Carroll happy to be part of Slav’s headache

Payet’s amazing goal from a 30 yard set piece has been the talk of football since the Manchester United game and the striker said: “I think he has done four or five free-kicks now and he’s just incredible. He told www.whufc.com: “After going one up, we felt like in the end we could have held out. Obviously they went up and put the pressure on and got the equaliser.”Carroll has contented himself with the result but was unhappy that his effort from an Aaron Cresswell cross was off target saying: “I could have done a little bit better with it but at the end of the day I’m happy with the draw.”

And he is delighted at the competition for places adding: “I’ve been working hard. I’ve been coming off the bench and it’s been hard not starting when I want to be but I was in and I think I got about 80 minutes, so it was great.