November 4 2009

Julian Speroni

Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock hailed JULIAN SPERONI as the best keeper in the land after his heroics against QPR.

SPERONI made a number of excellent saves to ensure Palace left Rangers with a 1-1 draw in Tuesday night's London derby.

Warnock said: "JULIAN's the best keeper in this division by a mile, and I don't see anyone better in the Premier League.

"It's good that nobody rates him. But he's not leaving this club while I'm manager - unless I take him somewhere with me."

SPERONI could do nothing to stop Akos Buzsaky's 19th minute penalty but Darren Ambrose equalised from the spot on 62 minutes, for his ninth of the season.

"I felt at half-time we could go on and win the game, we came back into it and had some great chances, so I'm disappointed in a way," added Warnock.

"But it was a good game. And they were both certain penalties. My players gave me everything, and if they hadn't we'd have been turned over."

QPR boss Jim Magilton added: "We were at home so it is two points dropped. Look at the amount of chances we created, we could have been out of sight by half-time.

"Sometimes you rue missed chances and tonight was one of those games. And then the keeper has kept them in it.

"I didn't see much argument from them about our penalty and I didn't see much argument from us about theirs either."