• Everton’s Ronald Koeman says team have improved since early December
There were no “bollockings” planned by Sam Allardyce after a 14th loss from Crystal Palace’s last 20 Premier League home matches on Saturday left them mired in the relegation zone. “They didn’t deserve one today,” shrugged the former England manager. “It doesn’t happen as often as it used to, put it that way.”
Five matches into his reign at Selhurst Park, Palace have picked up just one point under Allardyce and suffered four successive defeats. The latest – a battling but ultimately futile performance against an in-form Everton side inspired by a revitalised Ross Barkley – was by no means as bad as the previous two against Swansea City and West Ham United, yet the result was the same.
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