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Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City: Harvey Barnes rescues point for visitors

Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City: Harvey Barnes rescues point for visitors
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Harvey Barnes struck with seven minutes remaining to rescue a point for Leicester at Selhurst Park

Harvey Barnes cancelled out Wilfried Zaha’s opener as in-form Leicester drew with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

Barnes’ low strike into the corner salvaged a point for Brendan Rodgers’ much-changed side, who climb to second in the Premier League table.

Kelechi Iheanacho spurned a golden opportunity to give the visitors a first-half lead when his penalty was saved by Vicente Guaita.

The Nigerian’s miss looked like it might prove costly when Zaha finished superbly from Andros Townsend’s cross, but Barnes’ second goal in as many games rescued a draw for the Foxes.

Leicester, who made seven alterations to the team that drew with Manchester United on Boxing Day, dominated possession but failed to test Guaita from open play until Barnes’ late strike.

The visitors’ only other effort on target was from Ayoze Perez, whose first-half free-kick was easily held by the Spanish goalkeeper.

The point lifts Palace above Newcastle into 13th place, eight points clear of the bottom three.

A step in the right direction for Palace

Having watched his side lose to 10-man Aston Villa 48 hours previously, Hodgson may have welcomed the quick turnaround as an opportunity to make amends for that painful defeat at Villa Park.

The hosts were second best for much of the first half but should have taken the lead after Guaita had denied Iheanacho from the spot.

Former Foxes player Jeffrey Schlupp – making his 100th Premier League appearance for the Eagles – teed up Townsend on the edge of the six-yard box but the winger could only scuff his effort wide.

As has so often been the case this season, it was Zaha who provided the spark of inspiration for Palace.

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The 28-year-old connected superbly with Townsend’s in-swinging cross to power an unstoppable volley past Kasper Schmeichel for his eighth league goal of the season.

Hodgson will be frustrated at his team’s inability to hold on to their slender lead, but following recent heavy defeats against Liverpool and Villa, this was certainly a step in the right direction for the Eagles.

Frustration for wasteful Foxes

Rodgers said his team showed the personality of a “huge club” in Saturday’s 2-2 with Manchester United, but the 47-year-old will be disappointed with his team’s profligacy in south east London.

Despite leaving the likes of Jamie Vardy, James Maddison and Youri Tielemans on the bench, the visitors created enough opportunities in the first half to establish a comfortable lead.


Iheanacho’s penalty was too close to Guaita, allowing the Spaniard to claw the ball to safety.

Dennis Praet blazed over from a tight angle after Perez’s deflected cross had struck the top of the crossbar, before Iheanacho sent a close-range header off target from the Belgian’s delivery.

The Foxes struggled to carve out meaningful opportunities in the second half until Barnes sidestepped several Palace defenders and drilled low past Guaita for his eighth goal of the season in all competitions.

Leicester could have claimed all three points deep into second-half stoppage time, but Perez’s wayward shot from James Justin’s pass encapsulated a frustrating afternoon for Rodgers and his players.

‘Much happier with the second half’ – what the managers said

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson, speaking to Match of the Day: “We were not at all happy with our first half and it took an apoplectic performance from my assistant Ray Lewington at half-time to shake them into life.

“We were dumbfounded that we were as passive as we were. They were more aggressive than us and we were being pressured into mistakes.

“Then we made life difficult for them and put them under pressure. We were much happier with the second half and we got our reward with the goal. Barnes’ strike was a good goal and then the last 10 minutes were tough for us but we saw it through.”

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers, speaking to Match of the Day: “If you get the goal from the penalty it gives you a foothold in the game but we had good control and then we didn’t start the second half at all well.

“Palace were aggressive and we give away a bad goal from our point of view. But the reaction is what really pleases, some of our play and the speed of our game was really good. We end up frustrated not to win the game.

“You can’t play Jamie Vardy and some of these guys every single minute. Harvey Barnes is developing really well, it’s a great finish, the strike was fantastic. He’s been a real threat for us this season.”

