This deserves its own thread. There seems to be some weird notion that because we didn’t score or create it was Vieira’s fault and that our attacking players are superstars and underperforming.
The attacking players aren’t good enough, and our best one was out injured for a huge chunk of our poor run. This is one of the misconceptions that I think Parish has, and it is colouring his decision making, culminating in sacking a fantastic young manager who needed support rather than the boot.
Olise is superb, but lacks pace for wing + underlying goals nos not there.
Zaha is our GOAT but can no longer do it on his own (down on pace)
Eze is talented but lacks pace to do it in the PL, especially post injury
Edouard lacks pace and strength to do it in the PL regularly. Can finish
Mateta is one of the worst signings of recent times. Totally shit.
Ayew can’t score. Lacks pace.
Schlupp is a 1 in 10 player that plays for ten minute bursts.
Can you see the theme there? Where is this ******* attacking talent everyone talks about that’s going to score all the goals? I can’t see it. Edouard might get a few with proper service, Zaha should get enough of the rest to keep us up this season now fixtures are easing. Olise will be a fantastic 8 or 10 in time. We just aren’t good enough in the attacking third. There’s no pace once you take Zaha out of the equation, and even he is down on the decent pace he had 4 years ago. The rest of them are Championship standard when it comes to pace levels. Even the clubs below us in the PL have a pacy front line and will score more goals than us. We have lots of tricky players, but even if they were all goalscorers the lack of pace would cause problems with the balance of the side. Olise will be a superstar for us in midfield. But the entire front line needs replacing in the summer with new FIRST XI players:
1) New left winger
2) New centre forward
3) New right winger
That’s what we need, but whether we will get it remains to be seen. Mateta, Edouard, Eze can all be sold and Ayew and Schlupp can go too if they are not happy to be squad players. Keep Olise, but understand he won’t ever be the flying right winger some people think he will be. He’s not that type of player. He didn’t beat Zinchenko once yesterday, he’s not a goalscorer. He is a creative type of player who will score 5-8 goals a season playing behind the front 3, and run hard box to box linking the play. Gallagher papered over our attacking limitations by chipping in with lots of goals which made it seem we were better in this area than we were. The truth is we struggled to create last season unless the press robbed the opposition high up. We created nothing ourselves from having ball in our own half. Even before that we were a counter attacking team relying on Wilf to do it on his own. You have to go back to when we had Bolasie and Zaha before you find a decent attacking Palace side.
The attacking players aren’t good enough, and our best one was out injured for a huge chunk of our poor run. This is one of the misconceptions that I think Parish has, and it is colouring his decision making, culminating in sacking a fantastic young manager who needed support rather than the boot.
Olise is superb, but lacks pace for wing + underlying goals nos not there.
Zaha is our GOAT but can no longer do it on his own (down on pace)
Eze is talented but lacks pace to do it in the PL, especially post injury
Edouard lacks pace and strength to do it in the PL regularly. Can finish
Mateta is one of the worst signings of recent times. Totally shit.
Ayew can’t score. Lacks pace.
Schlupp is a 1 in 10 player that plays for ten minute bursts.
Can you see the theme there? Where is this ******* attacking talent everyone talks about that’s going to score all the goals? I can’t see it. Edouard might get a few with proper service, Zaha should get enough of the rest to keep us up this season now fixtures are easing. Olise will be a fantastic 8 or 10 in time. We just aren’t good enough in the attacking third. There’s no pace once you take Zaha out of the equation, and even he is down on the decent pace he had 4 years ago. The rest of them are Championship standard when it comes to pace levels. Even the clubs below us in the PL have a pacy front line and will score more goals than us. We have lots of tricky players, but even if they were all goalscorers the lack of pace would cause problems with the balance of the side. Olise will be a superstar for us in midfield. But the entire front line needs replacing in the summer with new FIRST XI players:
1) New left winger
2) New centre forward
3) New right winger
That’s what we need, but whether we will get it remains to be seen. Mateta, Edouard, Eze can all be sold and Ayew and Schlupp can go too if they are not happy to be squad players. Keep Olise, but understand he won’t ever be the flying right winger some people think he will be. He’s not that type of player. He didn’t beat Zinchenko once yesterday, he’s not a goalscorer. He is a creative type of player who will score 5-8 goals a season playing behind the front 3, and run hard box to box linking the play. Gallagher papered over our attacking limitations by chipping in with lots of goals which made it seem we were better in this area than we were. The truth is we struggled to create last season unless the press robbed the opposition high up. We created nothing ourselves from having ball in our own half. Even before that we were a counter attacking team relying on Wilf to do it on his own. You have to go back to when we had Bolasie and Zaha before you find a decent attacking Palace side.
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