McArthur Takes Tottenham Positives

Midfielder James McArthur was obviously disappointed to see Crystal Palace take nothing from the game against Tottenham Hotspur in midweek, but he did feel that the side could take plenty of positives from the match despite defeat.

Hosting Mauricio Pochettino’s side at Selhurst Park for the game, a Christian Eriksen goal in the 78th minute gave them all three points and McArthur told Crystal Palace FC that he felt a point would’ve been fair.

‘It was gutting for us all to lose after all we put into the game but we go again as we have another tough game coming up on Saturday against Burnley and now have a couple of days to try and prepare for that one. We defended very well as a team but they put us under a lot of pressure , we did limit them to chances outside the box and they scored with one of those, a very good strike.’

Having returned to the starting line up, McArthur was obviously pleased about that and now we shift our focus to the game against Burnley this Saturday.

The aim is of course to get back to winning ways and continue our more recent form.

‘It was nice to be back, that feeling of playing again is very nice and I need to just try and get myself back in the side again. We still need to pick up points and try and finish as high as we possibly can. There were a lot of positives from tonight`s performance, you have to look at how solid we look as a team and added to that the threat of Wilf and Andros together with Benteke scoring goals of late so plenty to take from our game at the moment.’