MESSAGE FROM KEANO

Dear Coxhoe Branch,
It's a clean sheet, a point and credit to Palace, they made it very difficult for us, frustrated us, it was a night when we needed to score early.
They came to frustrate us and they will be happy with their night's work, credit to them.
I'm happy with the lads, in terms of effort and commitment; I'm happy with the clean sheet and the point, but we didn't do well enough in the attacking third to win it.
We try to take the positives - a point and a clean sheet.
The way Palace played, with one up front, is a mark of respect for my players, a compliment to us. You are going to get challenges like that and it's up to us to work it out and break it down.
We were trying too hard at tims. If we had scored in the first 20 minutes it would have been a lot easier; they would have had to come at us and it would have created gaps.
They had more and more belief the longer the night went on.
They came for a point and they'll be deligted with it - I haven't got a problem with that.
You don't get anything easy in football and I told the players that afterwards. I was probably more pleased tonight than last week when we scored four and won.
We didn't do enough in the last third to win the game.
Liam Miller has a hamstring injury so that's a disappointment. It'll be a few weeks for him.
All the best,
Roy Keane