Matheus Franca scored his first goal in English football to earn a point for Crystal Palace from a 1-1 draw with the lower Southampton.
The 21 -year -old – who has not played a match in the Premier League since March 2024 was presented due to the injury – with less than 15 minutes to play in St. Maryz and headed at the Jefferson Lerma Cross to score the decisive equalizer after 92 minutes.
Even this point, Paul Ouncho's first head in the first half had a victory in the first league since November 2 for the two saints, which remains 19 points of safety with only eight games to play this season.
They can now be deported early on Sunday if they lose against Tottenham and wolves of victory over Epsuh.
However, one of the small Mawasin of Ivan Gorek is that they avoided only the third team in the history of the higher trip to lose 10 home matches in a row.
Southampton appears to have resigned from their fate. He said his own. “We will go down, but we (we want to go down) with more fighting, more dignity and more of everything,” he said after a 2-1 defeat in front of the wolves before the March international break.
As a result, use the Off -FF Gung -Ho approach – but it was immediately counterproductive. Some defense allowed the recession to Jean Philip Matita freely the southern coast to choose its place from 20 yards and crash a shot from the side of the crossbar, with Aaron Ramsdale defeated.
However, the hosts did not return to their shells, and they took a surprise in the front of 20 minutes, when Flin Downs and Mateus Fernandes were brilliantly, before the latter handed over a cross in the lower corner.
He later rejected two decent opportunities to expand the lead, but not before Matita drew a sharp drop from Ramsdale after luxurious control and great shot on the turn.
Oliver Glasner made three changes immediately before the hour, but Ben Chewil, Dashi, and Eddie Necitia did not raise his side. For long periods, they looked at the shadow of the side that beat Fulham on the weekend to reserve a place in the FA Cup quarter -finals.
By the 90th minute, the possibility of a derby record was a moving distance for the saints, but perhaps brilliantly, they still want to add another, just to make sure. One of the miserable symptoms of their season was to give up again.
This is exactly what happened, as Taylor Harwood's statement brought the ball to Lerma, who chose Franka to return home and break the hearts of Southampton again.
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Southampton boss Ivan Gorich:
“I am very proud of the way we played today and a very disappointment we did not get the victory because we did almost everything.
“I am really sorry for the fans and men who did not win because I think they deserve it.
“It was just a moment.
“I had a really good feeling, then they were good at the moment, they were good at the cross and other things. I think the players took a step forward. I had a very good feeling that we could compete today.
“We gain one point, and we must prepare well in the next game, and if we play such a game, we will gain points. We just have to find a way to perform Sunday to make fans happy and try to do our best.”
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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner:
“It's a very good point, especially how the game was. It was difficult, I think everyone can see it.
“You can see that we were not in our highest level. I think we are mentally tired after the big victory in Fulham.
“It has nothing to do with physically tiredness, we were tasteful, but we were mentally tired.
“We have missed a little, but I am really happy at this point today and proud of the group because they felt it too.
“It was a symbol of this game a free kick from Eberechi Eze when the ball started to the platform and I think many teams will not return, but this group of players gathered and pushed each other on the field.
“So I am really happy with this spirit, about this collective work. Today it was more fighting for this point. That is why I am really happy.
“We have to remain humble, we cannot go everywhere and take it as a Muslim by it that we will get a victory.”