Very disappointing performance. We just seem to have so many players that don't think "intelligently" when they do have the ball, or they are not taught to think that way. There are so many times where one of our players receives the ball, and then they wait until the opposition are right on them before they move it on, meaning that the passing angles are completely gone and it forces us to play the way the opposition want us to. Our shooting is dreadful, when we actually do create chances. We make the pitch feel small and crammed, when we need to make it wider by stretching the play and creating space. We choose the wrong passes, we overhit and underhit crosses, we waste free kicks (and now penalties), we make the wrong decisions when we do have the ball and we, criminally, give away too many easy goals. Both Palace goals today should have been prevented.
I don't see progression in our team. I don't look at Rashford and Lingard, for example and think that they are better players than when they first appeared as regulars. We have huge, fundamental problems with our football club from a coaching perspective that could actually be improved, to a certain point. Every single one of our players today could have played better than they did. We need to get right back to the absolute basics of the game and re-learn how to play it in order to win. We were never in a position in this game where we even looked remotely close to winning.