I thought the first half performance owed as much to Saints being poor as us being good and there was no chance of the second half being the same.

At one point in the second half it appeared like a Sunday league game with no football played in the middle third and both teams running from one end to the other.

We're incredibly wasteful with our final pass at times but luckily for us Saints were equally so with their finishing.

Guaita is up there with the best GK's in the 45 years I've been a fan. Olise and Zaha the best of our outfield today.

Well done Luka

TBF if I was a London copper, I think I'd have to be on drugs too!!

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Almost a third of the season gone and I’d of taken level on points with Liverpool, including playing both them and city away, every night of the week.

We tired today and suffered for it in the second half which could of cost us the game. That said we could have scored 5 first half.

If anything, I preferred that performance to a barnstorming one where which may have been seen as a ‘one off’ reaction to Everton and unsustainable. We looked the better team and I think we are however we were sloppy at times and there is still a lot to be desired not least of all some incoming midfielders.

I don’t think 4 points is unattainable from the next two if not more. Job done today, of course room for players, squad, PV etc to improve but we’re looking comfortable and certainly much better than we ever have in this PL stay.

Great win, well done the fellas, let’s hope come the World Cup ‘palace anxieties’ are at an unfamiliar low and we can look forward to 2023.

COYP EEEEEEAAGGLLLLLLEEESSSSS!!!!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Should have been out of sight by half time and some very sloppy play by us nearly gifted Che Adam’s a couple goals.

This season has got to be the most even the League has ever been so delighted with the 3 points. .

It is nice to see Edouard come good. He is looking more confident by the week and will only get better. We havn’t had a regular six yard box goal scorer for a long time.

Interesting to see you refer to Sunday league - midway through the second half that was exactly what it reminded me of - clearly we did well in the first half & Southampton upped their game in the second, we were fortunate to come away with the points, several players were virtually on their knees with about 15 minutes to go so clearly they had put a shift in (Mitchell looked exhausted) Luca had the best game I have seen from him for a long time, Vincente saved us several times - if either side had made more of their chances it could have been a very different score -

Actually before the game in the bar I was talking to some visitors from Denmark who had come over to see Andersen in action, they asked me what I thought the score would be - I said it could be anything from 0:0 to 3:3 with any permutation in between.

DM, he did what he was paid to do.