Crystal Palace will keep on attacking, says Alan Pardew
Saturday 19 September 2015 14:14, UK
Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew insists he will not curb his side's attacking instincts despite leaking goals at the other end.
The Eagles are yet to keep a clean sheet this season despite their flying start to the season which has seen them to sixth place in the Premier League ahead of Sunday's clash at Tottenham - live on Sky Sports.
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"On a professional level, the lack of clean sheets does concern me a little bit but I can still cope with winning 3-2 or 4-3," said Pardew.
"The bottom line is I want this team to always think about scoring goals. If you are of that mindset then you can't switch to really focusing on a clean sheet.
"If we'd lost three games on the trot then maybe we'd start focusing on a clean sheet and start building from there, but we have got good momentum and a good feeling. Our players are smiley and happy and we will go out and try to take the game to Spurs."
Leicester, another team making an encouraging start to the season, have also yet to manage a shut-out, prompting manager Claudio Ranieri to offer his players a pizza for a clean sheet.
But Pardew added: "We're not really at the top of the tree for pizzas in this area here. Although a kebab or a burger might go down well if we keep a clean sheet.
"I don't want to take the ambition out of the team. The problem when I arrived was that the ambition had gone out of the team. We managed to put that right so I'm not going to take it away now.
"Clean sheets are important for results. If we'd got one last week against Manchester City we'd have been very pleased and we were a minute away from achieving it.
"We mustn't dwell on that and we'll try to score two goals at Spurs if we can."
