Barry Bannan feels he has a better chance at Crystal Palace under new manager Alan Pardew.

Bannan, 25, hopes to impress Pardew, who wants Palace's creative players to express themselves higher up the pitch.

"There is a new start for everyone with the new gaffer coming in and I am looking forward now," he said.

"He wanted creative players with a risk factor. We have been lacking a cutting edge and he has given me the license to go and make things happen for the team.

"We are pretty comfortable with the way we are defending as a unit, because we have worked at that for two years. We have always had that. What we are looking at now is trying to hurt teams going the other way."