Axel Disasi

He's come in to a team that have sold their best players consistently over the last year.

It's a totally different side, and the players they've picked up are either unproven in the Premier League or for someone like Axel Disasi, didn't play at all for Chelsea last season, then played for West Ham in the second half of the campaign, but they went down.

So he's having to work as he goes, really learn on the fly.

You look at his record in France, he took a long time to become a head coach, but once he did, Lyon were very good, Lens were very good.

... every single week having the anxiety of, "I don't even know if this player's gonna play," I can't be bothered.

You don't fancy Disasi and Saliba?

I wouldn't be surprised.

I could just go Gabriel.

Scholz reacted instinctively, re- redirecting the ball beyond Benitez.

Axel Disasi's retreating position kept him on side, and it was three to one for Olympique Lyonnais.

A clever finish from the substitute and another example of Olympique Lyonnais capitalizing when Crystal Palace's defensive structure became vulnerable.

Crystal Palace were committing more players forward in search of an equalizer, and Lyon recognized the additional space and retored-- and restored their two-goal advantage.

And Crystal Palace have some defensive questions, some defensive injuries, defensive suspensions.

Disasi is still suspended.

Uh, their center-back situation is, is kind of Jefferson Lerma started at center-back in their, in their last league game, which is kinda all you need to know.

Also, I think that this is gonna be up and down a little bit.

Um, Sarr comes in for Kamada at right 10.

Um, Mingueza, his second start for the season for Kalili at right wing back, and then Disasi comes in for, um, Lerma with Richards going out to the right.

Uh, thoughts on the lineup?

I think it made sense.

I agreed.

I suspected Lerma would come out, and he did.

I didn't consider Disasi playing, 'cause I forgot that, you know, he's not suspended for these matches, and he'd be suspended on Sunday, so it made sense that he came back in.

And I thought playing Sarr, or starting Sarr, rather, made sense, because I thought considering the type of game it might be, you know, going away to Lyon, that there might be some space in behind.

And I think that is a big issue for them in terms of their wide center backs.

You saw Disasi get, I think it was Disasi, get dragged into a wide area, um, to defend, and their wing backs will get caught really, really high up the pitch.

So how can you deal with that? How can you expose that? Um, I think they are gonna wanna sit deep, and I don't think we've been as good as ever as we are now at keeping the ball, at keeping the ball in tight areas, retaining the ball.

The profiles we have, we spoke about Malo Gusto and Cheick Mamardashvili is another one as well-