March 27 2004

Iain Dowie

Iain Dowie felt Palace were unlucky not to get at least a point in their 2-0 defeat at West Brom.

Palace matched the second-placed Baggies for much of the game. But the Eagles' impressive rearguard was breached twice in the last 10 minutes and they went back to London empty-handed.

"I felt we didn't get what we deserved out of the game," Dowie said.

"By half-time they'd thrown a lot at us without really troubling us and I thought in the second half we would be able to get the ball down and play a little bit of football.

"But we lost the game when we switched off at a set-piece. We knew who should have been marking Darren Moore, but he managed to lose him and that split-second defined the game for us.

"Having said that, I thought our back four were colossal, magnificent all afternoon."