*ck off" from the mic, presumably from the West Brom bench. Peirera trudges off.
West Brom need to see out the rest of the half and re-group during the break.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 12:55:39 GMT
Ref Tierney blows up for the half and the players trudge off. Instructed by VAR to consult his screen he pulled out a red card for what you would think is violent conduct by Peirera. But it's highly debatable. The linos rush over like sheep to escort Tierney off the field. It might be a quite dull second half coming up.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 13:22:09 GMT
Goal. Goal on '55. Goal for Palace on '55.
Gallagher is denied a penalty at one end and it goes up the other for a Palace corner, from which there is a degree of Palace play around the box without serious assault from Albion. It eventually falls to Zaha just inside the box. He unleashes an angled drive that ripples the back of the net like honey dripping onto a spoon. Marvellous stuff, and Albion no chance now surely.
WBA 1 Palace 2.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 13:25:04 GMT
Benteke! A build-up out there on the left sees the cross whipped in to the big man who stoops to head it in from yards out for 1-3 on the hour. That'll do Benteke the world of good especially after Andy Townsend's cheap in-play comment last week about his career being "nowhere now".
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 13:32:49 GMT
Zaha! He pots his 2nd of the game against a ragged looking West Brom on '67. Eze ran with it into the box and played a delightful one-two with Benteke before feeding it to Zaha who stabbed it home for 1-4.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 13:46:43 GMT
Take that, Andy Townsend! Benteke gets his 2nd of the game on '82 after a dozen-pass build-up. He received it in the box and turned expertly to drill it low and hard for 1-5. Yes, 5. That's an EPL first for Palace.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 6, 2020 13:56:16 GMT
The ref blows up on a resounding win for Crystal Palace who very well might have seen off West Brom if Albion had retained all their men on the pitch. The home side never adapted to losing Pereira and they slip a place to 19th on GD. Palace climb to 11th.
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Post by Zos on Dec 6, 2020 16:05:32 GMT
Wilfred Zaha is the hinge on which the Palace door swings. That's my view. And with Benteke alongside him I am expecting good things even if the Tourney says otherwise. But West Brom will be firing away following the one-nothing win over the admittedly already relegated Sheff Utd. West Brom: Johnstone, Furlong, Ajayi, Ivanovic, Bartley, Phillips, Matheus Pereira, Gallagher, Sawyers, Diangana, Ahearne-Grant. Palace: Guaita, Clyne, Kouyate, Cahill, van Aanholt, Schlupp, Milivojevic, McArthur, Eze, Benteke, Zaha. WBA 15/8 PALACE 6/4 DRAW 9/4 Wolves v Pool, don't be a fool Spurs and Arse, what a farce Sheff U at Leicester, take a siesta We're here, we're now For a proper fiesta. I think that's a kind way of saying that Palace are a one man team, which they pretty much are. Poor old Wilf is chained to a wall between matches he's so desperate to leave.
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