It looked a conscious tactic from Palace yesterday, to close off the space around Dunk, so that JPVH had to be chief distributor instead. He completed 11 of his 11 attempted long passes, so that went well…
Is there somewhere we can rewatch JP’s outrageous back heel pass thing, under pressure on the edge of our box. Sky inexplicably never shown a replay of it. I swear it was better than his Cruyff turn on Haaland.
So would everyone! We play 38 league games, 6 Europa League group games, and then have the FA Cup and League Cup. Absolute minimum is 46 games. If we finish top two in the Europa League group that's at least two more games in a two-legged knockout tie. Even if we only finish third in the group...