Alan Pardew: "I've already said our style will change a little without Cabaye, but I need to see these players, and I do need to see certain situations.
"Davide Santon's midfield performance [against Chelsea] . . . forget about what it looked like to the naked eye, his stats were very good, which is great news. It gives us a player we can put in there now.
"If we have an injury late in the game, for 20 minutes or something, Davide can play in there. Or we want to shore it up a little bit towards the end of the game we know he's competent, and has the confidence of doing it against Chelsea.
"Part of my job is to try and motivate the side with any incentive I can find, and Manchester United not winning gives us an incentive to chase them and try and finish as high as we can.
"Last Saturday, looking at that Chelsea team and my team, it's a daunting task when they're on top form.
"But if you can catch them on an off day, or when they're not quite right and you're at your best and have everybody available, then you can beat them. We've proved that.
"We've beaten Man United, we've beaten Spurs and Chelsea, so we have to try and hang on to that, that when we're right we can beat anyone and I never don't think we can.
"We want to have a platform for next year."