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Daily Palace - A Fiesty Crossover Between Daily Palace and Brighton
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As they do everyday Wale, Joe, Alex and Dan are discussing the latest goings on at the mighty Palace
In this Episode: Alex and Dan head to enemy territory over at Daily Brighton to back the Eagles ahead of Sunday's Premier League grudge match at the Amex.
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Introduction and Special Crossover
00:00:02
Speaker
Every club. Every day. The Global Sports Podcast Network. work Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton Podcast. I'm joined by the man himself, Blessings Chabamba, my co-host, my superstar. How are we, Bless? Yeah, good. Yeah, happy to be here with the Palace boys.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yeah, that you've spoiled my next part or my next line. We are here for our crossover episode with the Crystal Palace lads. Now, what a fearsome rivalry that we've got. We'll see if we can keep it above board and throw no low blows or no punches to the face and little jabs here and there.
Rivalry and Past Matches
00:00:46
Speaker
Boys, Alex, Dan, how you feeling?
00:00:49
Speaker
Yeah, well, good. Thanks, mate. Very excited about the yeah the upcoming clash on Sunday. We all wait all season for this, don't we? And um yeah, should be a tasty one. You guys have had a bit of a dip recently, so hopefully we can take advantage. Yeah, and Dan, how are you feeling for it?
00:01:07
Speaker
I'm doing all right so far. I'm definitely looking forward to the game on ah the weekend out of that ah nasty fixture list that we got for over Christmas. This is the one I was kind of focusing on way more than like the City or the two Arsenal ones. We've got the Derby game coming up. Everybody loves a good Derby game, even if you're not the most so prestigious in the world, it's still a Derby game.
00:01:29
Speaker
you Exactly. It's a Derby game that means a lot to us fans here. It's gone a couple of our head-to-heads in the past. ah Six wins for Brighton, six wins for Palace, nine draws overall and I think in the last six or seven there have been three, four oneals and I've got to just throw it in there. A 4-1 for Brighton at home, this exact fixture last season. Do you hope or wish or dream for a better game coming up?
00:02:06
Speaker
Either Alex or Dan. Yeah, absolutely mate. 4-1 defeat is ah yeah to your rivals. It's just so unthinkable really, but that was the the end of the Roy era. I think it was one of his last games and we're looking a bit more rosy now under Glazner.
00:02:22
Speaker
um So yeah, we're hoping that was a blip. But you mentioned there, obviously, like the one-all draws just seemed to be every game we played you as one-all for for a period, um which you just but you just want to win these games, don't you? I mean, one-all suits neither team, really, um especially you know, with you guys trying to get back up into the European places and us trying to pull away from the bottom. I don't think a point suits, but um yeah, I just i yeah at the Amex, I don't want to lose, but when it's at Celeste, I want to win. us Yeah, as simple as that. I'm sure you guys are the same as well.
00:02:58
Speaker
Yeah, you can't lose a rivalry game or a derby match in front of your home fans. That's like the most demoralizing, ah soul destroying defeat. ah Now you did mention the form. We are seventh, we've dropped off, we've plateaued a lot and maybe not even plateaued, just fallen off a rollercoaster, fallen off our cliff, of our form. Whereas you are slowly edging your way out of the relegation zone. I think there's four points between you and
Crystal Palace's Recent Form
00:03:30
Speaker
the drop zone. What has been the reason for your recent success in form or recent rise in form?
00:03:41
Speaker
I'm not sure if there's anything you can really sort of pin it on. I think just since the international break, we've just suddenly either sort of galvanized as a team a little bit more. We've organized ourselves a lot more in defense. We've sort of negated a lot of these very silly little passes and unforced errors that we've done. So it's just, and we've actually come out and being considerably less passive in the games instead of actually sort of letting the game come to us a little bit we've actually taken it to the teams who were playing against the opposition like the new castle game where we completely and utterly dominated it it across the entire stat board but somehow we still get a draw but it's that kind of little bits of
00:04:28
Speaker
bad luck that we're still getting, conceding a goal from somewhere or just sort of grinding out to a ah draw. Like with City, we went two up. We when took the lead twice and we conceded. So it's little things like that. But I think it's a lot more used to sort of galvanise the team a bit more. We know what is expected of each player. I think that's probably what you can put some kind of into it.
