It is a strange quirk of this fixture that the away side has not lost for the last 10 Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace and Fulham, with the substitute Tom Cairney’s late equaliser ensuring that streak goes on.
Only a brilliant save in added time from Dean Henderson and a glaring miss from the former Palace player Joachim Andersen denied Marco Silva’s side all the points after falling behind to Jean-Philippe Mateta’s first goal from open play since 1 November. But Oliver Glasner was still bitterly disappointed that his team could not end a sequence of six games without a victory in all competitions after running out of steam again in their 31st match of the season. “We are a little bit in survival mode,” said the Palace manager, whose team now face three games in the space of seven days.
At least Palace supporters can console themselves with the impending arrival of Brennan Johnson for a club record fee of £35m from Tottenham having completed the first part of his medical while these two teams were slugging it out in south London. The Wales forward will add some much-needed firepower to Palace’s faltering attack, with the FA Cup winners also pursuing another striker to provide some back-up for Mateta, having registered their interest in 19-year-old Sidiki Cherif from Angers.
