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Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis says that the team has given themselves a fighting chance to avoid relegation this season after a 1-0 win over his former club Stoke City. Despite this result, Pulis says that the relegation worries still haunt the club and he will be looking to buy some players in January in order to strengthen the team. Pulis came up against his former club Stoke last weekend. This is the first time he is coming up against Stoke since leaving the club back in the summer. Despite being in the relegation zone prior to the match, the home team managed a spectacular 1-0 win over Stoke.

This helped them to move up several places in the table. Despite this, they still remain just two points outside the drop zone. Puncheon scored the only goal of the game in the second half to give Crystal Palace massive three points. The club was bottom of the table when Pulis replaced Ian Holloway several weeks ago, but they are now in a slightly comfortable position. Pulis has acknowledged it and has said that the club had almost no chance of survival during Christmas, but this victory has changed the outlook.

Palace will now look towards reaching the 40 point tally and they are halfway towards achieving it.

“We’ve given ourselves a chance. We weren’t in the game when I came. Now we’re in the game,” said Pulis. “January is just a very difficult market. We make the offers that we think are fair offers for the players. I’m not moaning about it. People want to get the best value for their football club. It’s life,” said club chairman Parish about the transfer activity of the club in the next seven days of the transfer window. The club’s next match will be against Wigan in the FA Cup.

The new manager of Crystal Palace, Tony Pulis, has Mark Hudson on his radar and he is likely to place a bid for him this January. The 55 years old Welshman has recently taken charge at the Selhurst Park and he is believed to be given some bucks to buy the players during the mid-season transfer window.

Hudson is the skipper of the Premier League club Cardiff City at the moment, but, he hasn’t got that much playing time there in the ongoing season. It’s Steven Caulker who has been preferred ahead of him.

Tony Pulis is looking to take advantage of Hudson’s situation at Cardiff. However, it’s not clear yet whether the Bluebirds boss Malky Mackay also wants to part ways with the veteran English defender.

Hudson has played for Crystal Palace in the past as well. He had been a part of the Eagles’ squad from 2004 to 2008. During that period, he made more than 100 appearances for them.

Meanwhile, Pulis who will be making his debut as the Crystal Palace manager against Norwich City on Saturday, caught up with his players yesterday. That was his first meeting with his players and he looked happy after that.

Talking to the reporters, the former Stoke manager said, “I know it will be difficult, but, the good thing for us is that we are not carrying the burden of expectations. Nobody is expecting us to survive in the league.”

“I saw the guys playing yesterday against Hull and I must say I was impressed by their energy level.”

“I have got no doubt in my mind that this team is capable of surviving.”

Crystal Palace is presently at the second last position in the League points table with 7 points in 12 games.

Crystal Palace are in a poor run of form, which sees the club just one place above the bottom of the table. They have had just one victory in the league so far, but manager Ian Holloway has said that he is remaining positive about the chances of the club being in the Premier league next season. There are a lot of rumours about the future of Holloway, but co-chairman Steve Parrish have come in support of the former Blackpool man by saying that he will keep them in the Premier league. Holloway has the experience of managing a club for just one season in the Premier league.

He was relegated with Blackpool after just 12 months in the top division. The club had a very difficult summer during which they failed to get most of their transfer targets, but Holloway has been very positive in his approach. Goals are a huge problem for the club, who have failed to score in the last three matches. It does not get any easier for Holloway because his team will be facing the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal in the next three matches. Crystal Palace brought in as much as 15 players in the summer, but they are yet to make an impact.

“I believe in the manager and I believe in his ability to create a winning team. I’ve got every faith in Ian to sort it out. There are a lot of new players and we’re trying to find both a formation and a way of playing. We didn’t get what we deserved in the first few games and that puts us where we are. But we’ve got to keep believing. I know we’re good enough to stay in this league. We’ve just got to pull together and get some results,” said Steve Parrish.