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Wish people would stop making it seem that getting to the league cup semi final is some sort of miraculous achievement by Puel, when the reality is we beat a **** poor Palace side, needed a worldly by Boufal to beat an awful Sunderland, and beat a seriously weakened Arsenal, honestly look at their line up and subs for that match, it was borderline reserve team. 3 games to get to the semis, that's it. Now however we have a serious test against the same team that tore us a new one in this competition last year, and I don't see the result being much different.

Each to their own of course, but to suggest Lallana couldn't shoot is moronic. He scored some brilliant goals for us in all manner of positions.

Need to give him a whole season before we can judge, what I will say however is watching us this season has been incredibly tedious at times, and I'm worried that the team is as unfit as it has been for a few years now. We looked absolutely shattered after pressing Spurs for 20 minutes, considering we've had a 10 day break that's pretty worrying.

Shame the Saints fans were off camera, would loved to have seen how mental the away end went when the 3rd went in.

Beyond chuffed for J-Rod after that game. You just felt that if a goal could go in off his ass that he'd have the confidence to do something like that. This performance has set a benchmark, we know we can play that well as a team and we need to find that level of consistency more often.

Yessssssssss!!!!! What a goal J-ROD!!!!!

Giving stupid fouls away and letting them come at us, need that third goal to kill this.

Speak for yourself, our fans have known he is quality for years now, he's just been having an inconsistent spell lately.

Yes J-ROD!!!!!

Discussing that Tedmond chance on Sky, really should be 2-1 to us.

great defending, useless ****

Can't see much truth in this, we're hugely stocked in midfield with any of the following to choose from: Davis Hojbjerg Romeu Ward-Prowse Tadic Boufal Sims Reed Clasie Plus the option to push McQueen up on the wing as shown a couple of times.

We'd be better off playing Virgil up top with the current system we're using.

This is true, you'd like to think the numerical advantage would take its toll after so long.

70 minutes against 10 men, we HAVE to make that count.

Dirty ****, deserved red

Massive win that papers over the cracks for a few more days. Dreadful first half, better second half but boro offered nothing so it wasn't hard to improve on the first 45.

The way I'm feeling at the moment I would rather stay at home and pluck each individual hair out of my arse crack than go and watch the dull, insipid rubbish currently being played at St Mary's. Really can't call this one, on paper I'd say home win, but we look completely devoid of attacking threat and Boro can defend very well at times, we need to win this so very badly, but I wouldn't be surprised if Boro manage a result, and I f things don't go our way I expect the atmosphere to get quite nasty.

Utter **** tonight, but then you have to question the manager for playing our very much right footed player on the left wing. How he played the full match is beyond me, he really is the new Jermaine Wright. I'd much rather have had McQueen on the wing.

Each time it feels like we've turned a corner we serve up ****e like that. This was a poor poor Palace side we were going up against and we made them look a class above. Poor performances and bad tactics cost us massively today. Redmond is the new Jermaine Wright, JWP is back to his average best, and Fonte looks a shade of his usual self, he's having a laugh if he thinks he'll be getting that move to United. Thoroughly ****ed off now, sublime to ridiculous in 3 days FFS.

Embarrassment. One step forwards one step back for us at the moment, can't believe we've managed to lose to Hull and Palace.

Shambles

2-1 Chelsea, good finish by Willian

City should have been out of sight, can't believe Chelsea are back in this.

Palace are having a shocker at the moment, I'll be extremely disappointed and ****ed off if we don't get a point at the very minimum from this. A convincing win for us would probably spell the end of Pardew.