Crystal Palace defender Chris Richards has revealed that the Eagles gamers labored onerous collectively to cease Chelsea’s harmful assault through the goalless draw at Stamford Bridge, Softfootball stories.
The American star has loved success just lately with the Eagles as they beat Manchester Metropolis to win the FA Cup on the finish of final season and at the beginning of this season they beat Liverpool through penalties to win the Neighborhood Defend and for Chelsea, they been in superb type profitable the FIFA Membership World Cup and capping it up with a superb preseason.
Chatting with Crystal Palace official membership media, Richards revealed that they’ve been following the progress of Chelsea since profitable the UEFA Convention League on the finish of final season. It was no shock they held the Bluess to a goalless draw.
He revealed:
“We labored nicely collectively. We’ve seen Chelsea all through the final season and in pre-season, additionally on the Membership World Cup, they’ve a really harmful assault.
“So we knew that if we may alleviate these scoring objectives, we’d have a great likelihood. You understand a draw remains to be a great level regardless.
“It’s a great way to begin the season and I believe we are able to transfer ahead with this efficiency within the second half.
“One factor we talked about earlier than the sport was embracing the toughness that Chelsea are going to convey. It wasn’t going to good, however so long as we may hold a clear sheet, that’s primary for us.”
Chris Richards went on to discuss Eberechi Eze’s disallowed freekick purpose in opposition to the Blues at Stamford Bridge. He mentioned:
“We’re fairly dissatisfied. I believe all people within the stadium thought it was a purpose and one way or the other VAR noticed one thing else, you understand you reside and die by VAR as of late.
“However regardless, it was it was a great free-kick and hopefully we get just a few extra of these.”
Crystal Palace will play their first match at dwelling within the new premier league season once they host Nottingham Forest at Selhurst Park this weekend.
