Wilfred Ndidi

Besiktas 2, Crystal Palace 2.

Wilfred Ndidi, Premier League legend, put Besiktas ahead just before halftime.

Jeremy Pino and Jean-Philippe Mateta scored 2-5 minutes to put Palace ahead.

Junior Alayton scored on 73 to make it 2-2.

I mentioned before, consider two goals.

I thought Ndidi goal again, he can do better, I think.

And then the second goal.

which I'll break down quickly.

But I thought he was poor for the first goal.

I haven't really been convinced that Canvo or Richards or Ty, in terms of their move to try and cover that being the main issue, I just don't think he needs to get that close to Ode.

And if he is, there needs to be more communication in terms of who it is that you know, Canvo, you know, ends up tracking Indeedy, you know, Ty slides in a little bit, and then the guy who would have been on, you know, our far left defensively, their far right, we leave him, and then we try and deal with that bit after.

But I don't know, I just think it's four from him.

Besiktas had offered very little.

We had been the team in the ascendancy and they went in 1-0 up through Wilfred Ndidi, formerly of Leicester City.

And there has been a lot of discourse online about this goal because Axel de Zazie pushes up into midfield he follows his man he follows O into midfield and that leaves a gap in behind and Wilfred Ndidi runs into that gap and you have to say his touch and his finish were absolutely outstanding but it was just far too easy from a Palace perspective and you can blame De Sassi for pushing into midfield he didn't need to do that right on half time or You could blame someone like JD Cambo, who is watching this whole thing play out, and he reacts far too late to the oncoming run from Wilfred Ndidi.

Now, when you've got three at the back, if your central centre-back goes with his man into midfield, you've still got the other two covering.

and quite simply they didn't do that indeed he managed to run in behind as I said his touch and finish were excellent but it just felt like another really avoidable goal to concede and it felt like another real blow for Pierre Sarge and this team because they played really well in the first half they coped with the atmosphere really well and yet they went in 1-0 down but their response at the start of the second half was fantastic they took it up a notch in that second half there was a penalty shout Dwight McNeil went down under a challenge from the Besiktas player I can see why this one wasn't given but minutes later we managed to equalize through Jeremy Pino This goal was initially ruled out for offside, but it was given thanks to the VAR.

He was just excellent.

Absolutely tormented there back to, made Ndidi look silly, which, that's not a foul, is it?

The one where he pulls it, they're pulling each other and it's just unluckily.

It's just his shirt

It would take us two minutes.

We'll just keep on changing who's at the top, and I think I'm at the top now, so...

Yeah, no, I think I said Ndidi and who scored their second? I said him.

You would have known if you remembered the name.

He was causing all sorts of problems.

You'll probably see on social media there's memes of him pulling Ndidi's shirt over his head, which is absolutely hilarious.

Oh, I had to see that.

He's such a nuisance.

We were very open again in the defence for their goal.

Straight ball down through Ndidi.

He takes it, puts it in the bottom corner.

That's the story of our year so far.

And I think there was a hope that Palace would get battered.

Well, I can tell you right now that Palace are currently trailing 1-0 at Besiktas with Wilfred Ndidi, formerly of Leicester City, giving the Turkish side the lead just before half-time.

And let me get back to the scores.

I'm sorry about that.