Tomas Soucek spoke for the squad after yesterday’s draw against Palace and wasn’t slow in expressing his disappointment at the result.
Like the rest of us he felt the team left two points on the pitch as they headed off into the international break.
Certainly this was not the same sort of performance as had seen off Newcastle at St James’ Park or Leicester at the London Stadium.
But it means the club is so far unbeaten since pre-season and remain top of the league so there can be few complaints despite the disappointment.
Goals are not exactly in short supply but surprisingly Soucek – who managed 11 goals last term is still to find the net.
He may not have been at his best as a result of a limited summer break having played a lot of PL and international football over the last ew months.
Commenting after the game he said: “We’re disappointed because we wanted three points. We got the draw, but I think we didn’t show our quality on the pitch like we should. Twice we were winning and we should manage the game better than we did.
“Now we have seven points from three games – it’s very good and an achievement for us, but when we had six points from the first two, we wanted to make it nine.
“We have scored ten goals in three games, which is very good. On the other side we have conceded five goals, which is too much for us.
“We wanted a clean sheet today, but Palace got two goals, so we need to prepare our defending for the next game.
“It’s still good, we’re unbeaten so it’s a good start.”
Souček has enjoyed the experience of playing in front of a full London Stadium for the first time in 18 months this week, and says the players really felt the support of the Claret & Blue Army.
He added: “The atmosphere is incredible, I really like the anthem of the Club, Bubbles, when we go onto the pitch.
“During the game I heard them and when we conceded a goal they supported us more and more. They’ve really helped us in these two games and I hope we can give it back to them on the pitch.”
He scored against Newcastle!