"No excuses" Patrick van Aanholt analyses Burnley result

Patrick van Aanholt came very close to being Palace’s hero against Burnley tonight, however, his injury time effort was saved well by Nick Pope.

Reflecting on that might-of-been moment, the left-back said: “I saw the space in the box and thought: 'just hit it with my right foot' but I didn’t get a very clear connection with it.”

Pope’s save meant that the Clarets held on to their one-goal margin and left south London with the three points. After the defeat, Van Aanholt analysed the performance, he said: “Unfortunately in the first-half, I think, we didn’t create much and we were sloppy at times. In the second-half we picked it up and started pressing them and playing the ball around and…