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Crystal Palace fans react to performance of Mamadou Sakho in Chelsea loss
Crystal Palace put up a valiant effort against Chelsea before being narrowly beaten 3-2 by Frank Lampard’s team.
Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for the Blues before Christian Pulisic made it 2-0 just before the half-hour mark.
Wilfried Zaha pulled one back on 34 minutes with the Eagles pushing Chelsea hard for an equalising goal.
Tammy Abraham restored a two-goal cushion for the visitors and although Christian Benteke responded immediately, they couldn’t quite find a way to steal a point.
Roy Hodgson will be happy with what he saw in large part of the game though. Palace can relax for the remaining games of the campaign, with the club in no danger of the relegation trap door.
After the game, plenty of Palace fans were quick to discuss the positives of the performance.
One man in particular who came in for some praise was Mamadou Sakho. The 30 was making his second start in succession and coped well against the aerial threat of Chelsea.
The £100,000-a-week ace was relentless with his defending and Palace fans were keen to comment on his performance.
Here is a selection of tweets from the supporters regarding Sakho’s latest display.
A lot better today, the engery was so much higher.
Sakho back at it, same as Wilf!
— Chrissy Palace (@ChrissyPalace)
Sakho class today
— Cam (@cam_cpfc)
Great game, lovely goal from Wilf, great to see Benteke scoring and Sakho was immense- just a shame about the result and our predictable substitutions
— paul baldwin (@Paul_Baldwin)
http://twitter.com/CPFC_Galacticos/status/1280579402166829061
Take a bow Benteke zaha and sakho. Played absolute blinders today
— Robbie (@RobbieHuck555)
What makes today more annoying is why we didn’t play like that against Burnley and Leicester, especially Burnley. So many big performances today, Benteke, Wilf and Sakho on a different level to recent games.
— Rob (@Wobinho)
I know Sakho has his critics but his passsing ability is understated.. gets us pushing forward
— Jason Baster (@BasterJason)
You won't see me complaining. We were superb. At the very least we deserved a draw. I thought Sakho, Van-Aanholt, Zaha and Benteke were class. As long as we continue to put in performances like that we'll pick up a few more points down the road.
— Nick 🦅 (@Nick_CPFC)
Sakho was very very good
— paddles (@thom_dorke)
Massive, massive improvement. Benteke brilliant. Shoutout to Sakho also – faultless after coming on. Massive show of character from him after Saturday. I still have huge issues with Roy’s game management & Luka needs to be dropped – but plenty of positives otherwise.
— L.i.am (@GilesyL14)