Crystal Palace praised Leicester’s defensive strength after the Premier League leaders displayed a new dimension to earn Saturday’s 1-0 win at Selhurst Park and extend their advantage at the top to eight points.
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“When we lost against Arsenal we lost in the last second but I was happy, because we had a fantastic team”. There are still seven matches to go and it is not easy for us.
Arsenal’s next Premier League game is a home clash with Watford on 2 April, while Leicester host Southampton after the worldwide break.
Having picked up just four points from a possible 36, Palace sit eight points above the Premier League dropzone with nine games left to play.
“Now everybody is speaking about us”. If somebody goes over us, then well done and they are the champions.
Ladbrokes tweeted: “Before yesterday’s game James Weller cashed out his 5000/1 £10 bet on Leicester to win the league for £21k”.
However Spurs do, Leicester know that if they win six of their last seven fixtures – and reach 84 points – nobody can catch them.
Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew takes exception to Jamie Carragher’s comments in the aftermath of his team’s 2-1 defeat to Liverpool earlier this month.
“Towards the end we saw the game out comfortably, and we’ve not done that in the league which may be psychological”. We have enough in the dressing room to make sure we are not involved, but the bottom line is we need to get some points quickly.
Robbie Brady’s second-half victor in a goalmouth scramble was the high point of a tiresome match.
First-half goals at Goodison Park kept alive Arsenal’s unlikely title chances, with Danny Welbeck running through unchecked to score in the seventh minute and Alex Iwobi marking his first league start with his first league goal in the 42nd minute on a counter-attack.
They are the only club in the top four divisions without a league victory in 2016. Palace have some quality players with Bolasie, Puncheon, Gayle, Adebayor the Eagles have players well capable of hurting the opposition. By then they had survived once already when Drinkwater’s ball had put Mahrez through on goal and Wayne Hennessey saved.
Claudio Ranieri’s team were fully deserving of their victory, but Palace will be disappointed as they failed to seriously test a sometimes seemingly nervy Foxes defence.
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Leicester now have two weeks to rest, regroup and get ready for one final push for the title with Southampton at home coming up in a fortnight.
