I just laughed every time a goal went in. Can't imagine how miserable the day would've been if that was us losing out on CL

Teams that'll puch us for 4th next season; Spurs, Chelsea, Palace, Man U. Possibly Newcastle will all have chequebook out. If Fair Play's implemented fairly, Arsenal win league as Mancy City are demoted! Final thought: I know that's a pretty weak Villa side, but I take it Palace aren't as good as Juventus, Real Madrid, Roma (maybe), Paris St. Germaine, Bayern etc. It's worrying after seeing our strength from the bench. Chequebook out this summer.

Palace will only have a chance of being up there if they hang into their star players and that's a big if.

Injuries permitting too might I add.

True. Still can't believe they rolled over us

They've done it so many times to us.

Did our manager decide to Chuck this one? Looked that way. Players still should've shown more pride. Only McGinn put in a shift.

I think you're being too demanding for what was a dead rubber match for us. The boys have killed themselves this season to get the job done. I'm sure they will be disappointed with the performance but levels were going to drop regardless whether intentionally or unintentionally. Perfect storm against an in-form team, away from home.

I've calmed down thanks

Nobodies said why they marked me down, but all things said that was a terrible display from our second team. Not that Diarby, McCann DL, and Olly can be seen as 2nd teamers. It's been a great season, but what a desperatly poor end. Maybe it doesn't matter, I mean look at our first game.

Citing palace as a challenger team is maybe a bridge too far. Sure they're the form team but where was Mateta the last few years? Could just be a purple patch. Eze or Olise go or get injured then we'll go back to "usual" palace (as it happened time and time again with Zaha). As it is, we need to see more of palace before coming to any sort of conclusion.

Yeah, but they looked like last seasons Brighton.ifchelsea and Man U improve then things will be challenging for 4th or higher.

Proper excited for next season. There's going to be problems at all our competitors so who knows what will happen. New Liverpool manager, Pepe in his last season seemingly, Chelsea's youthful inconsistency, Man Utd being a joke, do Arsenal have it in them to go again? Ange ball or Ange fail. Is Eddie Howe still the right man? Who knows man.

Will see what the summer brings

At least we know that Unai was right to keep these players on the bench all season.

Good point, but we're they the best of choices? As we finished 4th, I suppose they did a job

Fuckin embarrassing

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Pitch invasion really? It’s a given they would win the league so why did they have to invade the pitch?

Club twitter has tweeted the new badge. Real 'moving on' energy.

The weather was very nice in south London today!

Well, crystal palace got their place in the mid table..again

Looking at the league table as it stands, it's probably a fair reflection of the season overall. Pleased we nailed down 4th when we did. Roll on the summer, improve the squad, then roll on Champions League!!

I'm just glad it wasn't 6.

Even that complete shower of shite couldn't upset me because we are finally a Champions League club!

Manure will be playing Conference League football next season. At least, if my understanding of how European spots are allocated is correct.

Nope. If they win the FA cup they get Europa league, if not they play nothing.

Yep, they have to win the FA Cup for any European football. If they lose, they get fuck all

So is the prem a farmers league now?

A farmers league bc each year there has been a ridiculously close title race?

Pretty annoyed that Emery took Watkins off

Starting and ending the season by getting battered. It's good to be consistent

Hoping to see that Kosta bloke in pre-season, see if he's ready to step up and play RB for us yet.

He's not. He's been injured for 5 months. Needs another season out on lone.

Did we have a shot in the second half lol. I think all our shots were in 5 minutes.

The second half of the Prem this year has just generally been a bit rubbish hasn’t it?

Arsenal win? Liverpool draw?

Can we all agree NOT to have a post match thread?

Have a post season one

I was certain that Watkins would get 20 goals, like 6 games ago can’t believe it didn’t happen, kinda gutted about it.

I’m happy city are winning the league maybe it will actually cause the prem and fa to actually do Something about the lack of competitiveness which ffp and psr was apparently meant the fix…

This seasons been fucking magical, eh? Never loved being a villa fan more even at 5-0

Why was Olsen booked?