00:04:56
Speaker
But other than that, I can't really see much. It's still basically the same thing. Yeah. ah There's one thing. I mean, you you touched on it there. You guys love a draw. We love a draw. This whole fixture loves a draw. Bless. Are we about to see another draw?
00:05:16
Speaker
I really hope not. I think, yeah, we are desperate for three points after the little mini run we've just had. So I'm looking at this one at home. It's a good opportunity to get the fans back on side with ah ah a Derby win. Like we've alluded to, it everyone wants to win a Derby match. um But I do have a question for you guys as well, actually, just off the back of what ah Jamie asked as well.
00:05:42
Speaker
In terms of Glasgow, obviously, at the end of last season, you were really impressive, I felt, and you were in really good form. Do you feel like the honeymoon period of that is sort of over? Yeah, I'd agree. I think last season was like a massive um bit of an illusion, really. um we We were playing teams who ah had had long, long hard seasons like Newcastle at home. I think we beat 4-1. They'd obviously played a lot of Champions League went on a cup run, you know, they were knackered. I think we were playing teams, that obviously Man United, we beat them 4-0 at home and they were rubbish. And we just took advantage. And I think Glazner gave us such a lift after years of
00:06:29
Speaker
again, rubbish on the Roy, just that kind of terrible football. So I think it was a bit of an anonymous anomaly. um And the start of this season, teams have found us out like the high press, the intensity, but fair play to Glazner, he's he's dressed up. And I think against you guys on Sunday, it's going to probably be a bit more counterattacking. um You know, you guys will probably see more of the ball, maybe probably have played playing our half a bit. But, you know, we sort of dug in with this counter-attack and approach against City. um And we're probably more likely to see that on Sunday. But
Adapting to Player Changes
00:07:04
Speaker
yeah, it was a honeymoon period. It's a bit more reality now. But we're slowly building blocks again. And to be honest, in this situation, I'd rather have Glazna at the helm rather than Roy. So that's just a positive in itself, I'd say.
00:07:18
Speaker
Do you know one thing I will add there, and bless, you'll probably agree with me, but I feel like they're just MichaelAlyseFC. They were so reliant on MichaelAlyse, he's gone out the door, and this lot are crumbling. I mean, there's nothing better.
00:07:34
Speaker
as a Brighton fan to watch this demise of Crystal Palace. They go forward, and I'm confident they're not going to score. Jean-Philippe Mateta as well. He's had his little spell, his magic patch, and now he's, without Elise, not great. I mean, Elise, it was such a pivotal part of your team. 19 games in the prem last season, 10 goals, six assists. Are you really missing him that much?
00:08:01
Speaker
I wouldn't say we're missing it that much, but it's it's kind of of the way that Palace do things. We have one or two players that do 80% of the work. It's been a problem for many, many years, but ah a lot a lot of teams do that, have this one or two players that do most of it. um you hadn't so um Was it the Japanese superstar a couple of years ago, being your sort of helmsman and everything like that and when he started to lose form oh look what happened you started to lose form as well so uh you're not the only one that has a one-man army don't you dare talk about matoma like that he's still a star and he will never leave a door on i'm just saying as soon as his form starts to drip a couple of years ago are you at that when he's starting to go down
00:08:53
Speaker
yeah well yeah Alex, are you crying into your pillow every night wishing that Elise and Eze return together? that The partnership that formed Palace?
