James Tomkins was proud to captain Crystal Palace for their 2-2 draw at Manchester City.

Tomkins put in another trademark battling performance against "world-class" players, a performance that was befitting of the captain's armband Roy Hodgson has handed him in Luka Milivojevic's absence.

Tomkins said, "Very honoured that Roy chose me to take the team in these few games that Luka is out. It shows what he thinks of me and I really appreciate it. I hope I am showing a role on the pitch that warrants being a captain."

In terms of the "crazy" 90 minutes at the Etihad, Tomkins added: "I knew we were going to get bombarded second-half and understandably so going in 1-0 up. We absorbed everything really and it took a special ball for them to equalise and another good ball for the second.

"2-1 is disappointing at that point but we knew if we kept going, because they're quite leaky at the back, we could get something. And to get that goal at the end was massive. If we had come in and lost that we would've been disappointed after everything we'd given."

On Palace goalscorer Cenk Tosun, he said: "His first start for us. He's a handful at times and he'll hold up the ball and he got his goal that his performance thoroughly deserved."