Sheaf Saint

40/1 on Bet365 for the City win, in case anyone wants to place a late cheeky insurance bet.

Alvarez should have scored there. Actually it was nearly another OG from Salisu.

Cut him some slack for once. I know he isn't great, but even the best keepers in the world occasionally slice the ball out of play when they are under pressure.

Hmmmm.

Looks to be walking OK. Maybe it was always the plan to only play him for 60 mins and keep him fresh for Saturday.

Perraud and Elyounoussi coming on.

Joking aside, I have absolutely no idea why they aren't wearing their first kit anyway.

Is Lavia the real difference here? We were playing OK until he got injured in August and it all went to utter shit after that. Now he's back and fit again, all of a sudden we're making one of the best teams in the world look poor.

Arma trying to take on the entire City defence on his own!

Or Che's first Saints goal, against... Man City!

How is that not a foul FFS!? Right in front of the lino.

Where has this performance come from? Have we just been hustling the rest of the PL and making them think we're shit before unleashing our true selves and tearing it up?

We managed to raise our game enough to take two points off them last season. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Seems like Potter is as much out of his depth at Chelsea as Jones is at Saints.

Damn! You beat me to it!

It's nice to see us win a game for once, but...

It's the first time we've beaten anyone that isn't 2 divisions below us since October.

Wow. we beat someone. I had almost forgotten how this feels. I might treat myself to a celebratory cup of bovril!

That was quite a miraculous recovery from Ayew there.

It's nice to see us in the lead for a change, but there was a huge slice of long overdue luck about both goals, so I won't get too carried away. Yes we look 'better' this half, but we still haven't really created any decent chances of note and Palace still look the more likely to fashion a chance.

That will change on Wednesday.

Looked like that's what KWP was signalling when he came on.

Ha. Never saw this coming. Saints fans singing "How shit must you be... we're winning away!" Guaita having an absolute mare today.

Yeah my stream was a little behind and this post was actually referring to the previous one that was saved.