Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "It wasn't an easy game, Palace played well. We are not very fresh because it was the third game in six days and it's difficult to manage.

"Maybe this game is one where we need to get the three points, but in the end I think the result was fair. We have a lack of freshness but we tried, we tried to win the game."

Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock: "I'm lost for words. I can't understand how we've not won. The way we played, we deserved the points. The lads played some good stuff and it took a great goalkeeping performance to stop us getting the three points.

"We played some good stuff, created havoc at times and always looked a threat. I don't know how many times I put my head in my hands today as I thought we'd scored that many. Wilfried and Bolaise were brilliant, but my man of the man was Chamakh - he covered every blade of grass."

Kevin Kilbane
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"This season, the Europa League has affected Everton. So many key players for them from last season are missing and they have extra fixtures as well. Lukaku hasn't been doing enough off the ball. He has scored goals but so much of their play comes from him being the link man I don't think he is holding the ball up well. That is where a lot of their attacks are breaking down.

"They have players who can adapt but I think they have been caught on being too elaborate in holding midfielder positions."

Andrew Males: Only in the Premier League could you see a team go 4-0 down and leave it a few minutes later at 3-2. Crazy.

Adam Lafene: Garth Crooks, writing off a 19-year-old defender (see 16:38) after one dodgy performance is not big or clever.

Navneet Gautam: Surely former Chelsea strikers Romelu Lukaku and Samuel Eto'o, can help us in the title race by scoring a few for Everton against Manchester City today!

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Here we go then. Everton and Manchester City are out at an expectant Etihad. The hosts aren't the only team in need of a win this evening.

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Sunday Times reporter Jonathan Northcroft:

"Sergio Aguero seems to be getting better,. He is looking like Luis Suarez looked like last season. I know people are comparing him to Alexis Sanchez but his style and ability to be a one-man wrecking crew is doing what Suarez did to defences last season. Aguero blows the cliché away about big man/little man. He likes playing with players who are similar to him.

"Man City have had a couple of great results and that shows their mentality."

The teams are lining up inside the tunnel at Etihad as Yaya Toure gives the waiting mascots some high fives. Nice gesture.

West Brom manager Alan Irvine speaking to Match of The Day: "It's good that we've stopped the run of defeats.

"If we score the penalty then everything can be so different. There was a big effort from the players. Hull are scrapping at the moment, so we knew it would be difficult.

"It was a blow to miss the penalty after a good start. But, we went on and our players battled very hard, they can be pleased with how they performed today."

Hull City manager Steve Bruce speaking to Match Of The Day: "When you get a point away from home, as we found in midweek, you think it's a good result.

"But, at home, it's disappointing as you really want to do well against the teams around you.

"We found it difficult today, Lescott especially played well for them and we're indebted to our keeper. We didn't quite find that quality that was needed to win a game at this level."

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "There's a lot of regret, we had given a lot. We showed great energy levels and a a great response. The spirit of the team was fantastic. Defensively we missed start of game. We gave easy goals away. We were not decisive in challenges. Once we were 3-0 down, we had a mountain to climb. We did climb, but a bit unlucky I must say.

"What goes through the mind at half-time? Everybody is down so you have to pump the team up and make decisions to change what can be changed. It's frustrating to see them lose. There were a lot of positives - defensively we were not strong enough."

City fans could have double reason for celebration this weekend with goalkeeper Joe Hart set to sign a new contract with the Premier League champions.

Hart, 27, has reportedly been in discussions with the club over a possible new five-year deal since the summer.

But City boss Manuel Pellegrini told a media conference on Friday: "I always said it is important for this club to keep Joe with us. Maybe in the next day you will have good news."

No clangers today then Joe...

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Another win for City this evening would really make the top of the Premier League look interesting this evening...

Wrexham's FA Cup second round match at home to seventh-tier Maidstone United kicks off at 17:30 GMT. You can watch live on BBC Two Wales and online here.

Former Manchester United striker Andy Cole
Final Score

"To get 3-0 up at home against any team is good, but to do it against at top team like Arsenal? Stoke harassed them, they got stuck in. It should take more than that to knock a team off their stride at this level, but for some reason Arsenal cannot get over the problems they have at Stoke."

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Manchester City's £32m defender Eliaquim Mangala has not exactly looked convincing since his arrival in the summer and with City's skipper Vincent Kompany out injured tonight, you could be forgiven for thinking they will struggle to keep Everton's in-form striker Romelu Lukaku in check.

But BBC football pundit Jermaine Jenas thinks the big Belgian is exactly the sort of striker that Mangala likes to play against.

"My biggest issue with Mangala is that he switches off in games and he does not like an elusive striker, the sort who lurks behind him and unsettles him," Jenas explained.

"But he likes to play against powerful strikers who stand up and have a fight with you - the last time he had a scrap on his hands was against Chelsea when he had to deal with Diego Costa and he really stepped up to that."

St Mirren remain locked on the same points as basement club Ross County after their 1-0 defeat by St Johnstone in Paisley. Dundee were left heartbroken at Dens Park as Ryan Christie struck two minutes from full time for the winner for Inverness CT - 2-1 the final score. At Pittodrie, Aberdeen leapfrogged Hamilton with their 3-0 win over the fading Accies, and at Firhill Dan Seaborne's header rescued a point for Partick Thistle against Kilmarnock, who ended a run of five defeats.

Former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks
Final Score

"Stoke really took the game to Arsenal from the moment the whistle went. They got the early goal and were always in Arsenal's faces. I can imagine Mark Hughes telling his players before the game and half-time: 'Go for them because they do not like it.' If you let Arsenal play, they will destroy you. Stoke did not let them play. Arsenal will compete for that fourth spot, but the fans want to be challenging for the title. If Arsene Wenger sorts out the defence, I think the fans will say fine, but if not, I think the clock is ticking for Wenger."

The FA Cup

It was a relatively upset-free afternoon over in the FA Cup, with League One sides Preston, Chesterfield, Doncaster and Sheffield United all sealing their passage into round three.

Accrington holding League One outfit Yeovil 1-1 at the Crown Ground was perhaps the day's most notable result, while the three all-League-Two affairs, Bury-Luton, Cambridge-Mansfield and Oxford United-Tranmere, ended in draws.

Kick-off is approaching in the game between Wrexham v Maidstone United, which you can watch live via the BBC Sport website.

Daniele Fiandaca: The most depressing thing about the Stoke score is that it is not a surprise. Time for Arsene Wenger to go.

Open Tune-iversity: Dear Arsenal board: Empires fall. Change, or get used to it.

Rian Hoskins: Score is surprising but Stoke have bullied Arsenal for years at the Brittania. This is where Arsenal need a midfield enforcer.

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