Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira sang the praises of goalkeeper Jack Butland after his aspect earned a 1-1 draw at rivals Brighton
Palace had been second greatest for a lot of the night on the Amex Stadium however remained within the contest due to a string of effective saves from Butland, together with from Pascal Gross’ first-half penalty.
The second-best Eagles seemed set to flee Sussex with all three factors for the third successive season following Conor Gallagher’s 69th-minute strike earlier than a late Joachim Andersen personal objective levelled issues.
Butland was making solely his fourth Premier League look since arriving at Selhurst Park from Stoke in October 2020 and confirmed glimpses of the shape which introduced England recognition earlier in his profession.
“Jack is an actual skilled, he’s a constructive skilled,” stated Vieira.
“He has been pissed off not taking part in however he by no means complained, he by no means confirmed it, he all the time stored working laborious and when forwards need to do ending (in coaching) he’s all the time the primary to place his hand up and he’s a extremely good character within the dressing room.
“In the present day I’m actually happy that he had that sport, that efficiency as a result of all of the work he’s been doing the final couple of months, couple of years paid at the moment.
“It was good for us that he was at his greatest at the moment.”
Butland fantastically stored out Leandro Trossard inside 10 minutes after which repelled Gross’ tame spot-kick throughout a loopy two-minute spell.
VAR was on the coronary heart of the drama, aiding referee Robert Jones in awarding the penalty following Will Hughes’ adjudged foul on Joel Veltman, earlier than serving to rule out Neal Maupay’s strike for a foul on Palace’s keeper moments later.
Butland, who was at fault for a objective when Palace beat Millwall within the FA Cup final weekend, additionally fantastically denied Seagulls midfielder Jakub Moder.
“I believe it’s a good draw, it’s a level I’m proud of,” added Vieira.
“Each groups had their very own half however going again dwelling with a draw is sweet for us.
“You simply have to present credit score to Brighton with the best way they performed.
“We knew they had been a staff which are actually comfy on the ball and we’ve got to just accept that we wanted to defend properly and I believe we did it at instances.”
Dominant Brighton additionally hit the crossbar by means of Poland worldwide Moder earlier than being sucker-punched by Gallagher’s seventh objective of the season.
Having by some means contrived to lose this fixture 2-1 final season, the hosts seemed set for one more galling defeat till Maupay’s low cross pressured a mistake from Andersen three minutes from time.
The entertaining south coast stalemate moved Albion to eighth on objective distinction, three locations and 4 factors above their opponents.
Seagulls head coach Graham Potter was left with blended feelings.
“They (the gamers) will likely be upset as a result of we haven’t gained the sport,” he stated.
“As you may inform from our efficiency, they gave every part within the sport, they performed with actual depth, actual positivity, the primary half particularly we had been actually dominant and, if we’re trustworthy, we should always have gone in a objective forward to mirror that dominance.
“However once more, the efficiency was sensible, I actually appreciated it, I actually appreciated every part they did.
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