We went into the game against Stoke with just 5 points from 12 games, eight less than our visitors

Tomkins and Sakho started a game together for the first time in the season. Shaqiri put the visitors ahead but Palace fought back to win 2-1 with a late goal from a defender. Sound familiar?

From then on, outside the top 6 we are the only team with a positive goal difference (+6)

Kind of a shame Stoke are going down

Yes we have feasted well on Stoke City.