00:09:04
Speaker
I was, I'll be honest, I was in ah when Elisa left. I just, I wanted one season of Elisa and Eze Mateta doing bits up front. It didn't happen. So yeah, I was a bit upset to begin with, but you know what? we We figured it out now. We're back to more or less full strength. We haven't got many injuries. We've got a solid settled team. I think Mateta's I think he bagged a couple against you guys and in recent fixtures as well, if I remember rightly. So hopefully he'll come up trumps on. a He's a better Danny Welbeck, I'll put you that way. Oh, no, no, no. We can't be having that. Yeah, bless you. You are the advocate for Danny Welbeck on this podcast. Please respond. The day I see Mateta whipping in free kicks,
00:09:55
Speaker
could have a conversation, but even that day, I don't think I'll have it. yeah Exactly. Well, Bex actually added Ward Prowse-esque free kicks to his game. And on that note, we will go to a break and we will talk more about the upcoming fixture and also how teams have kicked off this Premier League campaign and done recently.
00:10:18
Speaker
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00:10:47
Speaker
And we are back with the Daily Brighton and
Analyzing Recent Performances
00:10:50
Speaker
Crystal Palace crossover. So, Dan, you did mention the amazing result you had last week. You drew two all, probably miraculously and probably to the surprise of many of your fans against Man City last week.
00:11:05
Speaker
I mean it wasn't quite a win. You can't always be Brighton you know. We managed to beat them 2-1 but that's that's besides the point. It was a good result for you guys. ah what What did you guys do well?
00:11:21
Speaker
I think the last time we did well, we just sort of worked that counter attack a lot better than we have done before. We've been very, as I mentioned earlier, very passive when it comes to games. We go one nil down and then the heads just drop and then nobody does anything. Or we had ones against Forrest where all we were doing were taking shots from 35 yards out, ah going sort of taking so the counter attack. There's only three people going forward and no midfield to support them or anything.
00:11:49
Speaker
against City, we actually went in for tackles. Like the first goal was a missed pass and miss parson a little bit of a tackle. Then and we got an absolutely Iniesta-style pass and took out the entire entire defense. So it's stuff like that. It's actually taking the game to the opposition instead of being sitting back and letting them dictate what goes on. So it that's where I think we've gotten a lot better at in the last couple of games.
00:12:19
Speaker
So, and getting a draw against the champions, especially after they absolutely demolished Forest a couple of days earlier, and yeah getting a goal in the first couple of minutes, my phone buzzed and I went, what was that? um up and or what I had to do a double take, it was an angle, we're 1-0 up against City. So.
00:12:41
Speaker
And I guess, yeah, Will Hughes, the magic man that he spoke about there, a brace of assists, if that's if that's some what you call it. Has he been your best player so far, Alex?
00:12:54
Speaker
Surprisingly, he has, yeah, he's started the season. He was probably a um squad player, to put it politely. um But we had a bit of an injury crisis in midfield and he's actually come out a bit of a star man from that. um And do you know what? For these derby games, he's someone you want in your team. Like he is just... He's a leader, he puts it about, he gets stuck in. The fans love him, a bit of a cult hero. um So yeah, he's going to be great on Sunday. He's going to be well up for it. um You guys probably haven't seen much of Will Hughes recently other than the kind of bright, bright, bright white hair. But um yeah, he is ah he has a good talent. um And yeah, he's going to be a ah key player for us, I reckon, on Sunday. And ah moving on to you, Bless, I guess. Will Hughes, their star boy,
00:13:42
Speaker
I mean, are we really that worried? We've got a plethora of Starboys, we've got Jau Pedro, we've got Ruta, we've got a Yarian Belieber that Dwarf will use in terms of stature and also ability. Bless, are you worried at all?
00:14:00
Speaker
Um, uh, whatever I say is going to sound very biased, but, um, yeah, as Alex has already said, I've not seen much of Will Hughes to be honest, but from what I can remember of what I've seen in the past, he's a very neat footballer and he is smart. But again, yeah, we've got our own, you know, danger, dangerous midfielders, our own midfielders to sort of watch out for. Um, and it'll be an interesting battle because I think our midfielders have done quite well recently. Um.
00:14:27
Speaker
I don't see believe I'm having an issue sort of matching Will Hughes in in any department to be honest. One thing I would, I'm going to come off my high horse a little bit and I will say we've been pretty poor as of late. So now ah our last performance wasn't too great. So we spoke about your last performance against City where you bottled a 2-0 lead. oh where it's it Ditto, we did the same. ah We did that against a much worse team in Leicester of all the teams to do it too. A team who are
00:15:09
Speaker
fighting for survival, to be honest. this is We just struggle against teams down the bottom of the league. Bless, do you envisage this being another issue? um Possibly. Again, it's a Derby game. It's an important game. So there are bragging rights on on the um the cards here. And Herzler is going to be aware of that. And he will be telling the players that that this is a really important game.
