Crystal Palace’s James McArthur, center left, celebrates scoring his side’s third goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against Stoke City at Selhurst Park, London, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. We have to work hard get a bit of luck and keep some clean sheets.
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Only an inspired performance by Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford kept the hosts at bay as Tottenham managed 19 goal attempts before the break, including an effort from their South Korea forward Son Heung-min that hit the post.
Crystal Palace has picked up some form and they will want to build on their two wins with another as they travel to the Stadium of Light to face Sunderland.
“In the last 10 games we’ve been pretty solid”, he said. We need to take that forward and get the win. “We’ve had a couple of poor performances which we’re not happy about, but the dressing room has good talent”.
“Some of the things we have put right but the most important thing is making it hard for the opposition to get a result and at times we have made it a little bit too easy”.
Palace win consecutive PL matches for the first time since December 2015.
Some Eagles fans chanted “you’re getting sacked in the morning” at Hughes, something Pardew felt was unjust. “The media spotlight turns on to the manager when the results aren’t good”. Seeing him go 3-0 up, I knew I had to claw it back before it was too late! I have heard those chants against me. “I think set-pieces will be a feature of our play and I think other teams will have to concentrate on our power at those”. “If we can have that level again, we’ll have a good season”.
The club’s record signing Ryan Mason, who arrived from Tottenham in a deal that could be worth up to B£13million, has had to make do with two substitute appearances but will now expect to get the run of the midfield.
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STOKE: Given, Johnson, Shawcross, Cameron, Martins Indi, Whelan, Allen, Walters, Bojan (Diouf, 67 mins), Arnautovic, Bony.
