I felt Fabio’s wonderful, wonderful goal should have got us a victor today.
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Ideally, they will be leaving the south coast with a win, but having overhauled Norwich, who suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Chelsea, the Black Cats boss is desperate for his side to avoid another costly defeat in three days’ time.
Pardew admitted few players could have scored Sunderland’s equalising goal. Fortunately we rescued a point with an outstanding goal that I feel should have been the victor, however, because of certain decisions we’ve ended up with a draw. We can see more and more attacking quality action with the arrival during the winter several players attack.
33-year-old Defoe as ever was proving risky for Sunderland, but he was twice denied by Hennessey in the latter stages of the first 45 minutes.
Both teams’ struggled to create any real chances in the first 15 minutes of the second half as the game started to turn into a nervy affair. It was a unusual game in which the home side had seemed in complete control after taking the lead through Dame N’Doye, but stopped putting pressure on Palace when they had the ball, switched off at the back and were punished.
“In the end, we have to be pleased with a point and I am delighted Fabio scored the best goal of the season, not just here at Sunderland, but across the whole of the Premier League”.
Wickham, who left Wearside in an £8million deal last summer, had been remembered fondly in these parts for his five goals in three game burst to help seal the first of two unlikely escapes from the drop in 2014.
“We’ve got a fantastic opportunity in the FA Cup but the league form hasn’t been good enough and we need to put it right, straight away. It was a game that we perhaps should have won, but we have to take a point and move on”.
“I wouldn’t mind being Alan now”, he said.
“And we really played well in the second half and Sunderland were fortunate to get a draw”.
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Borini said: “I don’t care if it’s good football or ugly football or lucky football, we need to win games and if we are 1-0 up at 60 minutes, we need to kill the game”. “The Premier League is about goals like that”.
