Chapter 1: What was the dramatic moment in the Crystal Palace vs West Ham match?
Dramatic end to the game, but it started well for West Ham here at the London Stadium. They went ahead through Sebastian Alla, but there was an equalizer when Declan Rice handled the ball. The penalty was awarded. In the absence of Milovojevic, Van Aanholt was the penalty taker. Jordan Ayew had the ball in the back of the net. It was disallowed for offside.
Chapter 2: How did VAR influence the outcome of the game?
It went to VAR. Two minutes, 12 seconds later, that decision was overturned. The goal was awarded, and with two minutes left to play, Crystal Palace were in front. It finished 2-1 to Crystal Palace. Really, in terms of the stats, not that much between the two sides. West Ham just edged it in terms of attempts and in terms of possession and in terms of passes.
But Crystal Palace with more touches in the opposition's box. But the most important stat, as always, is the scoreline. And it's gone Crystal Palace's way. Thanks to Patrick van Aanholt, who got his celebration underway. But Jordan Ayew... Had to wait for his. Both of them, though, talking to Jeff Shreves.
Jordan, Patrick, you're all smiles now because you're looking at a replay of the goal. But how tense was it out there?
Very tense, you know, especially when you can't run no down at this place. It's hard to recover from it. But we did well. We came back and luckily we won the game.
When I said how tense was it, I was referring to the weight you had whilst VAR made its decision.
Well, sometimes, like I told you before, you need a bit of luck and I think today we deserved a few points.
It was a tight game, but we were lucky and, you know, we take it. Did you have a clue whether you were onside or offside?
I thought I was onside, but the line-up told me Martin Kelly was maybe offside.
But luckily it's a goal and we take it. What's it like when you've got to wait that long? Usually when you wait that long it means it's a goal, so it's positive. Patrick, you took the penalty in the absence of your normal penalty taker, the skipper, Lucas. Had you trained and planned all week to take them?
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Chapter 3: What were the key statistics comparing West Ham and Crystal Palace?
Before the game, the gaffer came in the meeting and said, I want to take a penalty, and he looked at me and said, what did you take? I said, yeah, I'm confident enough to take one, and I took one and I made the backhand hit.
That's seven out of ten wins away from home now. Is that reflected in the way, even though you went behind, you never stopped believing?
We never stop believing. In this team, we've got good characters and we work very hard and I think we showed it today. We came 1-0 behind, maybe I should have stopped the cross, but like I said, we did very well and came back in the game and we won the game in the end.
Jordan, up to fourth, what does that mean to you? Well, it's positive.
We just need to keep going. The most important thing for us is to hit the 40 points and go in the right direction. Hopefully, if we get to 40 points, then we'll see where we can get to.
That's very conservative, just looking for 40 points. Is that pessimistic or should you be looking higher?
No, no, it's the truth. It's the truth and that's the target. We just keep going and we never know what can happen, but the target is 40 points. Do you agree?
Yeah, of course, you know, but with this team, I think the quality we have in this team and all around it with the staff, I think we can aim for higher, you know, because I think we started the season very well and we need to continue now.
Fabulous job today, you got all three points, well done, guys. Cheers, cheers, cheers.
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Chapter 4: How did players react to the late winner?
Thank you very much, thank you both, thank you.
both players very much towing the party line that 40 points is still the aim, but they sit in fourth place. They're in the Champions League spots after that late, late winner. Disallowed, then overturned on reflection by VAR. What do you think about the decision, Clinton?
They got it right. It took a lot of time. And when it takes that long with VAR, then you know they're going to overturn it. And to be fair, Kelly, I'm not a fan of VAR, but today I'm a fan of VAR. Not so much. Because it's helped Palace. It's a really good goal. Townsend does well. Good knockback by Kelly. We've been saying it all game. Jordan Ayew needs to be in the six-yard box.
So there's two offsides to check. This is the first one.
Well, he's not offside. Which is Diop. Yeah, he's not offside there. Townsend, it's a good ball. He's in line. And this one. Well, you know, you can see why the linesman's give it because he obviously you can't see no West Ham player there. But I think with VAR, that's what it's there for. Makes the right call. As we can see with VAR, he was just on side. It's a really good finish as well.
