Crystal Palace were second best, admits Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson said Chelsea were the better side and deserved their 1-0 victory over his Crystal Palace side at Selhurst Park.
A second-half strike from N’Golo Kante saw Chelsea claim the three points from a game in which Palace were restricted to just a few late efforts.
Eagles boss Hodgson was pleased with the effort from his side but admitted Chelsea were far superior, telling Sky Sports: „I thought we worked as hard as we could work and we were playing a very good team who made it difficult for us to disturb their passing rhythm
„I thought they were very good on the ball, but I thought our discipline, particularly in the first half, was very good. We kept them in front of us, they had a lot of the ball but they weren’t creating chances.
„But when they score the goal, everything changes. We’ve then got two options – fly at it like we did in the final 15 minutes, and run the risk of conceding two, three or four, or to keep it tight for a little bit longer in the hope that you’ll then create something, or the ball will fall your way and you would get what would have been an undeserved point.
„So I don’t know if we could have done much more in terms of our approach to the game. We played against a very good side and they were much better than we were.“
Crystal Palace nearly nicked a point in the 89th minute when Connor Wickham fired over the crossbar from close range, and Hodgson tried to see the positives in defeat.
„There were a couple of moments,“ he said. „I thought we had the ball in their final third a lot more and we were trying our very best to find that opening, but, unfortunately, in one or two moments our technique let us down in those areas.
„But at least we produced a few clearances that went our way for throw-ins. We had the goalkeeper wasting time and not kicking the ball out of the penalty area so I suppose that’s something positive.
„But there is not very much positive I can say today. A 1-0 defeat is a 1-0 defeat and they aren’t positive things, even though it came against a team that most people would expect to beat us.
„We don’t go on the field expecting to be beaten, we go on the field thinking we can get a result from the game and at half-time, I still believed that it was possible.
„But at 1-0, we didn’t have the wherewithal to disturb them enough to win the ball from them and to get enough possession of the ball ourselves to make certain we could create some chances. So, today, we have to accept we were beaten by a better team.“
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