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Crystal Palace 1 Middlesbrough 0: Patrick van Aanholt seals vital win - as it happened
Dutchman Patrick van Aanholt scored his first goal for Crystal Palace since his January move from relegation rivals Sunderland to give them a 1-0 home win over Middlesbrough and boost their Premier League survival hopes on Saturday.
The left back picked up a loose ball on the edge of the penalty box in the 34th minute and drilled in a right-footed shot, giving Palace their first home win in the league since December and lifting them out of the bottom three.
Palace, who are 17th, climbed level on 22 points with their opponents, who have stretched their winless Premier League run to nine games after being on the back foot for much of a scrappy contest at Selhurst Park.
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TEAM NEWS
Crystal Palace starting XI: Hennessey, Ward, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Townsend, Cabaye, Puncheon, Zaha, Benteke
Subs: Speroni, Dann, Campbell, McArthur, KaiKai, Delaney, Schlupp
Middlesbrough starting XI: Valdes, Bernardo, Ayala, Gibson, Da Silva, Forshaw, de Roon, Stuani, Ramirez, Downing, Negredo
Subs: Leadbitter, Clayton, Guzan, Fry, Guedioura, Gestede, Traore
Referee: Robert Madley
WHAT THEY SAID
Sam Allardyce: "The players are responsible. The advice I've given over the years has to have been pretty good because I've been managing at this level for such a long time now.
"My experiences of talking to the players at this top level, and being able to produce a team that wins football matches and probably finish where they should, or better than where they should in terms of what we spend and the players we have, I'm trying to pass that experience on to the players."
Aitor Karanka: "We need to try and learn, especially from the game we lost at home [to Palace].
"We lost that game to some things we knew about before the game. We know their style, we know the things we have to do."
