Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend has admitted that the Eagles need to improve on their finishing after missing numerous good chances in the 0-0 draw against Newcastle, according to a report on the Belfast Telegraph.
Palace had to settle for a point at Selhurst Park but really should have taken all three. Mamadou Sakho missed the best chance of the match as he headed wide from inside the six-yard box with the entire goal gaping.
Roy Hodgson’s side have struggled to provide goalscoring support to Wilfried Zaha, who has scored three times in the Premier League this season.
Townsend knows that they could rue these missed opportunities in the future and has called on his teammates to learn from their mistakes. He said:
On the one hand we have to be positive and take that into the next game and remember how well we did play, but on the other hand, it’s a missed opportunity.
You cannot be creating seven or eight chances and not scoring, so we have to learn from that.
We now need to work hard on the training pitch this week and next Monday (at Bournemouth) create the same chances but put them away next time.
Palace were the much better side and James McArthur also spurned a very good chance to give them the lead.
