Three players? How do you work that out? Vito has cut vital mistakes out, key in staying up. We leaked goals for fun from the fullback positions. Both our fullbacks worked on their positioning and cut out conceding so many goals from their positions, PVA has also scored 5 this season too, Key to surviving. Our back two were panicking under pressure and making mistakes, but Kone and Kaboul have become absolute rocks, key to our survival, Kirchoff has been a revelation, M'Vila pulled out some superb performances in the last couple of games and was head and shoulders above everybody first part of the season, key to our survival. Khazeri has come in and just got better and better getting vital goals in the process. Borini got over his early season slump and brought goals and an assist in the final run in, key to survival. We all know how key Defoe was.
Three people weren't key to our survival. We can thank our team. That's the difference between our team and yours, ours stood up to be counted. They had motivation they didn't have before Sam came. Benitez had the time to install some passion and get a good enough response. Rafa inherited a squad you lot said was better than ours before the window, you then spent 80 million. He had the talent to keep you up no question about it. He just needed to get their heads out of their arse. He failed. Not surprising given he's devoid of any personality. He couldn't inspire a customer to go for something of the specials board let alone a response from your lot.