The football gods are a fickle lot, but I'm glad they smiled on Palace today. Although we have lost 23 points from winning positions (while Liverpool have earned 27) sometimes the crossbar, defenders' knees, keepers' elbows, and strikers' nerves conspire to ensure an outlier of a result.

Still, if effort is the measure of merit, surely Palace deserved today's victory, with every player putting in a first-class shift. Indeed, this may have been the most improbable aspect of it all. How rare it is to see ninety-seven minutes of near-flawless focus and indomitable heart.

I thought that match was at Anfield not Selhurst???

In any case, if there is ever a game I would want to win it's away at Anfield. Great stuff ...

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

I think there’s a matches/goals muddle up there

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

I voted for Lerma - as he was a stand in centre back but frankly did better than we usually do. I think he has played there on the odd occasion, but if I were the manager I might be tempted to keep him there. I know this was one match but he looked better than Richards. Reminded me very much of a certain Marc Guehi - on a good day.

Red and Blue Army!

Wharton, Mitchell, Lerma, Henderson, Andersen and all Fantastic, and best of all Glasner, a back 3 of Clyne, Andersen and Lerma, remarkable.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

What an incredible performance. First half we absolutely outplayed them and second half our defending was perfect. Anderson and Henderson were both absolutely mighty.

I'm still in a borderline state of shock that about three of their chances didn't go in and that Mateta somehow didn't end up with a brace. If he'd converted just one of those chances it would have been a lot less horrible at the end!

Most of all I'm delighted for Glasner who has really improved us and deserved a good result after a few dodgy ones. It's very sad to think we're probably going to lose some of these guys in the summer, because a full season with Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Lerma, Wharton, Munoz, Guehi and Anderson in the team plus some further additions, I think we'd be top half and pushing for Europe.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...