Crystal Palace manager, Roy Hodgson has explained why his team drew 2-2 against Manchester City in Saturday's Premier League clash. Man City were cruising
Chelsea moved up to third in the league table and the former Ajax star has narrated the situation in the Blues’ dressing room after trailing 1-0 at the break which motivated their spirited second-half performance.
“I think we like to play against strong teams,” Ziyech told the club website. “Everybody was hungry in this game, even in the first half. We go 1-0 down to the dressing room [at half-time] but it was more like a 0-0.
“We were also a little bit lucky that they missed the penalty. If it is 2-0 you go into the dressing room differently, but they missed and we still had faith and belief and I think we showed that in the second half. We came good out of the dressing room.
With the defeat, the Craven Cottage outfit remain in the relegation zone after gathering 26 points from 29 games
Aina is confident the loss will not affect Fulham when they take on Leeds United in their next league game on March 19.
“We’re raring to go, if we had Leeds in an hour we’d be ready to go. We’ll just recover well and get ready for that one,” Aina told the club website.
“The position we’re in, we have to just take it game by game. Good or bad results, we have to take it and move on and look forward to the next one, because ultimately there’s a goal that we need to achieve at the end of the season, so we can’t dwell on bad results.”