Eagles’ wait for clean sheet goes on – the stats

  • Crystal Palace haven’t won their final league game in any of the last nine calendar years (D7 L2), last doing so against Millwall in the Championship in 2011 (1-0).
  • Leicester City have lost just one of their eight away Premier League games in 2020-21 (W6 D1), after losing five and drawing three of their final eight games on the road last season.
  • Crystal Palace have kept just one clean sheet in their last 24 Premier League games, conceding in each of their last 15 in the competition since beating Southampton 1-0 on the opening day.
  • Leicester City won their 10th penalty in just their 16th Premier League game this season, the quickest side ever to reach spot-kick double-figures in a season in the competition.
  • Vicente Guaita became the first Crystal Palace goalkeeper to save a penalty in the Premier League since Wayne Hennessey vs Southampton in September 2018, with that save just the eighth made by a Palace glovesman in the competition (out of 43 faced).
  • Crystal Palace attacker Wilfried Zaha made his 200th Premier League start for the Eagles, the joint-most for the club along with Joel Ward, and netted his fifth top-flight goal against Leicester, more than against any other side.
  • Leicester’s Harvey Barnes has scored eight goals in 21 games in all competitions this season – one more than he netted in 42 appearances for the Foxes last term.

What’s next?

Crystal Palace welcome Sheffield United to Selhurst Park in their next league game on 2 January (kick-off 15:00 GMT), while Leicester travel to Newcastle a day later (14:15 GMT).

Player of the match

GuaitaVicente Guaita

with an average of 6.85

Crystal Palace

  1. Squad number31Player nameGuaita

    Average rating

    6.85

  2. Squad number10Player nameTownsend

    Average rating

    6.29

  3. Squad number11Player nameZaha

    Average rating

    6.20

  4. Squad number17Player nameClyne

    Average rating

    6.10

  5. Squad number15Player nameSchlupp

    Average rating

    6.05

  6. Squad number8Player nameKouyaté

    Average rating

    5.99

  7. Squad number5Player nameTomkins

    Average rating

    5.96

  8. Squad number27Player nameMitchell

    Average rating

    5.93

  9. Squad number44Player nameRiedewald

    Average rating

    5.65

  10. Squad number18Player nameMcArthur

    Average rating

    5.57

  11. Squad number4Player nameMilivojevic

    Average rating

    5.50

  12. Squad number9Player nameJ Ayew

    Average rating

    5.45

  13. Squad number20Player nameBenteke

    Average rating

    5.42

Leicester City

  1. Squad number15Player nameBarnes

    Average rating

    6.80

  2. Squad number2Player nameJustin

    Average rating

    6.15

  3. Squad number6Player nameEvans

    Average rating

    5.93

  4. Squad number9Player nameVardy

    Average rating

    5.78

  5. Squad number18Player nameAmartey

    Average rating

    5.54

  6. Squad number1Player nameSchmeichel

    Average rating

    5.48

  7. Squad number33Player nameThomas

    Average rating

    5.46

  8. Squad number24Player nameMendy

    Average rating

    5.44

  9. Squad number8Player nameTielemans

    Average rating

    5.32

  10. Squad number17Player nameAyoze Pérez

    Average rating

    5.01

  11. Squad number26Player namePraet

    Average rating

    5.01

  12. Squad number20Player nameChoudhury

    Average rating

    4.97

  13. Squad number7Player nameGray

    Average rating

    4.48

  14. Squad number14Player nameIheanacho

    Average rating

    3.77

Line-ups

Crystal Palace

  • 31Guaita
  • 17Clyne
  • 5Tomkins
  • 8Kouyaté
  • 27Mitchell
  • 10Townsend
  • 4Milivojevic
  • 44RiedewaldSubstituted forMcArthurat 74′minutes
  • 15SchluppSubstituted forJ Ayewat 84′minutes
  • 20Benteke
  • 11Zaha

Substitutes

  • 1Butland
  • 2Ward
  • 3van Aanholt
  • 9J Ayew
  • 12Sakho
  • 18McArthur
  • 22McCarthy
  • 23Batshuayi
  • 25Eze

Leicester

  • 1Schmeichel
  • 2Justin
  • 18Amartey
  • 6Evans
  • 33Thomas
  • 20ChoudhuryBooked at 51minsSubstituted forTielemansat 57′minutes
  • 24Mendy
  • 17Pérez
  • 26PraetSubstituted forVardyat 66′minutes
  • 15Barnes
  • 14IheanachoSubstituted forGrayat 72′minutes

Substitutes

  • 4Söyüncü
  • 5Morgan
  • 7Gray
  • 8Tielemans
  • 9Vardy
  • 11Albrighton
  • 12Ward
  • 25Ndidi
  • 28Fuchs

Referee:
Graham Scott

Match Stats

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