at the king power stadium, jean—philippe mateta and marc guehi struck in the second half as crystal palaceester and condemned the foxes to a sixth straight league defeat. boos rang around the ground at full—time after a result that left ruud van nistelrooy�*s side still two points from safety. we were speaking about champions league opposition and the tough run we had because of the opponents and we wanted to prove today that we were growing and we improved and showed out in today's game and we did that for 45 minutes. i think very well. but of course, it's about being consistently performing over 90 minutes and we are not there yet. we are lucky that it was 0—0, it was a draw at halftime. and it was a little bit louder than usual, in the dressing room, and showed a good reaction but still, i think we can perform better than we did but we scored a nice goal where we are very compact in defending and we didn't gift them a lot for scoring goals and, yes, we decided the game was a set play so we are pleased with the three points. this then is how things look at the top — leaders liverpool do