Crystal Palace scraped through to the Carabao Cup fourth round on Tuesday, beating QPR 2-1.
The woes of Oliver Glasner continued on Tuesday night as, despite victory, the performance against Championship opposition was poor.
Eddie Nketiah opened the scoring with a great finish after Eberechi Eze set him up. This was his first goal for the club, days after his debut.
After QPR equalised, Eze then scored from range, re-establishing the advantage – although Glasner still had a panic toward the end of the game.
In the game, there were some bad performances but one man really struggled.
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Fans react to Daichi Kamada display
Daichi Kamada started the Carabao Cup game for Crystal Palace alongside Jefferson Lerma and despite the Eagles winning, it was far from an impressive display from the Japanese international.
After his sub-par midfield display, one fan account on X wrote: “How many different scenarios and positions does Kamada get to play in before we all accept that he’s just not very good”
While another had one hope from the game: “Hopefully that ends the Kamada double pivot for good”.
“Kamada cannot play centre-midfield”, wrote another quite simply.
This fan had slightly kinder words: “Actually thought Kamada was decent-ish in attacking midfield role for the first time this season. Dreadful at defensive midfield though”.
One fan raised an important point: “People seem too eager to pile on Kamada. I didn’t think he was too bad last night but it’s obvious he’s not a centre mid. He needs to play higher up the pitch.”
How Crystal Palace should line-up against Manchester United
Amid such bad form, this Saturday sees Crystal Palace welcome an in-form Manchester United squad to Selhurst Park.
This is a concern and means Glasner needs to get his team selection spot on.
This means starting Kamada in the pivot is probably not the way to go.
Kamada is far better in attacking areas of the pitch and so this Saturday, dropping Jean-Philippe Mateta could be the move the Eagles need to make.
Nketiah up top with Eze on the left and either Kamada or Ismaila Sarr on the right would be a dangerous front three – far more organised than we saw against QPR.
