Crystal Palace: Frank de Boer vows to fight, Steve Parish 'frustrated' with results

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish said he was "frustrated" at the club's "terrible start" as the Eagles suffered their fourth consecutive league defeat.

Palace lost 1-0 at Burnley on Sunday and are 19th in the Premier League with no goals scored in their four matches.

Eagles boss Frank de Boer, who was only appointed in June, insists he will "give 100%" as the club's manager.

After the Burnley loss, Parish said: "We're four games in. It's a terrible start but we have to stick together."

Answering fans' questions on Twitter, he added: "People are frustrated, I'm frustrated, so are the management and players. We know we are better than this.

"I'm defending everyone at the club who is working their backside off to turn this around. Football teams lose games. It happens.

"Who has the better squad, us or Burnley? We had a much weaker squad when we finished 11th. The buck stops with me; I've never run away from that."

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Despite an improved display, Palace were unable to find a response to Chris Wood's third-minute goal for the Clarets.

It puts more pressure on De Boer, who recently met with Parish to discuss their bad start.

"I am just focusing on what I can control and so are my staff and my players," said De Boer. "[The future] is for other people to decide but while I'm the manager of Crystal Palace I will give 100%."

Palace chairman Steve Parish was at Turf Moor for Sunday's game

De Boer said he took heart from his side's performance at Turf Moor, which saw them have 65% of possession and produce 23 efforts at goal to their opponents' four.

Only some poor finishing - notably from striker Christian Benteke and defender Scott Dann, who headed wide from point-blank range in the final minute - prevented them taking at least a point from the game.

"We have to reward ourselves and we didn't do that today," added the Dutchman, who has managed Ajax and Inter Milan. "I am disappointed about the result but not about how we played.

"This is the starting point, because usually if you create that many chances you will get what you deserve, and we didn't.

"We have to look in the mirror and be responsible that you have to take the chances, and you get punished when you don't.

"But if you look at how we showed spirit, we were quite dynamic. What we showed gives us a lot of hope for the future."

De Boer was only appointed as Palace boss this summer, as successor to Sam Allardyce, who left the club after helping them escape relegation last season.

At the start of this month, Parish admitted that the start made by De Boer had "not been great" and that football was a "results-based business".