Beren

If it's borderline they'll never give a pen. You have to be comfortably 2 metres in for it to be a pen with refs. Way it is. Applied fairly consistently though so, no complaints from me personally.

Hope we keep a clean sheet. Enrique and Williamson, especially, deserve it.

Oh, Kasper......

So badly want an AC hat-trick.

Yeah small downer on the day, that. I'm not there so I can't say jack tbf!

Warnock: I've just been raped.

2 goals and an assist for Carroll

Beauty!! Go for the hat-trick son!!

4-0!!!!!

Stamped on the very edge of his toe. Harsh.

Yes. As much as the first oddly

No shit. He's no Carroll but I guess he's okay.

To answer my own question, they're not great individual players but they've been playing together with the team for a long time and I'd be surprised if we'd have the same understanding, movement and fluency if you just replaced them with better players straight away. I'm very surprised we're still able to move the ball about as slick as we do. So, I suppose I do see the merit. Not entirely sure I agree with it going forward in the future, but after a mere half of football I'm kneejerkingly willing to eat humble pie and admit that there is at least one reason why they might deserve a starting berth.

Shows how far we've fallen. I've seen us hammer Villa umpteen times at SJP. Yeah, just before kick-off I had a moment of reflection and realised I was nervous about facing Villa at home. Unthinkable thought not that long ago.

Makes such a difference when you're assured on the ball. This will only serve to increase our confidence. Highly impressed with the composure in defence. Clearing when they need to but authoritative on the ball. As if it needed saying, excellent half and all the credit to the players and Hughton.

I hope we don't try and shut up shop. If they're worried about conceding a fourth they're likely to commit less men forward.

Flipping heck, Carroll has turned into a beast. I thought he just looked like Drogba when up against Championship players... but this is insane! [/let me get carried away, you cynical bastards]

Championship was harder than this

LOL! This is awesome, and funny for some reason.

Beautiful composure by everyone. Great cross, great cushion header, good persistence by Nolan!

YEEEES MATE!!!

Not doing very well at this offside trap business!

Quality!!

It's so frustrating, I just don't know what a professional manager can see Smith and Nolan offering to that line-up.