00:15:36
Speaker
um But I'm particularly interested actually, Dan, what do you think? Because a lot of teams we've found this season have been looking at Brighton as, you know, we might need to respect them a little bit, especially when we're at home. um But with our recent run, do you think Glazen is going to go for a different approach and maybe step on top of us like you did against Man City press a bit higher?
00:16:02
Speaker
Oh, I think he's going to be going for every single game because he did press conferences against the League Cup when we were playing QPR and things like that. And he's going, we're going to put out a full squad and we're going to go try and win every single game we possibly can, which I love that kind of attitude. So I would think he's definitely going to keep very much a similar system and try and just close you down as much as possible because we kind of play with kind of two defensive midfield most of our midfielders are very big strong and are going to be ah thought Basically there to get the ball off The attackers and things like that. We have three at the back which kind of move around quite a bit as well so um I think that's going to be very much to style and try and get the ball off you guys in the in the midfield or even it sort of on the 18-yard box kind of thing and try and get the ball out as quickly as possible to as a or um
00:16:59
Speaker
ah sa who seems to be getting in a nice bit of form as well. So ah that's going to probably be our system or gen our sort of number one sort of attacking option.
00:17:13
Speaker
It's actually, yeah, I mean, it's interesting you say that and yeah, all from what you said about Glazner last season and what he was on such a high with doing was that high press, the intensity. I think that is Brighton and hurt under Hertzler have really focused on playing out like every single game, every passage of play we try and play out. I think against, yeah, well, against Fulham last week, it didn't work out too well with the Bruggen passing it straight to a Wobi, which is decent. If he could not do that this week, that'd be good. ah And um also Eagle running it straight into the Leicester player for their 93rd minute goal. But other than those two times, well we have been pretty solid playing out from the back, but I just wonder if it will actually play on their minds, those mistakes, because it was just in the last two games. I don't know what you think about that, Bless. Yeah, definitely. i think
00:18:07
Speaker
um In terms of high profile mistakes, we've only made two. The rest of the time it's been okay. Sometimes obviously not as convincing when Adam Webster stepped in. but we have well He's
Strategizing for the Derby
00:18:20
Speaker
an anomaly. so He can stay far, far away from the pitch and we'll be happy. That's it. We haven't seen him since, but I am interested though. um I'm glad you spoke about building from the back. I'm interested whether or not Hertzer goes with back three, because obviously if Palace play that, you might want to sort of match up, match them up in terms of pressing, it might help us in that way. But again, if we do that, we haven't done that so many times a season that could be risky um in terms of how it affects our build up. Yeah, that's an interesting point. And we will be touching on that after this quick ad break.
00:18:59
Speaker
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00:19:29
Speaker
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00:19:33
Speaker
And we are back with the Daily Brighton and Crystal Palace crossover. Bless, you did a perfect little segue there and I'm gonna expand on that point. So Hertzler said against Southampton two weeks ago now or whenever we played them that they played a three at the back and in the first 60 minutes we found it hard and he said it was difficult to play play against a team that go man for man and build out from the back. So then he reverted to a back three.
