Gerrard gives credit to Palace

Last updated : 26 January 2003 By Gary Purvis
"I think it was a fair result overall but they did put is under a lot of pressure early on," said the Liverpool midfielder. "Credit to Trevor Francis and his team.

"They had two good players in the centre there and played three up front, so maybe 0-0 was a fair result.

"We expected that from Crystal Palace and credit to them. They never lied down - they came out and gave us a good game.

"We've had to come here and keep a clean sheet and we did well today.

"All cup competitions are massive for Liverpool all the time. We will put our strongest team out in the replay and hope to get to the fifth round.