Baird of the land

Lovely goal by hojberg. Pretty Atrocious game on the whole that we found a way to draw. Long laughably bad. Falling over, handling the ball, clearing it when through. If an academy player played that badly we’d be told they should be loaned to league one.

Hardly, it’s the double whammy of being loan signings and ones that were signed extremely late in the window. Sims has already made an impact twice, so you’d expect him to get a start soon at reading.

Mccarthy Cedric Vestergaard Hoedt Bertrand Redmond Hojberg Lemina Mo Gallagher Ings Subs Gunn, Yoshi, Targett, Davis, Gabbi, Romeu, Austin

Get the feeling England just considered McCarthy and latterly Bettinelli as bodies to make up the numbers in training.

Gallagher.

Article didn’t even mention the movement away from youth progression which I expected to be a point when I read the headline. Thought on the whole it was rather poorly written. Who are the identical strikers it mentions?

Love international football. Nations league has a lot going for it in principle. Interested to see how it goes.

Guess vestergaard isn’t going on international duty then!

Didn't seem like a certain goal to me. That fumbled shot wasn't very likely to beat Hennessy who was right behind Wan Bissaka.

Cardiff Huddersfield Any of multiple including Saints

Odd as the burton match thread I was looking at described him as looking like a great addition.

That makes it even stranger that we had all jwp/Davis & Romeu on the bench.

Happy to see elyounessi look more effective.

Prefer he didn’t miss those but I’m happy that he’s at least willing to come for crosses. Coming & missing is better than just sitting imo. Did well getting a punch on one later too. Made some key good saves too.

I agree Austin up top by himself is stupidity. However that doesn’t mean someone who would miss an open goal from a yard out is better alongside Ings. For some reason Hughes decided to load the bench with midfielders today rather than include 2 better strikers he had at his disposal.

I watched the game we had 2 of our best chances once he left the pitch.(penalty & bar hit) Losing ings was when we sank into our own area.

2-0 nil before he came on. Hopefully he was involved in the 3rd.

We got the penalty and hit the bar after he went off. It's when we lost ings that we barely got out of our half I'm not doubting the fact he's a better outlet than Romeu but when you've got gallagher and gabbi & he wants to play that!

Much needed win. Not beating a palace without zaha would have been a major missed chance. First half seemed a missed opportunity as dominated the midfield but were very poor in final third. Lovely taken goal by Ings. Then Austin should have ended the game with the penalty. Not sure why Hughes didn't have another attacking player on the bench. Bringing on Romeu almost cost us as it just invited them on. 2nd goal lovely ball by (Targett?) & cool finish by mom Hojberg. Shane Long may have met a worse striker than him today in Benteke. Still don't have a clue why he is starting for us.

Well that was scary defending by saints in that goalmouth scramble. Thankfully Long is off.

We need to go and get a second against this poor palace outfit.

Approach play is not good because if it was we'd have had some good opportunities to score. We've been offered a glorious chance here with palace shorn of their one world class player & we've completely failed to take advantage of it so far.

Poor half by saints. Some decent play by hojberg/lemina but attacking we’ve been awful against a very poor palace side missing their star player. Their midfielder’s almost own goal header was probably the only moment of the half. Really don’t have a clue why Hughes wants to play Shane long when you hav3 gallagher/gabbi who can’t make the squad and we have a poacher like Austin on the bench.

Agree regarding ref consistency regarding benteke dive vs last week.

Depressing lineup again. Only bright spot is that oppo are missing their best player. Gallagher makes strong impression off the bench midweek. Doesn't even make the bench whilst goal drought long continues to somehow start.