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Andros Townsend stunner helps lift Crystal Palace away from danger

how to live healthy and longevity : https://goo.gl/3L1CLn how to learn super speed? https://goo.gl/cPZGKt FIFA's Secret 19: https://goo.gl/FfPqWF The Observer Premier League  The portents for this Selhurst Park encounter in terms of crackle and entertainment were not bright. Goals – or rather, the scarcity of them –remained the central ailment for both Crystal Palace and Burnley.  Palace finally appeared luminous, a display of exceptional style lighting up the home fans with assertion and craft, not missing an important opportunity to grab a precious first home league victory of the season. It is, after all, December. Leicester City’s James Maddison sinks Watford with sublime volley Read more  Considering its overall importance in the struggle to wriggle away from the drop zone, this could prove to be the Eagles’ season-defining moment. Having missed the chance to claim three points at Manchester United in their last, scoreless, encounter, they were confronted with an entirely different and vibrant proposition.  Andros Townsend’s quality second goal, after James McArthur’s slightly fortuitous first-half opener, was reward for the Palace manager, Roy Hodgson. On another slant Wilfried Zaha appeared at times to be on a solo quest in a duel against Burnley’s keeper Joe Hart, whose fine form prevented a mauling.  “It’s been a long time coming and I’m equally pleased with the performance,” said Hodgson. “We haven’t been lucky at home. Results have been there in the shadow and they have eluded us but today it didn’t. It would be a curmudgeonly person to deny Palace [credit] today. It’s not often you have 30 attempts on goal.  “This is one we needed to win but we got the points because we were better from start to finish.”  Now in the bottom three, Burnley, meanwhile, were bereft of everything needed for survival and failed to register a single shot on target. Their manager Sean Dyche’s team are a dismal shadow of last season’s seventh-placed side. From a drizzly south London lens that heady Europa League qualification seems a world away. It looks as if everything has caught up with them, with visits to Tottenham and Arsenal coming up before Christmas.  Dyche refuses to panic. “The fear attached to football is an important factor,” he said. “You need that looseness to act naturally. That was off today and in the second half they deserved it.  “The whole team performance is something to think about and when fear comes into performances you soften.  “I don’t stare at the league table. We have to get back to a consistent level of performances. Today we slipped back again and need to find that consistency and performance. I knew in the summer this would be a real tough season.  “I think I’ve been really loyal to players but we’ve been disrupted by injuries and it affects our growth as a team. We have to continually remodel and rethink.”  After a zippy start, in which Max Meyer and Zaha were creatively prominent, Palace scored with 16 min

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