His replacement Bakary Sako bent home a late victor on his debut for the Eagles after his summer arrival from Wolves to get Palace up and running at home this season.
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It will be another chance for Richards to show his worth in taking on challengers after dealing well with the threat of Wayne Rooney last time out.
“It’s a place we need to make a fortress for teams to come to”.
Then with three minutes of normal time to go, Dann found himself in some space down the right wing having dispossessed Jordan Amavi and his cut-back found Sako.
Dwight Gayle thought he had broken the deadlock early in the second half but his strike cannoned off James McArthur who was in an offside position and although the ball flew into the net past Brad Guzan it was disallowed.
The amended law which the Premier League felt compelled to clarify following Liverpool’s defeat of Bournemouth had nothing to do with this week’s decision.
“He made a great call”. I said to him “why didn’t you flag straight away?’ he said ‘I wasn’t sure if it hit him“.
Palace prevailed despite being without Bolasie, who has been linked with a £25 million move to Tottenham and flew to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday after receiving his sad news.
His former Newcastle boss Pardew remains a fan and according to Sky Italia, has asked the Palace hierarchy to arrange a deal to sign the 24-year-old in the final stretch of the transfer window.
“He’s probably the single-most consistent player I have had at the club since I arrived”.
And six minutes minutes later, it looked like they had thrown the game away after substitute Adama Traore ghosted past Puncheon and his deflected cross went in off Pape Souare, with McCarthy rooted to the spot.
“I have been in that boat before, I have seen it. But I know how to develop them”.
“I was really pleased with the performance, but we need to turn that into a result at home”.
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Villa snapped them up as they believe France offers better value for money and is similar to the English game. We expect Alan Pardew to begin with the same 11 that began against Arsenal with the likes of Mutch and Bamford coming on from the bench to make an impact. However, they can take some comfort from the fact that they were expected to face a heavy defeat at the hands of the Red Devils but were defensively stout only allowing one goal to be scored against them.
