A hard fought display earns Palace a point – that was what the newspapers said on Sunday morning. But in all honesty we all went home pretty disappointed with just a point in a very flat display against Burnley, a team that will be in and around the drop zone along with us come May.

There’s no doubt that we looked the better team, but in truth it was a disappointing display that desperately lacked guile and fluidity. I and many other Palace fans are counting down the minutes until Marouane Chamkah’s return from injury because he is a vital player in our team and without him we lose a natural link up man. He holds the ball up and retains possession incredibly well and I believe we would have got the three points had he been fit.

Fraizer Campbell has yet to win the fans over. It may be a little unfair to judge him whilst he was out of position on Saturday standing in in Chamakh’s role, but a bit of effort goes a long way with Palace fans. He has been astonishingly lazy so far this season and I hope he soon has an epiphany in order to strive to achieve better for himself in the near future, which in turn will benefit the team.

We need to jump the first hurdle and record our first win of the season. I can understand the growing sense of anxiousness.  Burnley was the first game of a vital sequence of matches where we would have been confident of accumulating some vital points - and we failed to win.

We should be looking at a minimum of ten points from the next six games and it’s a great shame that we won’t be tackling these matches with a win already behind us.  The next handful of fixtures includes clashes against the likes of Leicester and Sunderland at home, as well Hull City and West Brom away. It’s hard to deny that it will be these games which will define our season.

Football is a game swarmed with opinions - and it wouldn’t be wrong to look at the start we have made with a great deal of optimism either. For starters, we are undefeated under Neil Warnock. Two incredibly different displays have seen us pick up two draws.

In three of our four games we could easily have come away with something more than we did. It took Arsenal until the dying embers of the match to snatch a much undeserved win, we twice threw away the lead at Newcastle, and on another day those chances missed against Burnley could have easily found a way into the back of the net.

We now turn our attentions to Everton, which will no doubt be a tough game away from home. They’ve not had the greatest of starts by their standards so it could be a great time to play them. Teams have struggled to keep clean sheets this season and with our ammunition up front, it is almost impossible to rule out a surprise victory against any team outside the top four.

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