Anderson goal not in his top ten!

Felipe Anderson is growing and growing and whilst various pundits were claiming he would be a massive player for us a few weeks ago it wasn’t necessarily a view shared by the fans.

But on Saturday we saw many of the reasons why the club invested big time in a player who created a fear factor for Palace whenever he was on the ball – notably in the second half.

His goal was something else and brought back memories of Dimitri Payet as he curled a near wonder shot into the top corner when some of us were pleading inwardly: ‘Don’t do it.’

Instead, he stilled all our fears by showing that special gift reserved for the world’s best players and from then on thrilled the fans with a performance which will be remembered for a very long time those fortunate enough to have been inside the stadium.

And thankfully he wasn’t shy in giving his own opinion saying: It was a very beautiful goal, I thought about passing the ball to a teammate but looking up, I felt there was a chance to shoot and thank God it went to the top corner

But he told www.whufc.com it didn’t rank among his top ten goals but said it might creep into the top 20!

He said: “It was a great goal but I scored other great goals, like the one against Manchester United, which was not easy to do, but this one was a special goal that gave us the victory, and that’s very important to me.”

“I’m very happy to have contributed to this victory that allowed us to keep a streak that we didn’t have in a long time. That served to consolidate our work and believe in our quality.

“We are happy to keep going up in the table, match by match we’ve been improving; now we have to try and continue winning.

“We always want to go ahead to be able to control the flow of the game but sometimes it’s not possible and in situations like this we can prove that the team has grown and that we believe in ourselves. We kept our cool and we managed to get back and get the result.”

And of the fans he smiled: “I always say that the atmosphere here is incredible, I haven’t seen this in a long time, so giving them joy, scoring for them and contributing to the victories is amazing. With them on our side we can go far.”

 

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