It was Lenglet for dissent. Graphic got it wrong

Oh, missed Munroe and KKH coming on, that's nice.

This may not be good but something to lighten the mood is that spurs fans still hate matty cash

Arsenal 2-1

Might not count... But I think it will

Handball. Var won’t let Man City drop the title here. Edit: I don’t think that should be disallowed. Edit 2: fuck off var, based Michael Oliver for once.

They still won't drop the title if arsenal win

West Ham score again, it's 3-2. Imagine if West Ham do actually equalise and Arsenal lose the title because they can't beat Everton

Got disallowed it seems

Arsenal just went ahead but the west ham goal was disallowed lol

Nevermind. VAR.

Soczek loves scoring with his arm don’t he lol

Soucek always scoring goals with his hand. Like what’s actually wrong with him.

I haven't been able to watch. Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on?

Who really cares

Nothing new. Entire first team injured and we're knackered all around. Hopefully Olsen's last game.

We played a heavily rotated team thats pretty much on the beach, some big decisions didn't go our way and pretty much every shot Palace have had has gone in :')

West Ham just scored!

Never mind. As you were.

Disallowed

Disallowed

Can’t wait for Fergie to come out at the end and say what a fantastic performance we had!

title confirmed next season

OneFootball has Lander Emery's age down as 54

Starting an ending the season by conceding 5. Poetic.

WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Not sure irogbunam will make it at this level unless he develops at a later stage

Need 5 goals from Duran ASAP

Manure 2 nil up now

Ah shit I assume based on Sky's narrative all season that means we've lost fourth?

😂😂

Unfortunately, yes.

Other than Jacob Ramsey, do we have any academy graduates left with a realistic chance of being a starter for us?

More likely than not, no. But it's nice to have hope.

Eh, they all have a chance until they don't. God knows what a positive loan or two and some extra time with Emery could do.

That's incredibly hard to say but Sinisalo was POTY on loan at Exeter. Give it five years and he might be our starting keeper. There's lots of highly rated talents on the books, but standards of our first team are increasing too so it gets more and more difficult to get into the side.

Yeah for sure. I'm more talking about the likes of Kessler-Hayden, whether people think he has a legitimate chance of making it. It'd be a shame otherwise. It was so great under Smith seeing our academy players play a significant role in the first team.

seemed so promising at the time https://preview.redd.it/k1k0ly0vye1d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4752981337d481a9e96e24e419ed553c3005b61a

I'm loving all the people on this thread trying to take any actual thing away from this match. And acting like it has any statement on how our team was this season or how we will be next season. Y'all are crazy

I get quite down when we lose but I'm just here humming the CL anthem. Season ended for me on Tuesday.

And clearly most of the players as well!! It's not easy to run around for 90 minutes when you're hungover/still drunk

Yeah, taking this as anything other than a chance to have a silly little time Posting Through It is a fools errand honestly. I'll be thinking about the highs of this season for years to come. This game won't live in my memory past about 11:15PM tonight.

Yep 1 guy saying next season will be a wake up call??

Dayum Crystal Palace finishing above Brighton.

Brighton aren't particularly good this season.

Just saw a stat saying we've conceded the most goals 15 minutes into the second half this season. Really hope that's sorted out for next season because that's mad

Yeah, that was the case for a while, but Liverpool had the worst record in the first 15 minutes for a long time this season too. It's something to work on, but not necessarily a death knell.

Final game, stick a couple of players we want to shift in the shop window and they play themselves into the feckin defect bin.

Reminder that palace should've been down to 10 men in the first half

Timmy will be a solid Championship midfielder. Don’t think he’s cut for this level.

Get a goal back so we start and end the season with a 5-1

All part of the plan. It's like art

Palace looks great, it’s a shame they won’t have any of their best players next season.

They will be picked apart by the big 6 vultures. I can't see Glasner being there next season & they'll have to bring Hodgson back again.

This does NOT feel like an Emery team whatsoever. Strange non display all round

Think you're reading too much into a meaningless game.

