Tony Pulis: 'Crystal Palace need to strengthen'

Tony Pulis has admitted that Crystal Palace will need to strengthen their squad in the January transfer window to ensure Premier League survival.

The Eagles are currently 19th in the table and are three points from safety, with Pulis concerned at the quality within his side.

"The players have been fantastic. The attitude of the players and the commitment of the players has been absolutely wonderful from the first minute I walked in," he told the club's official website.

"We will need to strengthen the side. We need to bring a bit more quality into it and I think they will be absolutely delighted if we can do that. Obviously we have to do that within what the club can afford. But we need to stay in the race before the window opens.

"The resilience and the commitment was there. We had good organisation, we've worked really hard on trying to fill spaces and keep people in front and I thought we did that tonight very well at times."

Crystal Palace host Cardiff City in the Premier League on Saturday.