February 5 2012

Dougie Freedman

Crystal Palace boss DOUGIE FREEDMAN took plenty of positives out of the goalless draw away to Middlesbrough.

"I can understand why people think we should have got the three points, " he said. "We outplayed them at times and acquitted ourselves well.

"Performance wise, we played well, although you live or die by your results in this game. But I take heart because if we play like that then we will win more than we lose.

"I don't think the conditions we really a factor. When you play football in this country then you learn how to deal with these conditions."

Boro manager Tony Mowbray added: "We had a few players out there that perhaps in normal circumstances wouldn't have played but that's football and you have to get on with it.

"But that said, we did well. I'm proud of them. We kept digging in, we stayed in the game and we got a clean sheet.

"I understand the frustration of the supporters because we didn't create much, but Palace are a good side and if we had attacked them they would have picked us off."