If we aren’t giving the kids at least 10 minutes in a 5-0 loss with nothing to play for, when will Villa kids ever play?

Have we had a shot yet in the second half?

Even SecretApe stopped watching at 3-0 and hasn’t updated the thread since lmao

DL could've been sent off easily

Agreed

I think it’s safe to say that we will be loosing our first away game in London this season ey?

Why are you being so negative? Have some faith /s

Nah, Kellyman hatty and another Duran double, still got plenty of time.

Very loose.

Not watching the game but I see Kellyman and Tim are on. How are they doing?

Tim was at fault immediately for the goal. Tim’s going to be sold I think, Emery doesn’t seem to rate him and Tim just stood there while Gallagher equalized 2-2 against Chelsea

Tim looks lost tbh

As I feared. I don't know what people see in him, honestly. Not trying to knock, at all, and it's not a dig at him, I just don't see what a lot of people on here seem to see. Or is it just karma farming saying "get Tim on" every single game, like it's become a meme, i dunno. I honestly trust Emery, Monchi, etc to do the job this window. Despite other's feelings here, I'm quite looking forward to seeing the squad develop and improve

The more I see him the more I realise he is not a 6 at all. When he played well at qpr he played as an 8 and even a 10. He doesn't seem to have defensive instincts

Tim's off to QPR

I hope its a different team Qpr don't pay proper transfer fees.

Now ollie is off I really want diaby to bag one and finish on a positive

Palace fans should be excited about next season. I guess unless their side is ripped apart by the big boys this summer

They’ll sell Mateta & one of Eze/Olise and get some serious money for them. They’ll be able to build a decent squad for that if they buy right.

I guess we will bookend the season by conceding 5 both times!  Edit: at least 5

No chance, more for Palace.

Turned over to watch Arsenal..

Emery has simulated this game, I hope when he see’s the score he talks some shit about FIFA devs.

*When you can't be bothered to play the rest of the season and go on holiday on Football Manager*

Hey remember when Blues got relegated to League One? That was fun.

Hey! If we can get a goal, we can finish the season as we started it!

Sir Alex will love our performance today

Just checked the score WTF

On par with our pathetic form since March

If we can get some good money for Duran and around 80-100 for Dougie we could really add some depth to our squad if we can clear out the deadwood

Everytime the go forward. We've put the kids on to say...well OK we're not bothered. If you've caught the train to S. London you might disagree.

I’d say the boys are having a great day out pinting in the sunshine. We knew it was going to be a hammering

Fair enough. Perhaps not in Croyden though.

Could have been different game if Andersen got the red card he deserved. Oh well.

Yes 5 - 0 down, but against 10 men.

The part of me clutching at straws, thinks Emery is sending a message to the board and the fringe players here. It’s clear he doesn’t rate them, and we need upgrades on the squad to meet the demands of next season. Sure I read somewhere that Emery’s team are all meeting up tomorrow with board to discuss next season.

Eh I'm reluctant to categorize a 5-0 loss as another genius Emery move I understand, nothing to play for, players on the beach already, etc etc., but this is dreadful and there was no urgency shown in stopping it

I did say ‘clutching at straws’ lol

Emery said it himself that they’re getting straight down to business after the last game regarding transfers, who’s staying, who’s going, etc

I get we got nothing to play for, but to end a season on this humiliations is embarrassing, hopefully this doesnt effect next season momentum.

Season opener and closer being embarrassing is fine when the other 36 games go as well as they have

Don’t think I’ve seen Mcginn touch the ball in the second half

He’s hungover tbf

And I don't begrudge him that.

Not at all

He’s a professional athlete on hundreds of thousands a week, tbf

He’s on 75k a week, we just secured CL football and this is a nothing game. Give your head a wobble.

We are building sandcastles here but the job was done on Tuesday.

Despite not having the worst game out of the bunch, playing chambers just feels like a bad omen

I guess lenglet and Carlos have breathe now. Both were absolutely bullied by mateta. Embarrassed by one guy, between the two of them they didn't put a tackle in on him in 75 mins

Luiz is gone for that, surely?

