Source: Team_Talk
Ambrose strike earns Palace a point
The former Newcastle and Charlton midfielder is enjoying a prolific season since joining the Eagles on a free transfer in the summer, and he tucked away his eighth goal of the campaign to cancel out Ross Wallace's strike.[LNB]Wallace fired Preston into a deserved lead with a superb curling free-kick but their advantage lasted less than two minutes before Ambrose struck.[LNB]Richard Chaplow could have won the game for North End in the final 10 minutes but the midfielder fired wide from in front of goal.[LNB]The visitors created the first chance when Alan Lee fired a shot goalwards but Preston keeper Andy Lonergan turned it over the crossbar.[LNB]But Preston soon took control and Palace survived some intense pressure in the 17th minute when Chris Brown met Wallace's corner with a header which looped over goalkeeper Julian Speroni but was nodded off the line by Jose Fonte.[LNB]From the resulting corner, Neil Collins got his head to the ball but Speroni was this time able to make the save.[LNB]Preston took the lead their dominance merited in the 35th minute when Fonte tripped Brown on the edge of the penalty area.[LNB]Scotland midfielder Wallace stepped up and expertly curled the free-kick over the wall and into the top corner of Speroni's net for his second goal of the season.[LNB]But they were pegged back moments later when Ambrose was given too much time to control Lee's header, turn and sweep the ball past Lonergan.[LNB]Palace looked the livelier side at the start of the second half, and Lee put a header wide from Danny Butterfield's cross.[LNB]Ambrose nearly scored an audacious second when he let fly from all of 35 yards but Lonergan scrambled back and was able to make the save.[LNB]Preston thought they should have had a penalty when Shaun Derry appeared to handle in the area, but the linesman had already flagged for offside to the annoyance of the home crowd.[LNB]Ambrose tested Lonergan again from another Palace counter-attack, but the best chance of a winner fell to Chaplow seven minutes from time.[LNB]Wallace played Chaplow in behind the Palace defence and the midfielder found himself one on one with Speroni, only to screw his shot wastefully wide.[LNB][LNB]