Do you have any any issue with this, James?
You can't argue with AR. That's what it's there for. It's going to be there. You can see why the linesmen give it offside, because to the plain eye, it does look. But that's why there's been such talk about it, and it's there for those sort of decisions.
It is just millimetres, isn't it, Emma? Well, I'm looking at it, and I still can't work out how they can determine whether it's on or offside, because... These are marginal details, but the realities are a decision has to be made. And I think most would favour the attacker in that situation. And I think it's much deserved for Crystal Palace's second half performance.
I mean, I thought the home team laboured a lot of the game, bar a 15-minute spell in the second half. I think Palace deserved not just their equaliser, but have gone on to win the game.
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Chapter 5: What were the players' thoughts on the penalty decision?
Did you agree with Emma that West Ham didn't do enough to win this game, that maybe it was Crystal Palace's?
Yeah, we spoke at half-time and, you know, the chances West Ham had first half, you know, it was there for everyone to see. And I think they got the goal and they sort of sat back. I think I said upstairs, you know, I could really see West Ham going on and winning this 2 or 3-0. But they sort of backed off and let Crystal Palace get back into the game.
And unfortunately in this game, if you don't score, take your chances and score your goals.
Or do you just think it was the timing of the equaliser? Because you couldn't have seen that coming.
on the timing of that change you don't see the winner coming you know like i said west ham they didn't do enough to go and win the game from one nil and like you say we spoke about it before with the attacking threat that crystal palace have they're always going to get chances and you know i'm sure the west ham management and the players and they'll be kicking themselves that they haven't you know held on or at least gone and won the game quite comfortably
Well, we can get some West Ham perspective on that now. Mark Noble at the final whistle and just following the goal decision, showing real disappointment. This is what he had to say with Jeff Shreves.
Mark, frustrating day for you where two big decisions don't go your way.
Yeah, I mean... The first after the goalkeeper made two saves that he didn't know about that on another day go in the back of the net from Seb and from a rebound from himself. Manu has a great chance, Felipe has another great chance, two of them. Maybe we should have gone up.
Obviously, Ryan Cleary is one off the line for them, but when you score a goal like our goal, the way we moved it and passed it and then finally got the breakthrough, everything on the day went against us, to be honest. Everything, the goal, I don't think Dec knows anything about it. the handball, and then the offside decision, which is millimetres, so just disappointing.
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Chapter 6: How did Crystal Palace manage to secure the win?
was really good. Good play from Fredericks and it's a really good finish.
You'd see Barcelona score a goal like that and we'd all be talking about it, you know, and it's credit to West Ham. Like I said, they were playing well, they were on top and then to sit back for whatever reason and not really kick on as everyone thought they were and win the game or score more goals is, like I said, Manuel Pellegrini would be bitterly disappointed.
It's one of those goals you normally see in analysis with little triangles drawn all over it. Definitely. It was a 4v4 rondo down inside the touchline. I think the ability to pull Crystal Palace apart is something they didn't do enough of. Especially second half. Anderson in particular, I thought... He took up wider positions, but they were far too narrow in the first half.
And you felt after the goal, West Ham are going to go and win the game comfortably, but they just didn't capitalise.
You've got to give Gary Cahill credit there as well. I think he came in, he's come into that back four and he's changed the look of Crystal Palace. He's a leader, he's an experienced head, as we spoke about. He's pulling people around. And it took a goal like that for West Ham to break him down, which is credit to Palace.
But that style of football, yes, West Ham have missed out on the chance to go into the top four. They're still in seventh place in the table. Is that style and the way that they play one of the reasons why people are talking about them as one of the sides who could break into the top six this season?
Definitely, we've seen that all season. They've got tremendous football players in that team, all very comfortable on the ball. Like I said, if you see this goal from an Arsenal or Barcelona, it'd be everywhere.
It's great football and I was lucky enough to train with West Ham last year and Manuel Pellegrini, this is all they were doing, constant rondos, possession-based football and the players they've got in, they're comfortable doing that and like I said, it's a world-class goal.
A world-class goal and a world-class size of price tag on Sebastian Alla. They've been looking for that right striker for a long time. Have they got him?
