Palace were shit. Really shit. Proper bottom of the table type shit. Their defence was a mess and they granted Ndidi the freedom of the middle of the pitch. He used it well
We were better than them, IMO - or at least until the last twenty minutes when our total coward of a manager had a complete brainfart of the highest order.
Mavididi, Ayew and especially Ndidi were excellent. Really ****ing excellent. But all three of them were shot to pieces on the hour mark. Fatawu, Buenanotte and possibly DCR at that point sees us home and hosed.
But ****ing Choudhury FFS. And then Coady FFS. And leaving a physically exhausted Ayew on FFS. The result was wave after wave after wave of Palace attack, as we retreated further and further back to our own 18 yard box, with no possible outlet at all whenever we managed to win the ball off them. It was complete ****ing surrender and we fully deserved what we got.
Feel sorry for those poor three attacking midfielders we brought in this summer, sitting on the bench watching ****ing Choudhury piss about along with a hundred defenders desperately waving the white flag
What a ****ing wasted opportunity