What a weird game this was. Going into it i thought Alisson would have do to jumping jacks to stay warm and awake but ended up having to pick up the goal from inside the net 3x. Playing Palace i thought it'd be a tight 1-0, 2-1 game, but def not a high scoring one. Palace are not bad going forward and probably would not be fighting for their PL life if they didn't have such an awful manager and tactics.
What a different the 2nd half was. After being defensively spotless the first half, for some reason the first 10 or so minutes of the 2nd half Palace were unorganized and sloppy in their clearances and with the help of Lady Luck, who has been smiling at us all year long (except for the game at City where she was a total bi*ch), we were able to get over the hump in this one.
Feel for Milner as he struggled back there but when you're down to your 3rd choice in any position, a drop off in quality is to be expected. Getting the 3 points is all that matters and we're not always going to win pretty and its these type of hard-fought, grinding wins that show whether you are title-winning caliber or not, and we keep passing every test.
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