Match Day Palace v Man Utd, Monday 5th March 20:00

[Cornish Piskie]

Palace without a win in almost two months. Christ, even Everton have beaten them recently.

Unfortunately, I can't see anything but a comfortable away win here.

0-2

You should look a little harder.

United scraped home with a 3rd-minute-of-injury-time winner - OK, so there's no law against that - because the defender who should have blocked Matic's shot flinched instead of standing tall. If the defender doesn't lose his bottle.... if he takes a football in his face for the team.... Palace get a draw and Pep goes to bed chuckling under his breath at United dropping two points. Not that he'll lose any sleep over United closing to within 16 points with only 9 games left to play.

Of course, it was a great fightback from 0-2 down, late in the game, but the fact that they had to make that fightback is because Palace weren't the walkover United expected them to be.

Palace have played both Manchester clubs at home this season and late in the game were in a position to win both. That they failed to do so is probably the best illustration of why they are where they are. Good teams win such matches. Palace didn't. One point instead of a should-have-been six tells its own tale on the league table.

 

[Pagnell]

You should look a little harder.

Yeah. My prediction was ridiculous looking at the form of both clubs. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Cornish Piskie]

Yeah. My prediction was ridiculous looking at the form of both clubs. Thanks for pointing it out.

No worries, Pags. I'll forgive the sarcasm. Your prediction was pretty accurate on paper, but football isn't played on paper.

If predictions were that easy to make there'd be a lot of poor bookies around. But there aren't.

For what it's worth, I think United fans are entitled to feel a little frustrated at the way the Premier League has worked out this season.

In any other season 62 points at this stage would see them right in the mix.

I reckon a top four place is pretty well assured. So, if they want a trophy it'll have to be either the FA Cup or Champions League. Will Jose settle for targeting the FA Cup or go for bust in the ECL..? Or perhaps even go for both..?

Waddya think..?

 

[Rotimi]

Concentrating on the cups could mean a finish outside the top 4 for United if the other teams get their act together. What's worse, they don't look like they can get to the Champions League finals, much less win it. That's why you have a big squad of highly paid pros anyway, to deal with playing in three/four competitions over the course of 10 months

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