Any love for palace 45/1 to get relegated. I think they likely to get smashed next 3 games and this price likely to
Drop dramatically as they go to lower mid table. So even if it's bet to lay.
Pardew is awful manager who can't coach good attacking footballers. Defensively palace don't look so great and going forward they've scored one goal in open play in 6 games. He will slowly coach out all
Ability the team has. None of their 5 strikers have scored all season. All the teams around then have guys who are capable of scoring goals.
West brom and stoke beig 6/1 and palace being 45/1 doesn't sit right with me. If the fans who are usually amazing start turning on Pardews awful management then their fortress may not be so strong in a couple of months and with their upcoming fixtures they could go into the Christmas period that's very important with no confidence, fans who are starting to become unhappy at Pardews constant excuses and lack of any imagination.
Other teams below them in table
Swansea - have very very good chance of not being relegated, way more complete team than palace
West Brom - Pulis should grind out enough points
Stoke - too much talent
Teams that are likely to struggle
Sunderland
Villa
Bournemouth
Newcastle
Norwich
Watford
Of course it's not "likely" to happen but 45/1 seems pretty big.
There is value there at 45/1 for Palace to go down, it is an absurd price compared to West Brom.
Defensively we are quite sound just to counter what you said, for example yesterday Leicester had only one genuine chance all game aside from the one we gifted them. Against Tottenham away, goalkeeping error let them in, Man City we conceded only 1. Sometimes we have looked dodgy but generally we are built on a sound defense and an explosive counter. so I don't think we are ever going to be out of many games all season.
Palace had no chances against Leicester however, which is embarrassing. We haven't got a target man and that is costing us. Wickham back soon. He doesn't even need to be prolific just hold it up to draw the midfield higher so Puncheon/Zaha/Sako can get in the goals more.
On Pardew I have only seen a couple of odd managerial moves. One was bringing on Jedinak while chasing the game in the last 20 mins yesterday. He's also played Bolasie up front too much. But fundamentally not terrible just yet, and can't attest to him being shit, but you had him a lot longer than we did and he has only ever been on the up here and will be interesting to see how he reacts to a prolonged poor spell.
For the bet you can look at in the previous two seasons we have had spells by which we were relegation bound so if that seed of doubt seeps in it has run havoc before. We could lose all confidence up front which is sort of happening now. But there was no Gayle yesterday and we do play better when he is available. But I would say even better with Wickham. And ffs get target man cover in January. Selling Murray a complete mistake.
It could go completely wrong despite how good our midfield are but it's doubtful,
however not so doubtful that we should be 45/1 so I would support a small bet for thread. I did back against Palace last week and didn't fancy them too much this week, I think that's sign enough there could be something in the bet ha.
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