Saturday 22 September 2018 18:57, UK
Roy Hodgson said he and his Crystal Palace side were "entitled to feel frustrated" by Newcastle's defensive set-up in their 0-0 draw at Selhurst Park.
Palace had 62 per cent possession on Saturday but could not make it count as Newcastle earned their second point of the season after narrow defeats by Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal.
"They were very well organised and disciplined and it wasn't easy to get through them," said Hodgson. "But I did think we did enough to get the goal that would have won the game, but the thing that pleased me was that games like that can often go against you.
"You can lose what's been good in the first half and try to start to find a goal by some magical means, not the football you've tried to play.
"From the first to the 95th minute we played the football we wanted to play, we asked more than enough questions, but it didn't lead to that winning goal which would've been good for us."
Hodgson also cleared up injury concerns around Wilfried Zaha, who twice disappeared down the tunnel during the warm-up clutching his back but went on to complete 90 minutes.
He said: "Wilf wasn't close to missing the game. He was complaining about some back pain, which the physios sorted out. It was a quiet game from him today, if we had him in the flying form we've had him in and spoiled by at times in the last season, I think it would've caused Newcastle even more problems.
"But it's been a hectic week, of discussions and maybe Wilf paid the price for that today, and we in turn did because we didn't see the threat and form he poses very often."
