Exactly. Who was left on the bench?
- Henderson
- Clyne
- Tomkins
- Riedewald
- Franca
- Umeh
- Raymond
We didn't have an attacking option to replace Edouard other than Franca and just the untried Raymond as an attacking option to replace the knackered Mateta. Under the circumstances that was a decent performance from our team. Definitely respect the point.

I would've preferred Franca to replace Edouard, to be honest. There were times when we opened them up in midfield but missed the pace of someone to capitalise. I think Franca might've provided that.

Great point, but was a poor game.
Ward and Mitchell both had good games and I thought generally we looked solid, although with not a great threat from Everton.
Take the point and look forward to a win on Saturday.
Saw the new manager with Parrish and Bright. Not sure what he made of it all!!

Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

I think most people thought this was a loss for us, so a great point (also keeping Everton to 1 point). Had so much going against us.

Wharton looked very good.

Ward played well, but for a few bad passes (decoure’s shot was inches away). He’s much better as a CB.

Mateta is a great hold up player / passer when he has it. Really impressed.

Johnstone is so much more composed in goal.

We must have been knackered, going for a draw and passing to the corner at 1-1.

Everton are a really big team that can head the ball well. Kind of scary on free kicks and corners. I know we let one in, but that’s our weakness.

Paddy did well.

After taking the lead we just left a tired Mateta up front and then tried to play long ball's to him with no one else around. This just gave possession straight back to Everton and invited pressure on ourselves which we nearly rode out. As other's have alluded to the game has changed and you need 4 or 5 good players to be able to bring on from around the 60 minute mark who can make a difference. If Luton can do this then we should be up to it as well. Schlupp would have been a handy player to bring on but he also joined the injured list before the game. Our bench was very thread bare so let's hope that perhaps Eze and Guehi are on the improve.
Agree Ward seemed to get the defence better organised than we have had in recent games.

Completely agree with this. It was the same against Chelsea when we took Franca off in as much as the only player who was carrying the ball up the pitch for us had gone so we then became the punchbag as you say. I think overall a draw was a fair result but they did have a few clear chances to score (DCL X 2, docoure back post mis kick, tarkowski taking header off onana in last minute etc) so could easily have gone the other way.