Spurs lose to Palace, West Ham thrashes Blackburn in FA Cup competition

Martin Kelly’s goal on the stroke of half-time was enough for Crystal Palace to cause a minor shock at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini had threatened to sacrifice the FA Cup by making multiple changes, even saying in midweek he would not buy a ticket if he was City fan.

Payet tops West Ham United’s goalscoring charts with seven Premier League goals, plus the two FA Cup goals he scored in their 5-1 win over Blackburn Rovers at the weekend, a win which saw the Hammers cruise into the quarter-finals of the competition.

The French star has nine goals and eight assists for the Hammers since his £10.75million summer switch from Marseille and Collins says he has never shared a pitch with a better talent.

Pardew, a member of the Eagles’ side that lost the 1990 final and West Ham manager when they lost to Liverpool in the 2006 showpiece match, was delighted by his team’s resilience.

“We were forced to select that team”, he told the BBC.

“I have said what I think about him”.

Faupala cancelled out Diego Costa’s headed opener before halftime but the visitors could not hold out after the break.

You don’t have to just take the result and go away and hide, you have to learn from that, and they can learn a lot from it.

Hazard made it 4-1 and, after Oscar had a penalty saved, Bertrand Traore completed the scoring. You also see the options we had off the bench today.

Dutchman Hiddink, who replaced the sacked Jose Mourinho in December, won the FA Cup in his last game in charge of Chelsea seven years ago, having similarly been put in charge on a temporary basis in the wake of Luiz Felipe Scolari’s dismissal.

Blackburn did threaten to cause an upset early on as they matched West Ham across the park and took the lead thanks to Ben Marshall’s fine left footed strike that beat Darren Randolph in his bottom corner.

West Ham had to play the final 15 minutes a man down after Mali midfielder Kouyate was shown a straight red card for a foul just outside the box on Adam Henley.

Victor Moses’s equaliser squirmed in and Payet’s free-kick put West Ham ahead before Blackburn were reduced to 10 men by Chris Taylor’s red card.

Emenike made it 3-1 in the 64th minute at Ewood Park before the striker, on loan from Turkish side Fenerbahce, scored his second five minutes from time.

The second half was one-way traffic with Nigerian Emenike producing two astute finishes and being denied a hat-trick by the post after some nifty footwork.