| Eze in semi final team 16:14 - Apr 17 with 4272 views | QPRSteve |
Eze selected to play. Don't normally watch games involving the Scum, but might watch this. |  | | |  |
| Eze in semi final team on 16:21 - Apr 17 with 4149 views | colinallcars |
Let's hope the lad has a cracking game. A nice hat trick wouldn't go amiss. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 17:10 - Apr 17 with 4010 views | loftboy |
Havertz you cheating cûnt |  |
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| Eze in semi final team on 17:20 - Apr 17 with 3960 views | QPRSteve |
What a boring 45 minutes that was. | | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 17:53 - Apr 17 with 3840 views | KeithW |
Palace seem to have turned Eze into a defensive midfielder in the mould of Jeff Hendrick | | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:09 - Apr 17 with 3762 views | Petros |
Playing way too deep. So disappointing from palace, they haven’t really had a go. | | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:12 - Apr 17 with 3739 views | stevec |
SOMEBODY GIVE EZE THE BALL !!! |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:16 - Apr 17 with 3711 views | hertshoops |
Likewise forced myself to watch scum with a sunday afternoon beer hoping for Eze to tear them a new one
Sad to see how such an influential player for us is so starved of possession in this Palace team, game seems to be completely passing him by |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:18 - Apr 17 with 3694 views | Toast_R |
Eze hasn't been in it at all and that Midfield area is where Palace have come unstuck. Palace missed a sitter to get back in but overall Chelsea upped it a bit second half and Palace have had no answer. |  | | |
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| Eze in semi final team on 18:22 - Apr 17 with 3675 views | bosh67 |
He looks a bit rusty but he needs game time. Snd him back to us! :) [Post edited 17 Apr 2022 18:23]
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| Eze in semi final team on 18:27 - Apr 17 with 3646 views | stowmarketrange |
Another cup final I won’t be watching then. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:40 - Apr 17 with 3584 views | QPRSteve |
| Eze in semi final team on 18:27 - Apr 17 by stowmarketrange |
Another cup final I won’t be watching then. |
Same for me. | | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 19:54 - Apr 17 with 3399 views | kernowhoop |
In the first half, apart from a couple of bursts, he played mostly safe passes. More ambition in the second half. Also, his free kicks and corners were very good. | | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 19:58 - Apr 17 with 3383 views | Ned_Kennedys |
| Eze in semi final team on 17:10 - Apr 17 by loftboy |
Havertz you cheating cûnt |
Agreed.
Can’t stand him: he looks like a smug tvat as well. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 20:06 - Apr 17 with 3356 views | paulparker |
Eze was crap and Palace looked like QPR in the 86 milk cup
Dreadful game |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Eze in semi final team on 23:48 - Apr 17 with 3004 views | MrSheen |
Saw Celtic v Rangers in a pub in Edinburgh. Reasonably good humoured until it was really unpleasant. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 00:43 - Apr 18 with 2945 views | LazyFan |
Eze is told to play deep at Palarse, when he should be told to hug the penalty area. Then give him the ball and dare the oppo to tackle him.
Instead, he has to break from deep and beat 10 men to get near the penalty area. What a waste of talent. |  |
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| Eze in semi final team on 01:09 - Apr 18 with 2918 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
| Eze in semi final team on 00:43 - Apr 18 by LazyFan |
Eze is told to play deep at Palarse, when he should be told to hug the penalty area. Then give him the ball and dare the oppo to tackle him.
Instead, he has to break from deep and beat 10 men to get near the penalty area. What a waste of talent. |
This !!!! .Under Roy Hogson he was handcuffed then Saha was allowed to do what he liked with the ball (that did not include passing of course ) Eze really struggled then got injured.
Palace found a new player No 7 Olise who lit the place up and there went his spot.Also Gallagher played so well he was in every starting 11.
Playing Eze that deep is killing his natural ability and he looks way off the player he was and will never find that England call up again IMO.He has to move away this summer.
Chelsea played like rubbish but once they took the lead it was goodnight .Then they put on Kante, Lukaku, Silva to seal it .Not bad subs I would say. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 11:23 - Apr 18 with 2567 views | Northolt_Rs |
| Eze in semi final team on 01:09 - Apr 18 by CLAREMAN1995 |
This !!!! .Under Roy Hogson he was handcuffed then Saha was allowed to do what he liked with the ball (that did not include passing of course ) Eze really struggled then got injured.
Palace found a new player No 7 Olise who lit the place up and there went his spot.Also Gallagher played so well he was in every starting 11.
Playing Eze that deep is killing his natural ability and he looks way off the player he was and will never find that England call up again IMO.He has to move away this summer.
Chelsea played like rubbish but once they took the lead it was goodnight .Then they put on Kante, Lukaku, Silva to seal it .Not bad subs I would say. |
Apart from Lukaku who is total gash. It’s like paying £100m for Dykes. |  |
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| Eze in semi final team on 12:03 - Apr 18 with 2455 views | Antti_Heinola |
I thought Eze was good - almost everything they created was from him, his set pieces were superb and should have brought them a couple of goals. But agree, he needs to be higher up the pitch. |  |
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| Eze in semi final team on 12:55 - Apr 19 with 2038 views | GloryHunter |
Here's the text, if you can't read it. I think a lot of us must feel the same way.
