Frank de Boer claims he 'can't do any more' after Crystal Palace's fourth straight defeat
Sunday 10 September 2017 17:45, UK
Frank de Boer has defended his start to life at Crystal Palace saying he “can’t do any more” despite watching his team lose for the fourth straight game.
Chris Wood's early goal for Burnley, which came courtesy of a horrendous error by Lee Chung-yong, turned up the pressure on De Boer, who has overseen the club's worst start to a season since 1925.
De Boer pointed to plenty of positives for the visitors, who had 23 shots on goal - including two efforts cleared off the line and a quite remarkable late miss from Scott Dann - but things are set to get tougher, with fixtures against Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea looming.
Even Burnley boss Sean Dyche claimed Palace were "genuinely the better side" and De Boer agreed, claiming he wouldn't have done anything different.
"I'm focusing on what I can control - I couldn't do much more than this," he said. "There was only one team that deserved to win today and that was us - although that is football.
"Sometimes you don't get what you deserve - but we can also blame ourselves by giving the goal away and not scoring our 100% opportunities.
"After the goal, we played how we can play, sometimes in the air, sometimes on the ground. We created our chances and didn't give anything away. We controlled the game.
"When the referee whistles for the last time and you think, 'we didn't score and we don't have any points', it is unbelievable when you see this game.
"The most important thing I think is if you play every week like this, you will get what you deserve, and that is going to be points.
"But football is about scoring goals, no doubt about it, and we have to do that much better."
