BURNLEY, England (Reuters) -Crystal Palace prolonged their unbeaten run within the Premier League to seven video games after an entertaining 3-3 draw at Burnley on Saturday.
Christian Benteke struck twice for Patrick Vieira’s Palace, who led 3-2 on the break, however a surprising Maxwel Cornet volley earned the Clarets a share of the factors at Turf Moor.
Palace are ninth within the desk on 16 factors from 12 video games however the draw was little assist for Burnley who’re 18th on 9.
Benteke put Palace forward within the eighth minute with a low shot from the sting of the field that sneaked in off the within of the put up.
However the Clarets fought again with a robust Ben Mee header from a nook after which Chris Wooden nodded residence after James Tarkowski headed the ball throughout the world to the New Zealand worldwide.
Palace regarded harmful with each assault and drew stage by means of Benteke’s second after good work from Conor Gallagher, accumulating a excessive ball, skipping previous a sliding Charlie Taylor after which establishing the Belgian worldwide.
The guests then made it 3-2 three minutes earlier than the interval when Marc Guehi drove residence after Joachim Andersen’s header had been parried by Nick Pope.
Inside 4 minutes of the second half Sean Dyche’s Burnley drew stage in spectacular vogue — James Tarkowski flicked on a header to the again put up and Cornet unleashed an unstoppable volley. It was the Ivorian’s fifth aim in seven begins.
Wilfried Zaha produced a implausible volley of his personal within the 63rd minute however Pope managed to get a slight contact on the ball to deflect it towards the bar.
Burnley piled on the strain within the last minutes and virtually grabbed a stoppage-time winner however Palace keeper Vicente Guaita did nicely to maintain out substitute Matej Vydra’s effort.
“It was a loopy, good sport,” Vieira mentioned. “I believe each groups gave a distinct philosophy of the sport, and tried to win it”.
Bur the previous Arsenal midfielder was disenchanted with the way in which his group conceded all three objectives from set items.
“We have to enhance that side of the sport – within the trendy sport set-pieces are so vital, and we might want to spend extra time in coaching to cope with them,” he added.
Dyche was upset with referee Simon Hooper for not performing when Andersen pulled down Chris Wooden with the Clarets striker by means of on aim and the visiting defender the final man.
“That’s weird, I’ve seen it again, two arms throughout his chest and whoever is taking a look at that I’ve no clue how they will’t see he has introduced him down,” he mentioned.
“The referee had a type of video games right this moment, to not the extent we’d hope,” he added.
(Reporting by Simon Evans; Modifying by Hugh Lawson, Ken Ferris and Pritha Sarkar)
