Quality goal to end the half.
I said on IRC about 5 minutes before that Modric was being allowed far too much space and wasn't shackled, then he goes and scores. Superb touch to mug the defender off, and looked just like Van der Vaart's goal from Crouch's knockdown earlier in the season.
Palacios is having a great game since he replaced Jenas (injury), and has made a number of key challenges to break up play each time they get the ball on a counter. His best game, by a distance, in about a year I'd say.
Kaboul with another goal, just increases my love for him. I just hope this goal doesn't go the same route as the one in Germany. I won't be satisfied until we're sitting on a 3rd goal, just to give us some space. We've seen it before, recently even, that 2 goals just isn't enough to sit back and defend.
Defoe to start the 2nd half ahead of Pavlyuchenko I'd say.