There was a moment during the first half when Roy Hodgson – taking charge of his 400th Premier League match – stood on the touchline and simply shook his head. The Crystal Palace manager had just seen yet another of his players succumb to an injury after a week that saw three more ruled out of this meeting with Nottingham Forest.
But while it was Steve Cooper’s visitors who created the better chances here and could have taken all three points had a brilliant lob from Morgan Gibbs-White not come back off the post, you can always rely on teams managed by Hodgson to keep fighting. The result was a second successive stalemate at home and three clean sheets in a row, although new issues with midfielders Jeffrey Schlupp and Jairo Riedewald, both of whom had to be substituted here, was certainly not what the doctor ordered.
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