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title: "Who was Palace’s best player against Southampton?"
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type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Ste Hoare"
section: "Match Day"
published: "2016-12-05T11:26:51Z"
modified: "2016-12-05T11:34:18Z"
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# Who was Palace’s best player against Southampton?

A brace from Christian Benteke and a James Tomkins goal were enough to give Crystal Palace a much-needed three points against Southampton on Saturday, halt a slide of six straight league defeats.

Palace went into the game under a cloud with serious questions being asked about the future of manager Alan Pardew.

However, the team fought hard for their manager and secured a vital victory.

We want to know which Crystal Palace player had the best game, so we’ve set up this duel.

Simply pick which of the players below had a the better game and we’ll go winner-stays-on until the end.