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Wolves' remaining fixtures look tough so they may not pick up another point, which means if we win 2 of our remaining games, we could finish as high as 12th. Spurs A Everton A Man United H

When it was announced that Ings was in the starting lineup again, we knew we were going to score. The question was whether our defence could hold up and thanks to Forster it did. His penalty save was the turning point. We are 14th but we should now aim to finish 12th, which would seem like a reasonable end to the season. My favourite May home game v Palace is still the 6-0 in 1971 (1970-71 being one of my all-time favourite Saints' seasons) but tonight's win is up there as a cause for optimism for next season.

Three ex-Saints battling it out at the top: !st Jose Fonte's Lille 2nd Pochettino's PSG 3rd Paul Mitchell's Monaco With only 2 games left to play, it looks likely that Fonte will lead his team to the title with the best defensive record in Europe and pick up his third major trophy. French Ligue 1 Table - Football - BBC Spor

The accident has already happened when he played Mane onside for their goal. He just plods around in his own ego-driven world totally disinterested in what the rest of the team are trying to do. The sooner he goes to Spurs, the better.

With Mr Plod Vestergaard playing in our defence? Really ?

The big dummy, Vestergaard, played Mane onside. He has no team awareness. He just plods around in his own world.

Is our defence better with or without Vestergaard? In the 11 Premier League & FA Cup games he has missed this season, we have kept 6 clean sheets. Looking back, most of our best defensive performances, like the 1-0 wins v Man City and Spurs and the 2-0 win v Chelsea last season and the 1-0 wins v Liverpool and Arsenal this season, have been when he hasn't played. The players seem to cover each other better and show more team spirit when he's not there.

Just spend the money on bringing in some of the best referees from abroad, the same as we do with players.

The same referees, with their established prejudices, are on VAR too. To be fair, it's difficult to find anyone in this country with an interest in football who doesn't have favourite teams as well as teams they don't like. The old referees like Dean and Moss, who have been there for decades, have built up their prejudices over many years. If it's a decision that might favour a big team, they will take several minutes examining it on VAR but when it comes to us, they barely give it a second glance. and that was what happened when Moss was required to consider Vestergaard's red card. We have foreign players so why not foreign referees? That might help solve the problem.

Remarkable statistic: Palace remain unbeaten in their last 24 Premier League games when leading at half-time. Are Leicester good enough to end that run?

He has been about our only defender who can actually defend, which is why teams now concentrate their attacks on our right flank.

It's not going to happen.

If it even gets off the ground, it will go the same way as Kerry Packer's cricket circus. The only question would be whether it would last 1 year or 2. The teams stupid enough to enter it would be heading for a big fall.

I went to watch Saints at Anfield 50 years ago and they were lobbing bricks at us even then. There was a narrow alleyway with high walls on the walk from the station and the local youths hid behind it and lobbed house bricks over the walls as you walked through.

Our defensive midfielders always are underappreciated by many of our fans. Wanyama, Reed and Hojbjerg were too. The transitional midfielders like Schneiderlin and Diallo tend to get more praise.

The bottom line is we only have one effective defensive midfielder in our squad, Romeu, and he's out injured. Both Diallo and Ward-Prowse would be fine if they had him alongside them. Could we buy another one? Defensive midfield is not the most glamorous of positions and they don't command big transfer fees as Spurs discovered when they bought Hojbjerg. Right now we could do with someone like Harrison Reed.

It looks like Hampshire will be top of the table after the opening matches, as they should go on and win this and they'll be the only team with maximum batting bonus points.

That's impressive. He hits the ball hard, usually gets it on target and some of his goals are quite spectacular. He's certainly a better finisher than Shane Long.

He's been brilliant so far tonight. That run to set up the 3rd goal, where he had 5 Wolves players all trying to stop him, reminded me of Channon at his absolute best about 50 years ago. Lingard's goals and assists could well clinch West Ham a Champions League place.

We could have scored 2 or 3 more goals in the last ten minutes. 4-2 or 5-2 would have been a fairer reflection of the game. Pope and the woodwork kept the scoreline down.

What a superb comeback that was. We've now done the double over a Burnley side that has been a bogey team for us in recent years, and Ings, who's back to his best, scored in both games. I'm looking forward to us finishing the season strongly with many more Ings goals.

Just watched dirty, cheating Leicester lose to Man City. They really are the worst team in the league for utilising the full array of 'dark arts'. It must be part of their training. What an obnoxious character Maddison is. He's one of the worst culprits. I want us to beat them even more now but we're going to need a very good refereee to avoid getting injuries and red cards.

Yes, but he nearly always hits it hard and gets it between the posts.

Adams is a great finisher. He doesn't often miss the target.

Is he a Pompey fan? All of his posts seem to be anti-Saints.