Hodgson aint gonna change his spots at this stage of his career.

He is very old school in many ways and not giving new players an early chance is one of his traits.

With that performance I have to believe that Meyer will start in the next PL game, but you just never know with Hodgson. I am generally happy he is our manager but my word he is frustrating sometimes.

Benteke's career seems to be over if you ask me, his touch is heavy, he is not getting good chances converted, he looks like he cannot win as much in the air anymore. I am not sure who sanctioned the purchase of Sorloth but he just looks like a crapper version of Benteke currently.

With Wickham out that means RH has to rethink his entire approach and get Ayew into the mix, and maybe push Wilf wider, but lets face it, it aint gonna happen.

If RH stuck with Benteke last year, why would he do any differently this year unless Wickham is fit, which seems a big IF.

RH is loyal to a massive fault, last season with him sticking with Benteke shows you that as plain as the nose on your face.

Will admit you certainly played well 1st half and we seemed to have got lucky with the Capoue tackle .

Maybe won't be so fortunate against the bigger sides!

We came out the better side 2nd half I thought though.

Glad that header at the end was wide - maybe summed up your day !?

Honest to God, I'm going to need an umbrella with all this pant-wetting.

Ward scores different story !