Liverpool Deserved It For Pardew
Manager Alan Pardew has admitted that Crystal Palace can have few complaints and certainly don’t have excuses, as he felt in the end Liverpool deserved their FA Cup victory over us at the weekend.
In quotes carried by the Croydon Advertiser he explained.
‘I felt we didn’t put enough pressure on Liverpool. They can keep the ball well at times, and I kind of thought getting the goal was a negative, getting it early and sitting back a little. Liverpool have fantastic technical players who ask questions, and it was a great goal – unstoppable to a degree. Maybe the pivotal moment was in the first half when Dwight Gayle was one on one and if he has put that in then we would have been very difficult to beat. We only had control in minimal periods. Towards the end we had a little bit more and it would have easily been a draw.’
Despite that Pardew goes on to say that he’s not overly disappointed, but he certainly knows it was an opportunity we have missed, but the performance wasn’t good enough for him so we have to accept it, not make any excuses, and then move on looking to improve in the next game.
With Pape Souare making his debut, with the 24 year old’s work permit coming through ahead of the game, Pardew said of his performance.
‘He looked like a player that had come out of Ligue 1 French football because now he’ll understand the intensity of a Premier League game. In France, you can attack and then slowly drift back to a defending situation and the other team will attack at some point. In the Premier League that doesn’t happen, the turnover happens all the time.’
Pardew says that in his experience of working with French defenders before the intensity always catches them out, but it’s something they adjust to, they improve their own fitness and sharpness so he wasn’t surprised by the performance, but more than believes the player has all the attributes to be a solid Premier League full back when he adjusts and we probably won’t see the best of him until next season.
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