{"id":222307,"date":"2026-01-01T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:16:08","slug":"tom-cairney-earns-fulham-a-point-at-crystal-palace-with-late-leveller-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222307\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cairney earns Fulham a point at Crystal Palace with late leveller | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a strange quirk of this fixture that the away side hasn\u2019t lost for the last 10 Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace<\/a> and Fulham, with substitute Tom Cairney\u2019s late equaliser ensuring that streak goes on.<\/p>\n

Only a brilliant save in added time from Dean Henderson and a glaring miss from former Palace player Joachim Andersen denied Marco Silva\u2019s side all the points after falling behind to Jean-Philippe \u00adMateta\u2019s first goal from open play since 1 November. But Oliver Glasner was still bitterly disappointed that his team couldn\u2019t end a sequence of six games without a victory in all competitions after running out of steam again in their 31st match of the season. \u201cWe are a little bit in survival mode,\u201d admitted the Palace manager, whose team now faces three games in the space of seven days.<\/p>\n

At least Palace supporters can console themselves with the impending arrival of Brennan Johnson for a club record fee of \u00a335m from Tottenham having completed the first part of his medical while these two teams were slugging it out in south London. The Wales forward will add some much-needed firepower to Palace\u2019s faltering attack, with the FA Cup winners also pursuing another striker to provide some back-up for Mateta having registered their interest in 19-year-old Sidiki Cherif from Angers.<\/p>\n

Mateta \u2013 so often the player who sets the tone for Palace \u2013 has been labouring in recent weeks but took his goal brilliantly. However they couldn\u2019t kill off a spirited Fulham<\/a> side who were nine points behind their London rivals when they were beaten at Craven Cottage in early December and now found themselves trailing only on goal difference.<\/p>\n

Both sides were unchanged after experiencing a contrasting few weeks, with Fulham having recorded three straight Premier League<\/a> wins since their last meeting to ease themselves away from any relegation peril. Silva insisted this week that their recent success would not affect their \u201cclear plan\u201d for the January window, with another striker a major priority given that Rodrigo Muniz is not due back from injury until next month.<\/p>\n

They enjoyed some threatening moments during an opening period that was strangely lacking in intensity but couldn\u2019t make the most of a couple of decent chances. The in-form Harry Wilson forced Henderson into action for the first time but Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez could only scuff the rebound wide.<\/p>\n

Jean-Philippe Mateta (right) gives Crystal Palace the lead at Selhurst Park. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt\/PA<\/p>\n

Palace had to wait until the 32nd minute for their first sight of goal when Marc Gu\u00e9hi was denied from close range by Bernd Leno. They were given a helping hand when Jorge Cuenca went down with a head injury after a challenge from Justin Devenny when there had appeared to be minimal contact. He was ordered off for treatment by referee Tony Harrington and could only watch from the sidelines as Nathaniel Clyne was able to pick out Mateta at the far post, with Silva looking less than amused at what he felt was an overzealous application of the rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a strange decision,\u201d said the Fulham manager. \u201cWe should not have been playing with 10 men in that moment because our player was in a condition to keep going.\u201d His mood would have soured further if Clyne and Will Hughes had taken their chances to extend Palace\u2019s lead before the break. A hamstring injury to Kenny Tete forced Fulham into an early change in the second half before Hughes was also forced off to add to Glasner\u2019s injury concerns.<\/p>\n

Mateta should have been more alert to convert a clever pass from the outstanding Yeremy Pino that would have given Palace breathing space. Jim\u00e9nez almost made them pay when his header from Antonee Robinson\u2019s cross struck the post. Leno was fortunate to escape when he pushed the ball onto the crossbar after an initial mistake and Gu\u00e9hi somehow blocked teammate Maxence Lacroix\u2019s effort on the line. It proved to be a crucial moment as Fulham eventually found their equaliser after a combination between Robinson, Wilson and Cairney\u2019s brilliant finish with his left foot that was celebrated with a double fist pump from Silva. Timothy Castagne should have settled it only to be denied by a diving Henderson before Andersen was left with his head in his hands when his shot with virtually the last kick of the match sailed into the stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a strange quirk of this fixture that the away side hasn\u2019t lost for the last 10 Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-222307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}