Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock slammed Stoke City's tactics after their 1-1 draw.

Warnock was left frustrated Palace failed to claim victory in a dismal Premier League draw, with Peter Crouch's tap-in quickly cancelling out James McArthur's first Eagles goal.

The former Sheffield United boss believes Palace should have coped better with Stoke's "set way", as their patchy form stretched to just one win in 10 games.

"It was probably a war of attrition," said Warnock.

"It's difficult when you get teams who have that set way and who are time-wasting from the start, and you've got to cope with that.

"The problem we had was we didn't keep the lead for long enough.

"You've seen how many efforts and shots on goal we had and we had to keep the lead longer than we did, that was our biggest problem.

"We were attacking trying to get the second goal, we were in a good position, and we shouldn't get caught on the counter like that.

"That was the only blip for me defensive-wise: I thought we coped quite well with whatever else they had to throw at us."