Palace stalemate an improvement

Last updated : 05 March 2008 By Michael Morris
Dave Jones made four changes with Loovens, Sinclair, Scimeca and Thompson all starting the game in place of Purse, Ramsey, Rae and Hasselbaink respectively.

City outshone the home side with a 3 - 1 ratio of efforst on goal but neither side could find the net.

On the downside it's 4 league games without a goal and just 2 points collected from the last 18. On the plus side it was a far better performance and one that should have resulted in a victory.

Next up the FA Cup. City are at Middlesbrough on Sunday with the winners facing a trip to Wembley for the semi finals.