Rich

Absolutely dire this last 25 mins. Palace have sussed that it’s a decent idea to press high against a side with nobody to aim long balls at, can’t believe they started so passively and played right into our hands.

I think it's only Gamez left on the sidelines, right? Everyone was else was in the training pictures.

Dubravka Yedlin Lascelles Clark Dummett Diame Shelvey Murphy Atsu Kenedy Perez That's my guess, although feel like it's too few changes for Benitez after a midweek game. Might see Super Javier in for Yedlin and Ritchie in for Atsu, Darlow/Dubravka is basically 50/50.

Karl? Aye used to stomp buckets with him in various East Mids rec. parks. A nice guy. Agree he'll probably keep his place like, unless Benitez is feeling frisky.

Do you know Darlow?

Not a massive ask tbph It'll basically be one in two, which will be canny given our run in!

This lad to be top scorer come end of season.

Someone might have beaten me to it, but surely we could revive the Robert Lee song for this kid if he keeps it up.

Just think he's a bit out of his depth at this level - was prepared to let him off earlier in the season because of the amount of disruption there was at centre-back, but he's been in a settled pairing for a while now and is still struggling.

Well this is an unexpected surprise.

Hope he’s the difference. Most expensive player we’ve ever had?

He had a blinder at Hampden in front of 47,000 or so. Maybe the extra 5,000 will prove to be too much.

Happy with the team, bar feeling bad for Murphy. Hard to argue with anything else. Howay the lads!

Nah. Just a loan. Course.

If this keeper's coming in on loan and Mitrovic is off, then we're signing a striker for proper money. Aren't we?

This cannot really be happening, can it?

Bring me Kelechi.

Fair play lads, solid effort. Out of gas now.

Well that was fucking class.

Literally made 0 interceptions in that half Anyway, my feelings are now out there. He’s me scapegoat.

He was partly culpable like, he’ll be getting dug out on Monday morning for it. Not saying it was completely his fault of course.

He's not that bad man. Way over the top. The vast, vast majority of their openings were down to him in that half. Didn’t stop the cross for the goal, hides when we’re in possession (see when Atsu had it deep and he set off on a nice little run behind their winger) and doesn’t say a peep on the pitch. He’s piss poor, more or less everyone else did their jobs defensively there.

Can anyone show me a worse fullback than this cunt? Fucking hell.