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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ed Aarons at Selhurst Park

Glasner’s Crystal Palace in ‘survival mode’ as Fulham leveller extends winless run

Tom Cairney celebrates his late equaliser for Fulham at Selhurst Park.
Tom Cairney celebrates his late equaliser for Fulham at Selhurst Park. Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

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.

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