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Chapter 7: What did the managers say about their teams' performances?
Emma, from a manager's perspective, Roy Hodgson using his years of experience to say to the players, you have to keep your head straight, you have to keep... He's doing a lot more eloquently than I would. You had to keep your head straight and your feet on the ground, is what I was going to say.
He took years to explain that. By me? Not by you, by Roy, but it was a classic experience manager's post-game speech, which is, we're not getting carried away, we deserve something, but remind us to the players of all the fundamentals that have gotten to this point. And he's right, Crystal Palace did deserve something.
As a neutral watching the game, you felt that the longer it was going on with a restless crowd, perhaps they could get something like they did with a big VAR decision. You see with his sense of humor shining through with his 100% VAR record. It's certainly been a... a winning start. I don't know if it's the first win he's had at this stadium, but it very much felt like that.
It is the first win that he's had at this stadium. Six Premier League games before this one. Never had a win. He's managed to do it this time around with Crystal Palace. And it's their third best start to a top-flight season, Clinton. But when you actually look at the two seasons previous to this one...
One point in it, and that's the difference between finishing in third in 1991 under Steve Koppel and 15th under Alan Pardew a few years ago. So you can understand. I mean, there's practical reasons there why Roy Hodgson is trying to keep his players' heads in the... Yeah, definitely.
Again, heads in the clouds. No, yeah, you're right. Definitely. If you look at Palace over the past few years, they've never had a great start. Palace fans are in dreamland at the moment. Things are going well. You can see there's a good togetherness in there. I've mentioned it many times and I'll keep mentioning it.
I think the addition of Gary Cahill, proper experience centre-half, he galvanised that group. There's proper leadership there. But the start from Palace has been excellent. Palace fans should be happy. Coming to West Ham and beating West Ham 2-1 is a hard thing to do. So credit to all the players and to the management staff this evening.
He'd be delighted, Roy, there. I know he's been quite calm in his interview there. But, you know, to come here and get three points against an informed West Ham team with the games they've got coming up, it's huge for Crystal Palace. And he'll know that. And I'm sure he'll have a couple of glasses of red wine tonight to celebrate.
Yeah, he mentioned those games coming up. He'll probably need a little bit of red wine to go through that fixtureless, Emma.
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for both teams after this match?
But, Clinton, that's the point. Is it a blip? Because this is, if you look at their 40-game record across this calendar, and I know football isn't played across calendar years, but it just indicates a trend rather than...
You're spot on. It's not a blip because this is continuing from last season. They were poor last season. As Emma said, probably lucky to get to the Champions League final. Well, you've got to be lucky and you earn your own luck when you go onto that football pitch. So, yeah, I wouldn't say it's crisis time, but there's big problems at Tottenham and they need to sort
But the difference last season is that they didn't concede goals like they're conceding goals. In fact, the problem was at the opposite end, not being able to win games by bigger margins, I think, and leaving teams in it. This season, they look so vulnerable defensively.
And, you know, I have to say, looking at Alderweireld, you can see why Tottenham are letting him run down his last year, to be honest with you.
I've sort of questioned as well, is Pochettino looking at Zidane's position at Madrid? You know, he's been mentioned about getting a Madrid job. Has he maybe taken his foot off the gas and changed a few things? You know, you don't really know. It's a mad one. And like I said, they are struggling. And, you know, it'll be interesting to see how it works itself out.
And of course, that can potentially have an effect on the players. But it's certainly been a difficult week for Tottenham. As we said, it's been ups and downs over the last 40 games in which they've lost more than they've won. We've got two weeks now to be able to talk about their next Premier League game after the international break. This is what's going to be coming up for you on Sky Sports.
Tonight, it is the million-pound game. Toronto taking on Featherstone for a place in Super League. That's on right now on Sky Sports Arena and the Shriners Hospital for Children open day three from 10 p.m. on Sky Sports Golf from Las Vegas. Meanwhile, here at the London Stadium, Crystal Palace have taken all three points and they go up into the Champions League places.
Coming up on Sky Sports Premier League. Tomorrow... Southampton versus Chelsea. And Newcastle versus Manchester United. All coming up live on Sky Sports Premier League.
Sky Sports Premier League. Feel it all.
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