Crystal Palace 2 Leeds United 2: Warnock disputes Holloway’s claim as Morison earns point

Steve Morison celebrates his second goal

Holloway was unhappy at what he believed was inconsistency shown by referee Dean Whitestone.

“I felt some of the decisions had a huge bearing on the game – I thought I saw Luke Varney foul Johnnie Williams from behind, a blatant yellow card,” he said. “Two minutes later Varney dived and got given a yellow card, and he should have been off.

“Then two minutes later, Wilfried Zaha goes straight through and gets scythed down and (Stephen Warnock) gets a yellow – if that’s not a goalscoring opportunity I don’t know what the rules are.

“Unfortunately I’m sat here pretty bemused wondering how we were behind (2-1) in the game. I’m delighted we came back but I was a little bit aggrieved – we missed too many chances.”

Warnock countered: “Palace are a good team, I hope they go up. But I don’t see Holloway complaining with a couple of decisions in the first half.

“They’re used to winning here but they didn’t deserve to win (against Leeds). Varney didn’t have to dive, but in the first half he got fouled – but no free-kick. I don’t condone that (diving) though.”

Warnock reserved special praise for his goalscorer Steve Morison, adding: “I think he has been good since he’s been here, it’s what he puts into the team. He’s a team player.”

Palace were looking to build on their 4-2 win against Hull City earlier in the week.

Palace’s top scorer Glenn Murray added to his tally this season in the 27th minute when he took advantage of slack marking by Leeds’s defence to nod home a cross by Jonathan Williams.

Morison levelled the scores on 56 minutes, controlling a cross by Varney and slotting home his second goal since joining from Norwich in January.

Shocking defending by Palace on 69 minutes, when they failed to deal with a long punt, let in Morison without a challenge.

However, Murray levelled the scores with six minutes left with a first-time volley to bring his total up to 30 goals.

Crystal Palace: Speroni, Williams (Wilbraham 86), Ramage, Delaney, Parr, Dikgacoi, Jedinak, Bolasie (Phillips 74), Dobbie (Moritz 83), Zaha,Murray. Unused substitutes: Price, Richards, Butterfield, Moxey.

Leeds United: Kenny, Byram, Peltier, Lees, Warnock, Norris (Austin 88), Green, Tonge, McCormack (Hall 88), Varney, Morison (Habibou 90). Unused substitutes: Ashdown, Pearce, White, Brown.

Referee: Dean Whitestone (Northants).

Man of the match: Steve Morison.