Come on guys, we shouldn't be worried about what Chelsea do. We need to win our games and that will see us through.
I cant believe that some fans are so negative that they trust more in Chelsea's players (to beat LFC) than our own players to beat Palace.
Falcao, Di Maria, Rooney, De Gea, Herrera, Blind, Mata. These are all players that most teams in the World would kill for....including Crystal Palace. And its up to LVG to get these superstars to win the game.
My only worry is that LVG has not tweaked his tactics and is going to attempt to play the same sideways passing, high possession football, if/when Palace use the "park the bus" (PTB) tactic.
And if this happens, then perhaps LVG needs the wake up call which another loss to the PTB tactic, will bring.
I believe that after 10 minutes LVG needs to recognise if our opponent is using the PTB tactic. If this is being used, he needs to issue the instructions to our players to switch to Plan B (which will have been previously practised in training, every week). Against WBA, Southampton, Chelsea etc, when the PTB tactic was being used, we simply continued playing in exactly the same way - there was no change in tactic and as a result, we scored zero goals in these games. If a plan isnt working for 70 minutes, we cant expect it to suddenly start working after 70 minutes - we need to proactively change something.
Against West Ham we were getting nowhere. LVG recognised this and brought on Fellaini. The moment he came on, West Ham just could not handle him and we scored. This sort of change in plan is not happening when the PTB tactic is being used against us and its frustrating as hell.
