Mazzy

Next three are absolutely critical. I think we actually need to win all of them to be in with a shout at the end of the season. After the next three it gets much much tougher.

Match cam....

Extremely good win that is. Nicely set up for the next one.

Villa are going to have their January business to thank if they finish top 5 this season.

They do and then they'll add another minute or two on just for the thrill of it.

Pope redeemed.

Probably not Høijlund in fairness to him.

I absolutely agree. But taking the one game at a time approach, I'm happy to see whichever team is closest to us on points at the time lose.

They were level on points with us before this game weren't they? I know it's against Villa, but the more sides around us lose, even against other sides around us the better it is.

Well Wilson doesn't drop as deep as Isak for a start nor does he drift out wide. Plus Willock coming on at the same time could well see a move to 442, with Barnes moving up alongside Wilson.

Isak off. Not sure about that. Hopefully not precautionary and just tactical.

Really need to get back into this now. Bournemouth and Brighton both losing. Need to take advantage.

Damn.

Takes a lot away from their midfield though. He's not exactly going to be helping their defence. Much trickier for our defenders now though.

Fuck yeah!

Was everyone expecting this to be an easy game or something? I think it's going alright, we've had good chances, we've limited them in attacking areas and it's not even HT yet. Plenty still to come. Shame about the bench options though. Perhaps Willock could shake this up a little in the second half.

Half hour gone and the stats suggest we're heavily on top. Doesn't really feel that way though.

That's what Brentford defenders were saying before KO.

Southampton one up now. Would love to see Palace get beat by them!

Needed to make one of the chances count in the first 15 minutes! Momentum swings so quicky when it's 0-0.

Tino going for it tonight. Out to prove Tuchel wrong.

Tbf that's what you'd assume if you only looked at SkySports, BBC and mainstream media.

Two minutes in and we're already on 0.41XG.

Let's have a good start. Get on the front foot and excite the crowd from the off.

Sky is paid by sponsors and customers. The Premier League with their own service, would be paid by sponsors and customers. No difference and in fact because ALL or at least a considerably larger amount of games would be shown then you could negotiate much larger fees from sponsors.