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The Eberechi Eze effect: Why I felt absurd pride watching a man I've never met lose
Eze lit up four otherwise dreary years for my club QPR before his move to Crystal Palace and now I want nothing but success for him
Thom Gibbs
Senior Sports Writer
18 April 2022 - 10:24am
Thom Gibbs
Eberechi Eze looks crushed after defeat to Chelsea
Eberechi Eze looked crushed after defeat to Chelsea Credit: GETTY IMAGES
It is absurd to feel proud of your football team. We are wedded to them by an accident of birth, or perhaps an uninformed choice we made as a child. It is like being proud of having brown hair, or of Donatello being your favourite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
It is even odder to be proud of a former employee of your club, a transient presence sold for mutual expedience. Yet pride is what I felt, oceans of it, watching Ebere Eze play and lose in the FA Cup semi-final on Sunday.
I do not support Eze’s club Crystal Palace. I have never met him. Instead he is an old flame who lit up four otherwise dreary years for my Queens Park Rangers. Seeing him again at Wembley should have felt awkward, like running into the one who got away with their new partner. But in fact it was like witnessing your child thrive with a charming new group of friends at a Russell Group university.
Eze signed for QPR in 2016 after being released by Millwall. I watched him grow from optimistic substitute to the most talented player to pass through the club since it won the Championship in 2011. He has gorgeous technique with a ball, unflustered grace when running with it and god-like ‘tekkers’ made for social media.
Eberechi Eze in action for QPR in 2020
Eze in action for QPR in 2020 Credit: GETTY IMAGES
He left for Palace in 2020 with everyone’s best wishes. Selling him for a record fee was a sign of a more sensible future for my club, transfer market sanity where there had previously been wreckheaded mania. It helps that the stories you hear of Eze are inevitably from the genre of pitching in to help local charities without being asked.
Last year he seemed to be playing a similar role for his new club, a glimmer of light as the sun set on Roy Hodgson’s era. That light was extinguished with two games left when Eze suffered a bad Achilles injury in training. It was the sort of injury players recover from but are never quite the same afterwards.
Enter Patrick Vieira and a new dawn at Palace. Suddenly the whole team feels bright and lively as only Eze and Wilf Zaha had previously. The arrival and success of Michael Olise in particular means Eze, fit again, is fighting to regain a starting place.
Olise was unable to start at Wembley and the heartless killjoys who currently run Chelsea (Marina Granovskaia? Petr Cech? Priti Patel?) refused to let their loanee Conor Gallagher play for his temporary club. Eze was in from the start for the biggest game of his career.
He lacks Gallagher’s reckless energy, instead finding space effortlessly like Mesut Ozil at his best. He took set-pieces, including the corner which Cheickhou Kouyate might have scored from. He was persistently fouled by Mason Mount whenever he looked ready to get on the front foot. This was a backhanded compliment, one of the country’s best midfielders playing the role of limited clogger to counter Eze’s threat.
Eberechi Eze is challenged by Mason Mount
Eze is challenged by Mason Mount Credit: GETTY IMAGES
Eze’s decisions, calmness and ability to retain possession are the giveaways to his class. In heavy traffic towards the end of the first half he emerged from a trio of Chelsea players into a small clearing and found a pass to Zaha, despite being down on one knee at one point. Under pressure and drifting backwards just after half-time with panic possible, Eze instead dug out a calm ball into the air, a special delivery for Joel Ward down the flank which cut out the Chelsea press and put Palace on the ball 30 yards upfield. Howled at to shoot on 73 minutes as a clearance dropped to him like a welcome party invitation, Eze ignored the noise and played a simple but telling ball to the feet of Olise.
On this occasion Palace needed more from him. There is some way to go to prove he has regained his full range of tricks and by the closing stages he looked spent. This was the first time he had completed 90 minutes since a 3-2 win over Aston Villa on May 16 last year. As the game dribbled away he made a driving run forward at last, the sort of match-changing foray he nailed repeatedly in blue-and-white hoops. He went down, possibly fouled, but it was not given and he was out of puff to contribute to the hasty defence needed to stop Chelsea's counter-attack.
When the game finished Eze stood in the centre circle and spent some time taking in the noise and colour behind the goal, where Palace flags still flew with stubborn gaiety. He spent longer looking at the Chelsea end. The old technique, perhaps, of remembering the pain of victors celebrating your defeat to motivate you never to be in this position again. He looked crushed.
An occasional worry when supporting a team outside the elite is that your idols are average. This was certainly the impression while witnessing Adel Taarabt’s shocker for Benfica against Liverpool a couple of weeks ago. Despite a game without decisive interventions, it was not the sense with Eze here. It would not be a surprise if one day it is Palace fans watching him thrive with similar parental pride in the Champions League. |  | | |
| Eze in semi final team on 13:06 - Apr 19 with 1989 views | nix |
Thanks for posting that. Lovely article and totally sums up what I feel about Ebs. Real shame he isn't getting the chance at Palace to play in his right position. Maybe Gallagher won't be there next season and he'll get more game time. If not, I'd prefer he moves on. |  | | |
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