00:20:06
Speaker
and then he against Fulham started with a back three because i guess we had dunk back and we had eagle back you guys have played a back three if i'm not mistaken the entire season so on bless his point i am interested to know if he does go with a back three which i think actually could be likely based on the comments that he made against Southampton another team that love playing a back three and another team that were just taking us man for man pressing us and just basically following every man up and down the pitch. I don't know whether that is something that you guys kind of see or you guys kind of do as well. But if it is, that's where I actually do see us playing 343, which is what Hertzler played at St. Pauli last season. So yeah, maybe Dan or Alex, you can explain whether you actually do just track your man, play a bit man's Southampton style and whether you do take man for man marking.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we do, to an extent, um when we're pressing in the final third, we do tend to go man for man. So like Eze will go towards his bloke and then Mateta will do the same and Will Hughes will ah put a shift in as he always does. um But yes, we we do that when we're pressing, but we do have a lot of zonal marking as well, especially from set pieces. And it is more when we're on the back foot,
00:21:29
Speaker
We'll play zonally, so we'll have, like, yeah, Tariq Mitchell and Munoz, our wing backs, we'll tuck into those positions and we'll play as, like, a back five. But then when we do have the ball, those guys will be more like wing backs. So it's quite a fluid system, um which, again, is credit to Glazner, like, and it's quite exciting to watch, even though we did, like you guys were saying, we make a lot of mistakes defensively, which some have come from that positional, um that zonal marking.
00:21:57
Speaker
um and Dan has touched on that and a few times this season in our podcast. He's not a big fan of it, I can tell you that. hippa yeah Obviously light our back three is very settled. We've got Gehi, La Croix and Chalaba, some really good defenders, but sometimes this zonal marking does Well, when they started first playing together, they got a bit confused about it and who was tracking who and that kind of thing. But we've we've tightened up on that recently and it does look a lot more balanced. So I think if you guys are going to change it, it could be to your detriment on Sunday, unfortunately. m Yeah. And that's where I, well, actually, I'll just ask you, Dan, how do you kind of see the game going?
00:22:41
Speaker
Oh, I'm expecting it to probably be very tight and very sort of tense too, because nobody wants to lose these Derby games. Palace, we're coming off of three or four undefeated in the since the international break, and I think you're sort of on three of the last four. You've either won or got some points off as well, so we're both on good form. We're trying to get out of a relegation sort of form, and ah you're trying to sort of knock on the door of the big guys. so quietly going about your business, really ah kind of not really. Nobody's really kind of paying that much attention to you at the moment. So you're just quietly doing what you need to do and sticking sort of just keep and keeping close to them, really. So I'm expecting this to be like every palace game. It's going to be fighting for every blade of grass and we're going to make it either difficult for you or difficult for ourselves. I'm not sure which which yet. So um so it's
00:23:37
Speaker
um I think it's definitely going to be very close because you guys are not ah you not massive scorers, but we're not brilliant defenders. so ah you should Well, that's one thing I would touch on what you said there. One thing I always think about Palace is like, and you just look at the team as well, and you watch them, like the highlights that they're in or whenever they're on TV. um And you do think they've got like a very workman,
00:24:06
Speaker
type mentality about them. So like your midfield, Loma and Hughes, must be the two midfielders or must be up there in terms of kilometres per match or however they decide whoever runs the most. um And then you've got obviously Mitchell who's defensively sound, you've got Munoz who's up and down that left wing, ah left wing back, full back, whatever position he, that whole left.
00:24:31
Speaker
uh all the time and then you yeah you've got the magic man in eze as like the little source to add to things so i always do look at what crystal pass and do think it's always a difficult game in terms of they will probably outrun you like i imagine you outrun most teams i could be wrong but i probably need to find that somewhere but yeah bless ah we'll go on to you how do you see the game going
Midfield and Defensive Challenges
00:25:00
Speaker
um I think, yeah, again, it would be a very, very cagey affair. I think you've alluded to it now of what I was going to say, to be honest. I think Palace seem to work really hard and always have to fight for their points. That's not a big idea, to be fair. um But I do think yeah overall, if you compare the two sides, I think we're the better footballing team. So I think if we do if we can get the ball on the floor and really play our stuff, I think we can
00:25:29
Speaker
um create a lot of chances against that back three. I think, yes, they're quite physical, but we we can definitely test them. If we can get past those wing backs and get Materma one-on-one with those centre backs, or Ruta and the other side one-on-one with those centre backs, I fancy creating a lot of chances.
00:25:48
Speaker
um The only thing I would worry about is the physicality in midfield, like you said. I think if the quarry is are available, I don't know if he might be injured. No, he's back now. Back in the field. I'm ready. Brilliant. It's borderline. I think he's got over a few minutes so or something like that. He's not going to be playing for the full 90.
