Slaven Bilic poured praise in all directions after a magnificent victory and dubbed the crowd as “brilliant” after a great victory over Palace.
The manager said: “”It was a very difficult game for us, a very difficult week. But the team showed everything we asked for – determination, character. The first half was nervous but the crowd were brilliant.
“Second half we made a change at half-time and we were magnificent. We gave everything, scored three really good goals and were compact and solid.
“I can only congratulate the boys, they were amazing. And I would like to thank the fans who were magnificent.
“Andy Carroll has got it but he was unlucky in training when he was trying it – he was hitting the post or whatever. With his history of injuries I go a bit crazy when he does that in training because you don’t want him to get hurt.”
He refused to be drawn any further on Payet saying: ” I said very openly what I said. It needed to be said and to be fair now I don’t want to talk about it. I can talk for ages about the guys who play, they deserved it.”
Super Slav
We aren’t out the woods by any stretch of the imagine. We need to do well in the transfer window and get our players back from the AFCON.
For me Bilic set us up wrong from the off but it was positive he made a change at half time. It would have been nice to start the game on the front foot. I think everyone can agree that Antonio is better further up the pitch and Carroll is better playing up top with someone. It isn’t rocket science and i just hope Bilic is learning.
Tad patronising
Lol Richie if it wasnt some form of rocket science we would all be good enough to manage in the prem instead of sitting on our scratchers in the stands 😂😂
Slav deserves the credit for switching it at half time we are always a threat when we play 442 Byram played well and Feghouli is getting better each game, Carroll, Obiang and Lanzini were all excellent as were the whole team, we could all find the odd negative but we all played our part today atmosphere was brilliant especially second half COYI!!!
I am just so happy even before we scored our first goal the whole ground singing super slav please let the bald take note
Board even !!
I think it is still going to be quite a struggle to get to the 40pt target. It seems that this season sides below 6th are in their own league. They can’t beat the top six and I can’t remember when there were so many big margin defeats being dished out (and not just to us). Our first double today raises my hopes that we can get the 4 or 5 wins we need from games against lower sides & stumble over the line. After this week I don’t want to be a misery monger about the game or our longer term problems- it was just good to see the players react to events & to enjoy some nice goals. A fairly uneventful second half of season would be OK by me! Still need a couple of decent signings though!
I dont see the bottom three who get relegated getting much over 34/35 pts 64.
Its taken them 21 matches to get to 16/15.I dont see how they are going to pick up 25 out of the next 51 pts they have available.