Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I've just watched the full match replay. I don't think we look tired. It looked to me like two teams set up not to get beaten (perhaps not surprising considering it was a derby and the respective managers were Hughton and Hodgson). Both worked incredibly hard to close down, keep their shape and not allow their opponents any time or space. While there weren't many crazy tackles flying around the game was played at an intensity greater than any of our games so far(the same is presumably true for Palace) and that combined with nerves and the lack of space led to a lack of quality in the final third. I thought we were marginally the better team but the draw was a fair result.
Too bad we couldn't have hammered them out of sight but it's another clean sheet, another point and it's a distraction out of the way. Also, what a week this is: Palace sandwiched by games against Man Utd and Liverpool. That's a seven day period we couldn't have even dreamed of 20 years ago.
Too bad we couldn't have hammered them out of sight but it's another clean sheet, another point and it's a distraction out of the way. Also, what a week this is: Palace sandwiched by games against Man Utd and Liverpool. That's a seven day period we couldn't have even dreamed of 20 years ago.
