Delaney upbeat despite woeful Palace form
Damien Delaney remains confident that, despite Crystal Palace’s worrying form, the side can rally together and put in performances when it matters towards the end of the season.
The Londoners are deep in a relegation dogfight this year and Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Stoke City leaves them in 19th place – two points from safety.
The bottom five teams are separated by just two points, making Saturday’s clash against fellow strugglers Middlesbrough vital to their season.
And Delaney believes they will pull together and dig themselves out of trouble.
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“This is going to go to the wire, so we need everyone to get behind us because we are certainly not dead and buried yet, we are not in a mission impossible situation.
“We have 13 games left and are only two points off getting out the bottom three places.”
“As a group of players we need to stick together and move forward after the break with our game against Middlesbrough at Selhurst in a couple of weeks time.
“The performance we gave in the game at Stoke City has got to be the blueprint going forward.
“We have been working an awful lot on our shape and being defensively better and I think our display showed the work we had put in on the training ground since the last game.”