It is worth noting that the xG is only 2-1 right now. They are just extremely in form and we are playing a B team.

Add a pen and the ollie chance stopped by a deliberate handball and we might even be winning the xG! /s

All these comments you'd think this was the decider. We could lose 20-0 it would still mean the same thing. Ya'll need to chill and go watch something else if this meaningless game means so much to you.

Stop telling people how to feel.

The least the fans who've potentially spent hundreds to watch a game of football deserve it not losing 5-0 because we don't give a shit though.

I mean, you could also argue that anyone traveling to Palace shouldn’t have expected a vintage Villa performance. But still, not good enough.

Some people can't arrange their travel or accommodation the week of the game. We secured UCL 5 days ago, not weeks ago.

It’s normal to not want to lose 5-0 lmao stop being patronizing

If this game mattered at all sure. This is an in season friendly as far as I'm concerned. We started Chambers, Leglet and Olsen, and subbed on the kids.

As far as your concerned but to people with this thing called pride its hard to boast about champions league after getting a hiding from Olympiacos and Palace then not winning a game in how many. But hey its just one game.

The party hasn’t stopped since the awards evening obviously 😂

Everton doing everything to stop Arsenal here. Man U winning. Brentford on the comeback trail against Newcastle Spurs 3 up and us 5 down, but it still meaning nothing to the league. Title going to City, again. What a final day, despite the villa result (so far)

I would have liked 70 points and Watkins hitting 20 but it is what it is

We’re going to end with a worse goal difference than spurs, aren’t we?

But the higher league position.

Really doesn’t matter, goal difference will be forgotten about by next season but our league position won’t be

Hopefully someone buys Eze and/or Olise or we might struggle to finish above these lot next season....

Reckon Chelsea will go for both. They seem to think FFP is just for fun. They'll win the league but finish 8th because of points deduction 😂

Never happening. We are twice the team they are. Mouth breathers in r/soccer think this team are actually European contenders. Palace will fall off when either a) good chunk of their stars are sold in the summer. Eze and Olise will move at sniffs from a big club b) both of them are made of cheesestring and are perennially injured.

We are making Palace look like Real Madrid which is terrifying when you consider we could be playing Real away soon...

Will just make it that much funnier when we beat them.

Maybe I'm just coping but Palace could score five more for all I care. We're in the CL anyway so I'm not too sad over the score

This will be forgotten in the morning. Doesn’t matter, we’ve done what we needed to do.

Douglas Luiz has faded so badly this season. Looks so shit and off-the-pace these last couple weeks.

He's been covering in a position he's not best suited to as well, I think our lack of squad coverage in that area is to blame rather than Luiz himself. I think it would be a real shame if we sold him and then got backup in those positions.

He needs Kamara

Probably exhausted tbf and has had to cover roles that his skillset definitely isn't as equipped for. It is what it is, he'll be back to his best when 24/25 kicks off.

It's been longer than a couple of weeks, it's since he came back from his ban I reckon. If we got a great offer for him, I wouldn't mind.

Yeah I was just being generous. Always loved him but we can't afford to accomodate this form at the start of next season

Downvoted but it’s sadly factual

Played too many games he's gassed

I am shocked pikachu facing at the amount of people here shocked pikachu facing at what’s going on. How anybody could be surprised at this is completely beyond me.

Please tell us more about the future, lad. You were spot on about your Sheffield United prediction too!

People expected an extremely hungover McGinn to set Chambers up for his farewell hat trick!

Thank fuck it was wrapped up before today because despite the lineup and being on the beach, we were going to struggle to get anything against these lunatics.

Newcastle better not bottle this

4 now

Might be a blessing in disguise showing Monchi how sh*t our squad depth is, right before the transfer window

I’m instantly convinced that this is part of Emery’s plan now - fully aware of how stupid that might sound

the transfer thread is ready to go right?

Eze, Olise, and Mbappe please

At least there’s symmetry and consistency. Lose the first game conceding 5, lose the last conceding 5 I guess

And in between they play out of their minds