Alan Pardew has insisted that Crystal Palace were good value for their late equaliser against Bournemouth on Saturday due to a "brilliant" second-half response.
The Eagles hit back through a late Scott Dann header at Selhurst Park after falling behind 11 minutes in when Joshua King blasted the ball home.
Palace squandered a big chance to level up before the interval when Yohan Cabaye's penalty kick was kept out by Artur Boruc, which Pardew claims was a key moment in the match and potentially cost his side all three points.
"As a club we are going through some changes and we have had disruption this week and we didn't get the chance to do much team play and that was evident," he told the club's official website. "We didn't start particularly great and then got a deserved lead and then we had a penalty, which I feel was a crucial point of the game.
"If we score the penalty we would have confidence to step on but we didn't and were lucky to get in at 1-0 after a great save from our goalkeeper, who I felt was magnificent today. At half time I didn't want to make any changes and then in the second half we were absolutely brilliant.
"We looked a completely different team as though I had changed all eleven players. For me the equaliser was more than justified, we should have been in front well before then as we had so many chances."
Pardew was also happy with the response of midfielder Wilfried Zaha, who was left out of the starting XI due to ongoing talk over his future.
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