Marco Silva rued poor finishing as Fulham had to settle for a point despite creating the clearer chances at Crystal Palace this afternoon.

The Whites were held to a goalless draw at Selhurst Park by Roy Hodgson’s side with Palace goalkeeper Sam Johnstone producing a man of the match performance. Silva, while pleased with the quality of Fulham’s display, felt his side lacked ruthlessness in the final third.

“I think overall, during the game, we were the team that created more chances to win. I’m pleased with the performance, we just have to be much more effective in our attack when we’re arriving in certain areas of the pitch. But when you come here, when you play away from home, and we create at least three clear chances to score, we took many positives from this game.

We showed character, personality as a team to come to play in our way, in a tough place to play, it’s always really tough to play here. Most of the moments, we were in control, we didn’t give many [chances] for them, apart from one good transition after a throw-in when they won the ball and the ball arrived on the edge of the box for Eze, he shot from the edge of the box. I don’t remember another chance from them.

We had the very good one from Raúl first half, good save from the goalkeeper. Last minutes from Willian the same, very good moment from ourselves. And probably the most dangerous moment with the three against two that we had with Bobby, Raúl and Andreas Pereira. We have to score that goal, a three against two, offensive transition that is part of our week, every single week. Unfortunately for us, we were not able to score. Overall, I think we did control really well everything from Palace, even when they changed to 4-4-2, I think we were strong enough with good organisation.”