Roy Hodgson

But we kept going and we kept trying and we actually asked Emerson to make two or three very, very good saves.

And we had the ball in around their penalty area a lot more in the second half.

And I'm afraid that's the best we could do in the game.

for the game but also for him Probably been a great moment for him and it was such a good header wasn't it and in fact we have a good position on the bench behind that it looked like it was in to me I didn't really expect the goalkeeper to make that save and I was thinking oh great you know Christian's got off the mark against a top team with a really good goal

But he's got to take a lot of credit and a lot of satisfaction, I think, from the fact that he was so close to scoring a goal and it could so easily have been a goal.

So hopefully he'll take that with him and he won't be too downhearted.

It was good to see him getting in the position, getting ahead of him and powering it towards a goal like he did.

Yes, especially the ground where we have had great difficulty in winning games.

Our record as Crystal Palace against West Ham is a poor one and quite often in the games I've had against them, not only with Crystal Palace but also with West Brom and Fulham, quite often we drew the...

we drew the short straw, as it were, because we played well enough in games, I thought, quite often to get a result, but always ended up on the losing side.

So it was nice today to turn that around, and I thought we'd turn it around with a good performance.

Well, I thought that we grew into it.

I thought the first ten minutes or so they had a lot of the ball and we were sealing off the spaces as we tried to do, but they seemed to have a lot of possession in that period of time.

But then I thought that more than aimed itself out and I thought then we had a lot of possession in the game.

I don't believe in the statistics for possession anyway, but my view of it was that we had as much of the ball and were passing the ball as well as they were.

But there were a few chances, to be fair, on either side because both teams were defending well enough.

But the big thing for me was the attitude of the team and the way we came back after conceding that goal.

Because we could have been forgiven for thinking that we're doing well enough here to at least come out of this game with a draw.

And all of a sudden you're 1-0 down and you're looking at a potential defeat.

So to come back from that and score two goals was a good performance.