00:26:13
Speaker
Yeah, so that's that's probably good news for us because I think, yeah, that's one player I can believe we might struggle to match physically. But apart from that, I think the other Palace midfield is, oh, maybe Lerm. I forgot about Lerm. Yeah, Lerm is another physical one. Yeah. um That battle in midfield would be key.
00:26:32
Speaker
Yeah, ah i one thing I do fear and I think you alluded, it you you two alluded to it right at the beginning of the podcast that, or actually I think it might be new Alex that said when you go to these places you're happy to leave your your rivals ground with a point or leave with a result.
00:26:51
Speaker
I think that is where the danger comes for us or potentially not danger but me and bless have said on so many reaction pods how disappointing we are at breaking low blocks and how much we struggle to score and I think yeah Dan you said we're not really a scoring threat kind of team which it does feel like that you watch us sometimes and we're infuriating in the attacking third especially when teams park the bus or don't really have to park the bus just defend well ah That's where I kind of feel. I feel like you guys could come there, be happy to concede possession, like you said earlier, out Alex, and then just try and make us break you down, and then just attack us with Ismael Asar's pace, Eze's creativity if he's still playing, and Mateta hold up play as well. And that's where I think the danger could lie for us, um but hopefully we'll have the
00:27:49
Speaker
the chances and the clinic the clinicalness which we didn't have against Fulham to actually put this game to bed. What's ah everyone's school predictions before we round it off? We'll start with you Alex.
00:28:05
Speaker
I'm going to put myself on the chopping block here and go 2-1 Palace. I can't knock on your pod and go for a draw or a defeat. So, ah yeah, 2-1 Palace. I reckon you guys will score first, but we might um claw back and then we might see
Predictions and Banter
00:28:20
Speaker
a Ben Teke 96 minute volley situation again, hopefully. A late, late, a late, late winner. That would be actually heartbreaking. So let's hope that doesn't happen. Bless your rebuttal.
00:28:34
Speaker
ah I'm going to go for a 2-0, Dominate Brighton performance with Dominate the ball. I say this every week, but Danny Welbeck goal and knee slide. And away from Mateta when he gets on the bus.
00:28:47
Speaker
okay yeah And away to Alex for saying Mateta's better than him. Crazy. Oh, we invite Alex back on the reaction podcast. We win. Yeah, go i'm just I'm going on holiday next week, guys. I won't be around. If we lose, that is. If we win, I'm from saying it.
00:29:06
Speaker
he And Dan, your your score prediction? I'm going to have to go with Alex as well. And so I'll say go 2-1. And ah I think it's going to be really, really late scoring, like sort of the 70th, 80th minute. It's just going to be really, probably really scrappy or a counter attack goal that comes out of absolutely nowhere. So and that's my sort of kind of predictions, the same kind of the way that we play. So that's where I'm kind of going for this. So we want to.
00:29:39
Speaker
And I will say, I reckon it will be, I'm just gonna jump on the blessed bandwagon, I'm gonna also say 2-0, I'm gonna say Van Hecke pockets Mateta like he's nothing, like the little boy he is, and Van Hecke's been doing that with every opponent that he's faced.
00:29:58
Speaker
believer a thunderbolt into the top corner in front of the palace fans giving it all that and then that man Danny Wilbeck to score the winner the cherry on the cake you know and like bless said see you later palace i thought you're gonna be more humble ah Oh yeah, it didn't last long. I said that, didn't I? I said me being humble and me actually saying we might struggle here won't last long because I'm back on the bandwagon for our fans. I'm
Conclusion and Farewell
00:30:30
Speaker
predicting us to win. Easy performance, 60% possession, 14 more shots in the opposition. Oh, easy, easy. We're going to control the game.
00:30:43
Speaker
And on that note, guys, it's been a pleasure speaking to you. I would say all the best for Sunday, but we all know that would be a lie. Bless my speaking to you again. Dan, Alex, lovely having you on. And from us at GSPN, that's over and out.