Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard was satisfied after their 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace.

Ollie Watkins' opener was canceled out by Palace's Jeffrey Schlupp.

Gerrard said, "I think Patrick [Vieira] will say that [it was a fair result].

"We're a little bit frustrated. It was a good battle. We improved a lot in the second half. We expect to score more than one goal and we've conceded naively on a set play.

"Credit to Ollie [Watkins] for pulling through [after suffering an injury in midweek]. Maybe a lot of other players wouldn't have put their body on the line today.

"If you can't win the game it is important to take something from it."

On Crystal Palace's goal, he added: "We didn't need to give the foul away. We need to defend situations better. If you don't defend second phases you will concede goals.

"We need to be more ruthless and clinical. We are creating good chances. We still concede stupid goals. There's a lot of areas we need to improve and we will try and do that for next season."