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Hodgson frustrated after 31 shots fail to result in Palace goal

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Hodgson frustrated with stalemate against Cardiff on Boxing Day

Crystal Palace were held to a goalless draw at home by Cardiff City but Eagles manager Roy Hodgson felt that his side had done enough to claim all three points. Palace had as many as 31 shots, their highest tally in a Premier League game since 2003-04, but the ball just didn’t go in for the hosts.

Andros Townsend hit the post just 66 minutes into the game while Luka Milivojevic had his free-kick come back off the woodwork.

“I’m pleased about the number of chances we created but I’m not pleased we didn’t convert one of them,” Hodgson told reporters.

“It’s something we’ve had to deal with for a large part of the season. If we had more fortune in front of goal then we would be nowhere near where we are, we’d have assembled a lot more points.

“Football is about scoring goals and taking those semi opportunities, which good goalscorers find a way of scoring.

“We have to bite the bullet, we would have liked to have won this game adding to the three points we got at Manchester City, but there’s always a team as equally determined as you are to get a good result from the game and that’s what we found here with Cardiff. They came here with a good defensive set-up, a good plan and were determined to make sure they didn’t lose the game.

“We asked as many questions as it’s possible to ask without obviously being able to create those really simple chances and really clear-cut chances as their five at the back were working very hard doing a good job as one would expect them to do.

“We had over 20 shots in the second half; we hit the crossbar and forced saves from their goalkeeper, but the ball wouldn’t go in for us.”

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