Another brilliant come back at London Road moves The Eagles back to the top spot!
As I mentioned in my previous post I was hoping Grant McCann would not start for the posh but he did and he nicked the first goal of the game in the 6th minute. After some poor Palace defending the unmarked Grant McCann was able to knock the ball in the back of the net from some good build up play by George Boyd. After the Posh goal Peterborough were resilient and Crystal Palace found it hard to break them down. During the second half of the game I was starting to fear the worst and I thought our unbeaten run was going to slip away, but boy I was so glad I was wrong. Glenn Murray missed a golden opportunity with a free header at the back post as he was unmarked and it seemed easier to score then to miss but some how he manged to head the ball at the deck and the ball bounced over the bar. After that awful miss by Murray I thought it was going to be one of those evenings but Palace proved resilient and they eventually they wore the home team down.
A great move from Palace in the middle of the park saw the ball slipped into the path of Andre Moritz he took on the shot and coolly slotted the ball past the Austrian keeper Robert Olejnik. To be fair the goal was coming and Palace finished the game with a total of 22 shots. The Peterborough performance reminded of the old Crystal Palace a couple of seasons ago when we would score an early goal and sit back on a 1 nil lead and we would eventually be punished. The goal by Moritz gave Palace the belief and hunger to go and score the second, no way were they going to settle for a draw. A Peterborough corner was cleared and the ball fell to Zaha. He took the ball down well and sprinted with the ball a good 70 yards shaking off challenges and slotting the ball into the path of KG. KG decided to take the shot on first time and it was a brilliant finish into the bottom corner, it was a similar finish to the goal previously scored by Andre Moritz. The counter attack was text book and other teams should watch the footage over and over again as it was the perfect example of defense turned into attack. Counter attacks are defiantly part of the Ian Holloway philosophy and that was a move he would be proud of. These types of games really test a teams mettle as when your backs are to the wall and you are desperate to score goals you can be caught out at the back and you can become frustrated but the team remained calm and they scored the vital goals they needed to win the game.
Happy Birthday Wilf, once again you produced another mesmerizing performance. I do like to buy the Sun on Sunday especially when Palace win and it is refreshing to see Wilfried Zaha in the team of the week, he is literally in there every week the kid is something special. He is now 20 years of age and his game is really starting to mature and it won't be long before he is the complete player. We really need to hold on to him this season as he really is the key to promotion. Talking about the Sun I have a gripe with them. A chap called Geoff Knox (@GeoffKnox67) wrote the piece about the Crystal Palace in the paper and it was a fairly decent review however he described us a "the skint Londoners." I am really starting to get sick of the media portraying us as this poor football club that does not have two pennies to rub together. Yes a few years ago we were in administration but the club was bought out by CPFC 2010 and they do not want to throw money at players and won't allow the club to slip back into administration. When will the media do their homework and understand that we may not be Leicester City but we certainly have more cash then a lot of teams in the championship.
Derby County next week, lets hope for 3 more points.
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